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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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"I'm always entirely happy when I'm here!" Urban blue enhancing human health and well-being in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Germany.
TL;DR: The results show that the promenades are favourite places to spend leisure time and to engage in recreational activities, in addition to providing restoration from everyday stresses, and are a strong predictor of preference and positive perceptive experiences in urban environments.
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Place Attachment Enhances Psychological Need Satisfaction
Leila Scannell,Robert Gifford +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated whether visualizing a place of attachment (compared with visualising a nonattached familiar place) could increase the satisfaction of key psychological needs and found that place attachment visualizations increased participants' levels of self-esteem, meaning, and belonging.
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Exploring the role of ‘enabling places’ in promoting recovery from mental illness: A qualitative test of a relational model
TL;DR: Evidence is yielded indicating that the various places identified by participants promoted recovery by facilitating access to an array of social, material and/or affective resources.
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Community, cooperation and conflict: Negotiating the social well-being benefits of urban greenspace experiences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used mobile and participatory visual methods with greenspace users in order to investigate their everyday experiences and engagements with local greenspaces, and to understand how meanings associated with use translate (or not) into well-being benefits.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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