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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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Coastal Environmental Degradation as Communal Space, Impact on Social Fishermen Community Life at North Galesong
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative rationalistic method was used to determine the function of the beach as a communal space optimally and problems that occur at this time and its impact on the environment and society activities.
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The Role of Public Space in Sustainable Urban Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors give an overview of the definition of public space from the perspectives of different disciplines in social science, planning and architecture, focusing on streets, squares, plazas, parks, and gardens.
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Social spaces and the public sphere: a spatial-history of modernity in Kerala, India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the transformation of public spaces in nineteenth and twentieth century Kerala using discourse analysis, participant observation, and personal interviews, and explore this question in the context of Kerala modernity.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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