1 Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC. 2 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 3 Epidemiology and Surveillance Research Department, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. 4 Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. 5 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Heal...

Abstract City parks have long been understood as contested spaces. But creeping privatisation and commercialisation in an era of neoliberal austerity heightened tensions between different user groups, local communities park authorities. This chapter provides in-depth case study a green space global city. Finsbury Park London opened 1869 the people’s with aim improving living conditions for work...

Park-and-ride services are an integral component of many public transit systems in the United States. A necessary step when analyzing and planning for such services is to delineate catchment areas for park-and-ride facilities. Previous approaches for delineating catchment/market areas are either problematic or have unrealistic data requirements. This paper develops a geographic information syst...

The cases are reported of five patients who presented to The Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham after a sledging accident. All five patients presented consecutively during the first weekend in 1997 having sustained the accident in the same public park. The mechanism and subsequent fracture type is described for each. These injuries are preventable, and increasing public awareness of the risk of ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 2 Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD. 3 Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 4 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Chemical and Life Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 5 De...

background: the objective of the present research was to determine the frequency of toxocara spp. eggs in soil samples of public parks, in the city of tehran, iran. methods: a total of 600 soil samples were taken from 120 parks between aprils to november, 2008. soil samples were collected from 5 distinct sites in the parks. the samples were washed with saline solution and the collected sediment...

The cases are reported of five patients who presented to The Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham after a sledging accident. All five patients presented consecutively during the first weekend in 1997 having sustained the accident in the same public park. The mechanism and subsequent fracture type is described for each. These injuries are preventable, and increasing public awareness of the risk of ...

Twenty-five thousand fans crowd a park in New York City to hear a popular rock group give an outdoor summer concert. In all the noise and fun nobody notices two men driving a pickup truck bearing official city markings around the periphery of the park. Mounted on the back of the truck, a fog machine sprays a steady stream of thin vapor into the air. The people in the park have just been exposed...