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The contribution of local parks to neighbourhood social ties.
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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.About:
This article is published in Landscape and Urban Planning.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 325 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Interpersonal ties & Neighbourhood (mathematics).read more
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Nature and Health
TL;DR: This work focuses on nature as represented by aspects of the physical environment relevant to planning, design, and policy measures that serve broad segments of urbanized societies and considers research on pathways between nature and health involving air quality, physical activity, social cohesion, and stress reduction.
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Challenges and strategies for urban green-space planning in cities undergoing densification: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of urban densification and compact city development on urban green space and its planning are discussed. But, the literature on the compact city approach often lacks specific suggestions for urban green spaces conservation and planning.
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Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda
Howard Frumkin,Gregory N. Bratman,Sara Jo Breslow,Bobby Cochran,Peter H. Kahn,Joshua J. Lawler,Phillip S. Levin,Phillip S. Levin,Pooja S. Tandon,Pooja S. Tandon,Usha Varanasi,Kathleen L. Wolf,Kathleen L. Wolf,Spencer A. Wood,Spencer A. Wood +14 more
TL;DR: A research agenda on nature contact and health is proposed, identifying principal domains of research and key questions that, if answered, would provide the basis for evidence-based public health interventions.
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Mitigating and adapting to climate change: Multi-functional and multi-scale assessment of green urban infrastructure
Matthias Demuzere,Kati Orru,Kati Orru,Oliver Heidrich,Eduardo Olazabal,Davide Geneletti,Hans Orru,Ajay Gajanan Bhave,Neha Mittal,Efren Feliu,Maija Faehnle +10 more
TL;DR: A framework of ecosystem services is suggested for systematizing the evidence on the provision of bio-physical benefits as well as social and psychological benefits that enable coping with or reducing the adverse effects of climate change.
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Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas
Thomas Elmqvist,Heikki Setälä,Steven N. Handel,S. van der Ploeg,James Aronson,James Aronson,James Nelson Blignaut,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,David J. Nowak,Jakub Kronenberg,R. de Groot +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of an analysis of benefits of ecosystem services in urban areas and show that investing in ecological infrastructure in cities, and the ecological restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystems such as rivers, lakes, and woodlands occurring in urban area, may not only be ecologically and socially desirable, but also quite often, economically advantageous, even based on the most traditional economic approaches.
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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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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.
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander,Sara Ishikawa,Murray Silverstein,Max Jacobson,Ingrid Fiksdahl-King,Shlomo Angel +5 more
TL;DR: This book will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment, which will replace existing ideas and practices entirely.
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The role of urban parks for the sustainable city.
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of urban nature for citizens' well-being and for the sustainability of the city they inhabit is discussed, based on a survey conducted among visitors of an urban park in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
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Life between buildings: Using public space
TL;DR: The first Danish language version of this book, published in 1971, was very much a protest against the functionalistic principles for planning cities and residential areas that prevailed during that period, and pointed to the life between buildings as a dimension of architecture that needs to be carefully treated as mentioned in this paper.