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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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Social capital and health promotion: a review.
Penelope Hawe,Alan Shiell +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that social capital's power as rhetoric and as a metaphor may be of value and that the coalescence of interests in context-level influences on health now invites a revitalisation of theories and interventions inspired by diverse fields, such as geography and ecological community psychology.
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Disruptions in Place Attachment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined three phases of the disruption process in place attachment with respect to burglaries, voluntary relocations, and disasters, with special attention to the Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, flood and the Yungay, Peru, landslide.
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The social environment and health: a discussion of the epidemiologic literature.
Irene H. Yen,S L Syme +1 more
TL;DR: These findings suggest that the social environment influences disease pathways, and the research that needs to be done could benefit from a long tradition in sociology and sociological research that has examined the urban environment, social areas, social disorganization, and social control.
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Home, Home Ownership and the Search for Ontological Security:
Ann Dupuis,David C. Thorns +1 more
TL;DR: The notion that the home can provide a locale in which people can work at attaining a sense of ontological security in a world that at times is experienced as threatening and uncontrollable is explored in this article.
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Restorative qualities of favorite places
Kalevi Korpela,Terry Hartig +1 more
TL;DR: For instance, the authors evaluated the central square of their city (Tampere) and favorite and unpleasant places of their own designation using the Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS), an instrument based on attention restoration theory.