Journal ArticleDOI
Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Designing With our Neighbors: the CULTIVA Case
TL;DR: The development of CULTIVA as an area for learning and social interaction in a neighborhood with a substantial decline in public space and community life is informed and findings related to participants profiles, their perceptions and behavior about community life, and the effects of projects and collaboration based on mutual exchange are shared.
Dissertation
The influence of the physical features on users' attachment to KLCC Park, Malaysia
TL;DR: Mohamed et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a study to identify the influence of physical feature on the usability of an urban park which will result in users' attachment to the park and found that hardscape features such as water features had a strong effect on users' passive engagement needs.
'You get forced to live with randoms ... and that makes you stronger as a person': Homeless Western Australian teenagers' perspectives on their experiences of residing in crisis accommodation
Abstract: The Australian Community Psychologist Volume 25 No 2 December 2013 © The Australian Psychological Society Ltd Even though youth homelessness is a global phenomenon, accurate counts of homelessness are exceedingly difficult to collect. Notwithstanding this difficulty, it is conservatively estimated that in Australia somewhere between 22,000 and 40,000 12 to 18 year old youths are homeless on any given night (Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS], 2011). Furthermore, it is anticipated that half of all Australia’s homeless youths will access crisis accommodation on one or more occasion over the course of their period of homelessness (ABS, 2011; Chamberlain & MacKenzie, 2008). One purported reason for the high rate of youth homeless is that adolescence is the developmental period in which young people first become capable of looking after themselves outside of the confines of the family home. Of growing concern to the Australian Government is the realisation that, in 2008, 14% of all withinschool adolescents in the state of Victoria were found to be at-risk for homelessness (Bearsley-Smith, Bond, Littlefield, & Thomas, 2008). Historically, a formal definition of homelessness has also been difficult to formulate due to the heterogeneity of the homeless population and the temporal nature of the homelessness experience (Rossi, 1989). However, this situation changed somewhat in 1992 when Chamberlain and MacKenzie conceptualised a two-tiered (primary and secondary) definition of homelessness, which is now widely accepted. They conceptualised primary homelessness to be a habitation state in which individuals lack any form of permanent accommodation and, thus, routinely shelter/sleep in dilapidated buildings or public spaces. In contrast, they conceptualised secondary homelessness to be a habitation state in which individuals sleep/reside in transient or temporary accommodation, including, formal crisis accommodation and informal ‘couchsurfing’ in the homes of extended family members/friends. However, Chamberlain and MacKenzie’s classification does not fully capture the complexity of displacement that can occur within different cultural groupings. For example, Memmott and colleagues (2005), in their examination of homelessness within Australia’s Indigenous population, identified three distinct categories of ‘You get forced to live with randoms ... and that makes you stronger as a person’: Homeless Western Australian teenagers’ perspectives on their experiences of residing in crisis accommodation
Journal ArticleDOI
Ageing well? Older Adults’ Stories of Life Transitions and Serious Leisure
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present a case study that traces the author's evolutionary path from a post in full-time teaching and management to lifestyle entrepreneurship as an exercise instructor for older adults.
Measuring social sustainability of the public realm : design of street frontages as a precondition for social sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Lay summary and a Table of Content (Table of Content) of the article. And a List of Figures (table of figures) of interest.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
Book
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
TL;DR: Putnam as mentioned in this paper showed that changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's roles and other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society.
Book
Foundations of Social Theory
TL;DR: In this article, a new approach to describing both stability and change in social systems by linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior is proposed. But the approach is not suitable for large-scale systems.
Book
The consequences of modernity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Phenomonology of modernity and post-modernity in the context of trust in abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy in the modern world.
Book
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
TL;DR: The conditions for city diversity, the generators of diversity, and the need for mixed primary uses are discussed in this paper, with a focus on the use of small blocks for small blocks.