Urban green spaces provide an array of benefits, or ecosystem services, that support our physical, psychological, and social health. In many cases, however, these benefits are not equitably distributed across diverse urban populations. In this paper, we explore relationships between cultural ecosystem services provided by urban green space and the social determinants of health outlined in the U...

BACKGROUND Low physical activity levels and high levels of sedentary time among adolescents call for population wide interventions. Public open spaces can be important locations for adolescents' physical activity. This study aimed to describe the prevalence, frequency and context of public open space visitation and to gain insight into the individual, social and physical environmental factors a...

This study reviews scholarly papers and case studies on urban vacant land to gain a stronger understanding of its public value in terms of the ecological and social benefits it can bring. This literature review offers a conceptual overview of the potential benefits of vacant land with the goal of addressing gaps in knowledge about vacant land and to provide suggestions to planners and designers...

one of the most important sectors of each city where the citizens social interaction occur and urban life flow carry, are public spaces. one conditions for people presence in these spaces is securing their social security sense. nowadays different factors such as cultural, social, economic and physical in cities public spaces, especially in big cities like tehran, have cause abnormal social beh...

Public spaces connect people in their everyday life and foster the growth of communities by providing a common space for people to bond and interact. However, while different communities or social groups may share the same public space, they may not interact between each other due to perceived differences or prejudices. At the other end of the spectrum, members of the same community or social g...

In the emerging network society, the continuous homogenisation of the city leads to an anesthetization of the public realm due to the expulsion of every possible element of friction and conflict that we assume to be essential in the concept of vital urbanity and public domain. Interactions and exchange are instead suppressed in the “new public spaces”: places oriented towards consumption and wh...

feedback and visual feedback versus audio feedback. 4.1. Directional versus scattered feedback Directional feedback is the mechanism whereby some interfaces yield clear and unambiguous responses to specific participants, creating the illusion of a strong mapping between physical movements (enacted with their bodies or remotely with mobile devices) and their digital counterparts. As a consequenc...

safety is one of the life necessities and fundamental human rights and it is a prerequisite for improvement of people welfare and health. safety improvement is in a direct relationship with mental calmness and also with senses of places to life environment. although the importance of safety factors for everybody, researches show that sensitivity or safety level for some kinds of age and sex gro...