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The role of urban parks for the sustainable city.
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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).About:
This article is published in Landscape and Urban Planning.The article was published on 2004-05-15. It has received 2027 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban density & Sustainability.read more
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Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for urban planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize knowledge and methods to classify and value ecosystem services for urban planning and identify analytical challenges for valuation to inform urban planning in the face of high heterogeneity and fragmentation characterizing urban ecosystems.
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What is the Best Dose of Nature and Green Exercise for Improving Mental Health? A Multi-Study Analysis
Jo Barton,Jules Pretty +1 more
TL;DR: Dose responses for both intensity and duration showed large benefits from short engagements in green exercise, and then diminishing but still positive returns, confirming that the environment provides an important health service.
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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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A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation
Dagmar Haase,Neele Larondelle,Erik Andersson,Martina Artmann,Sara Borgström,Jürgen Breuste,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Åsa Gren,Zoé A. Hamstead,Rieke Hansen,Nadja Kabisch,Nadja Kabisch,Peleg Kremer,Johannes Langemeyer,Emily Lorance Rall,Timon McPhearson,Stephan Pauleit,Salman Qureshi,Nina Schwarz,Annette Voigt,Daniel Wurster,Thomas Elmqvist +21 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that most UES studies have been undertaken in Europe, North America, and China, at city scale, but few study findings have been implemented as land use policy.
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Parks and people: an environmental justice inquiry in Baltimore, Maryland.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the distribution of parks in Baltimore, Maryland, as an environmental justice issue and employ a novel park service area approach that uses Thiessen polygons and dasymetric reapportioning of census data to measure potential park congestion as an equity outcome measure.
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The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective
Rachel Kaplan,Stephen Kaplan +1 more
TL;DR: A study of the natural environment, people, and the relationship between them is presented in this paper, where the authors offer a research-based analysis of the vital psychological role that nature plays.
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View through a window may influence recovery from surgery
TL;DR: Surgical patients assigned to rooms with windows looking out on a natural scene had shorter postoperative hospital stays, received fewer negative evaluative comments in nurses' notes, and took fewer potent analgesics than matched patients in similar Rooms with windows facing a brick building wall.
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The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
TL;DR: Maslow as mentioned in this paper discusses the need for creative people and the need to be creative in order to achieve the goals of self-actualization and self-transcendence of the human mind.
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Restorative Effects of Natural Environment Experiences
TL;DR: In this paper, the utility of different theoretical models of restorative experience was explored in a quasi-experimental field study and a true experiment, and convergence self-report and performance results obtained in both studies offer evidence of greater restorative effects arising from experiences in nature.
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Environment and Crime in the Inner City Does Vegetation Reduce Crime
TL;DR: Although vegetation has been positively linked to fear of crime and crime in a number of settings, recent findings in urban residential areas have hinted at a possible negative relationship: Reside... as mentioned in this paper.