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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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Come take a walk with me: the "go-along" interview as a novel method for studying the implications of place for health and well-being.
TL;DR: This paper aims to serve as a four-part introductory primer on the "go-along" qualitative interview methodology for studying the health issues of neighborhood or local-area contexts by considering the method's strengths and limitations for population health research on neighborhoods and local areas.
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The Relationship between Social Cohesion and Urban Green Space: An Avenue for Health Promotion.
TL;DR: How positive interactions in urban green space can catalyze social cohesion, social capital and critical health-promoting behaviors that may enhance psychological health and well-being is discussed.
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The contribution of local parks to neighbourhood social ties.
TL;DR: It is concluded that for inner-city parks to realise their full potential in supporting social interactions and developing social ties, they need to be well-maintained and provide good recreational facilities.
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Quality or quantity? Exploring the relationship between Public Open Space attributes and mental health in Perth, Western Australia.
TL;DR: From a mental health perspective, POS quality within a neighbourhood appears to be more important than POS quantity, and this finding has policy implications and warrants further investigation.
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Neighbouring in Later Life: The Influence of Socio-Economic Resources, Gender and Household Composition on Neighbourly Relationships
TL;DR: In this article, positive neighbourly relationships offer sociability and the opportunity to give and receive practical support, and this mode of social interaction may be particularly important in later life, when peo...
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The business of apocalypse: Robert Putnam and diversity
Peter Hallberg,Joshua Lund +1 more
TL;DR: The work of political scientist Robert Putnam on social capital and community values and their relationship to diversity, or racialised difference, has been heavily popularised, feeding into the... as discussed by the authors.
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Methodological Pluralism, British Sociology and the Evidence-based State A Reply to Payne et al.
TL;DR: Payne et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted a survey of published contributions by British sociologists in four British general sociological journals and one specialist journal in the years 1999 and 2000; and 102 abstracts submitted to the 2000 British Sociological Association Conference.