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Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations
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Different users of public spaces attain a sense of well- being for different reasons: the paper calls for policy approaches in which the social and therapeutic properties of a range of everyday spaces are more widely recognised and nurtured.About:
This article is published in Health & Place.The article was published on 2008-09-01. It has received 418 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sense of community & Social relation.read more
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Nightlife and public spaces in urban villages: A case study of the Pearl River Delta in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the characteristics of nightlife in urban villages, and tried to identify the factors that influence the use of public spaces at nighttime, and proposed four design strategies for improving the everyday public spaces in urban village at nighttime.
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Urban blue space renovation and local resident and visitor well-being: A case study from Plymouth, UK
Nicole van den Bogerd,Lewis R. Elliott,Mathew P. White,Himansu S. Mishra,Simon Bell,Simon Bell,Miriam Porter,Zoe Sydenham,Joanne K. Garrett,Lora E. Fleming +9 more
TL;DR: This article conducted a repeat cross-sectional study exploring local resident and visitor well-being before and after a small-scale intervention aimed at improving the quality of an urban beach area in a deprived neighbourhood in Plymouth, United Kingdom.
Public open space’s contribution to quality of life : does privatisation matters? / Achmad Delianur Nasution and Wahyuni Zahrah
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how privatization of public open space affects quality of life of people while many studies show degradation of publicness' of public space due to privatization and found that people keep doing their social activities both in privatized and public area but physically segregated.
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Using micro-geography to understand the realisation of wellbeing: a qualitative GIS study of three social enterprises
Jane Farmer,Peter Kamstra,Christopher R Brennan-Horley,Tracy De Cotta,Michael J. Roy,Jo Barraket,Sarah-Anne Munoz,Sue Kilpatrick +7 more
TL;DR: By mapping the sites within a social enterprise where wellbeing is realised, this study provides a practical, empirical and replicable methodology that is useful for gaining insights into where and how wellbeing realisation occurs.
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Pursuing security: economic resources and the ontological security of older New Zealanders
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analysed 145 qualitative interviews with New Zealanders aged 63-93 in order to explore how participants understand ontological security and found that varying levels of access to economic resources were associated with differing abilities of participants to manage the unpredictability of everyday life.
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