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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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Is social capital higher in areas with a higher density of historic assets? Analyses of 11,112 adults living in England.
TL;DR: This article explored the cross-sectional relationship between historic built environment and social capital and found that people living in places with greater historic built environments experienced higher levels of personal relationships, social network support, civic engagement, and trust and cooperative norms.
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Meaningless vs. Worthwhile Encounters?: Sustaining Social Interactions in Privatized Public Spaces of Manila Shopping Malls
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of three shopping malls in the city of Manila in the Philippines was conducted to determine the circumstances under which spatial governmentality sustains social interaction, and the cases involved in this study reveal that efforts to control social activities in mall premises can also generate unintended outcomes that activate social activities.
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Can shopping centres foster wellbeing? A scoping review of motivations and positive experiences associated with non-shopping visits
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The Urban-Rural Divide and Residential Contentment as Antecedents of Political Ideology
James G. Gimpel,Andrew P. Reeves +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the foundations of the well-documented urban-rural political gulf in the United States and other western democracies, theorizing that it is anchored in the variable extent of residents' satisfaction and place attachment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.