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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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Local Community Experience as an Anchor Sustaining Reorientation Processes during COVID-19 Pandemic
Flora Gatti,Fortuna Procentese +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated young citizens' experiences of and attitudes towards their local communities of belonging after ten months of alternatively strict and partially eased restrictions, and found that the communities may have worked as anchors to which young citizens clung as an attempt not to be overwhelmed by the disorientation brought about by the loss of their daily life.
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Analysis of urban coffeehouses in the context of public space theories
Abstract: ANALYSIS OF URBAN COFFEEHOUSES IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC SPACE THEORIES This thesis, with its general scope, aims to investigate the position of the public space, in the socio-cultural context. For this research, coffee houses are examined as micro public spaces. In doing so, this study reveals two different literature review. The first literature is an examination of the emergence of coffeehouses in history. Since its discovery, coffee has become a popular consumer good that has had a global value, and coffee consumption has become one of our everyday practices with its tagged along routines. This daily practice has created its spatial types of space and has led coffeehouses and cafes to emerge in different forms in many geographies. The second literature survey includes different descriptions and classifications of public space. Since public space research is the product of an interdisciplinary field, there are different definitions and various theoretical approaches to the public space. While correlating the two literature review, this thesis investigates the relationship between public space and coffeehouses also in two main contexts which are the political and social examination of the public space. Collaterally, coffeehouses were also studied through these two contexts. In other words, this study aims deal coffeehouses as micro-public spaces with these two different contexts to reveal their various forms in different histories and geographies. In the last chapter, this thesis concluded that coffeehouses were transformed in parallel with the changes in public space and social structure and since the day they opened they received many different public practices due to their pluralistic pattern.
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Evaluating the uses and environmental characteristics of 40 public parks and squares in Barcelona by means of systematic observation / Evaluación de los usos y características ambientales de 40 parques y plazas en Barcelona mediante observación sistemática
TL;DR: In this article, an ad hoc instrument for the observation and recording of public space usage based on the combination of field formats and category systems is presented, called EXOdES (Observational Examinatio...
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Using Systematic Observations to Understand Conditions that Promote Interracial Experiences in Neighbourhood Parks
Amy Hillier,Bing Han,Theodore S. Eisenman,Kelly R. Evenson,Thomas L. McKenzie,Deborah A. Cohen +5 more
TL;DR: Park areas that were supervised, had one or more people engaged in vigorous activity, had at least one male and one female present, and had one more teens present were significantly more likely to involve interracial groups.
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Empirical evidence of the roles of public spaces and public activities in the promotion of community relations and sense of place in a coastal community
Janmaimool Piyapong,Ratanavilaisakul Riruengrong,Iemworamate Wipawee,Nunsunanon Siriphan,Assavarak Passanan +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how activities in public spaces can foster community relations, thereby affecting sense of place, and described how public spaces are used by local residents in Ban-Chaytalae community in Thailand.
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