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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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Relationships between Green Space Attendance, Perceived Crowdedness, Perceived Beauty and Prosocial Behavior in Time of Health Crisis
Tania Noël,Benoît Dardenne +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the relationship between green space (GS) attendance, perceived beauty of the space, perceived crowdedness, and prosocial behavior and found that attending low crowded GS is linked to increasing prosociality.
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Tolerance, Intergroup Contacts and Municipal-Spatial Organisation: The Case of Jews and Arab Palestinians in the Tel-Aviv Metropolitan Area
TL;DR: The authors examined the willingness of Israeli Jews and Arab Palestinians for intergroup contacts during daily activities in diverse functional spaces and spatial organisational contexts within the metropolitan area of Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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Understanding the long-term effects of public open space on older adults’ functional ability and mental health
Yuqi Liu,Yingqi Guo,S. Liu,On Fung Chan,Cheryl Hiu-Kwan Chui,Hung Chak Ho,Yimeng Song,Wei Cheng,Rebecca L. H. Chiu,Chris Webster,Terry Lum +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a four-year longitudinal survey of 2081 older adults in Hong Kong was conducted to investigate longitudinal relationships between public open space (POS) environment quality, POS vitality, functional ability and mental health.
The Mediating Role of Perceived Social Cohesion in Predictive Relationship between Public Open Space Utilization and Mental Health
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed perceived social cohesion as the mediating variable of the predictive relationship between public open space utilization and mental health, and the path analysis showed that perceived public open spaces utilization is able to predict mental health level through perceived social social cohesion (χ 2 = 0, df = 1, p > 0.05, RMSEA < 0.
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