Major Indian cities have a lower public open space (POS)-capita ratio and do not meet national international standards. Moreover, factors such as lack of design guidelines for POSs, limited funding, participation affected these limitedly available POSs made them ineffective incapable meeting the contemporary needs diverse range users. Therefore, it is essential to make only inclusive, user-frie...

There are two central topics in this study: the first topic relates to physical space created by skateboarding, while other social capital derived from skateboard culture. The paper analyzes case studies of three skate parks, which theme inclusion is theoretical framework. Looking through history skateboarding and integration parks as a part urban environment, concerned with bringing openness t...

T. Ruan, R. M. B. Young, P. L. Read, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK ([email protected]), S. R. Lewis, School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK, L. Montabone, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics,...

1042 Private property, including intellectual property, is essential to our way of life. It provides an incentive for investment and innovation; it stimulates the flourishing of our culture; it protects the moral entitlements of people to the fruits of their labors. But reducing too much to private property can be bad medicine. Private land, for instance, is far more useful if separated from ot...

In this article I explore community access-primarily the lack thereof-for persons with disabling environmental sensitivities (ESs). Respondents with chemical and electrical sensitivities described their level of access to common community resources that most persons take for granted, including communities of worship, grocery stores, health food stores, community meetings, public libraries, the ...

All those who have had the opportunity to enter Yellowstone National Park through its north entrance have been met with the unmistakable Roosevelt Arch. Its message represents to all visitors a critical mandate of the national park system: “For the benefit and enjoyment of the people.” However, this is not the only imperative for the national park system and its managers. The 1916 Organic Act a...