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Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract We aimed to evaluate the mental health benefits and possible mechanisms of objective and subjective treescape exposures whilst also accounting for relationships with residential area greenspace in general. Independent variables were objective measures of residential neighbourhood tree cover density and woody linear features, and a subjective ...
Ian Alcock +5 more
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Interchange nodes between suburban and urban public transport: A case study of the Czech Republic
Acta geographica Slovenica, 2016 This paper presents a methodology for localizing theoretical interchange nodes used for interchange between suburban and urban public transport in thirteen regional capitals in the Czech Republic. This methodology is based on the use of current timetables and simulation of more than 2,500 public transport connections between selected surrounding ...
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Advancing Through Innovation: Oral Health Continuing Education for Behavioral Health Providers
Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
Adrienne Lapidos +3 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The first edition of the Ordnance Survey's 1:2500 County Series is marked with treed areas, such as woodlands and orchards, and, remarkably, freestanding trees. Consequently, it is an unparalleled source of information on the distribution of trees across Britain in the mid‐late nineteenth century, when the maps were first surveyed. In order to
Toby Pillatt, William A. P. Smith
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What do we know about contemporary Russian suburbs?
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2015 The article analyzes the subject field of the so-called “suburban studies” in contemporary Russia. In the first part of the article, the author shows that, despite the obvious potential of the relevant empirical data, the analytical work of Russian ...
A S Breslavsky
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Different aspects of ecological systems, biotic or abiotic, often fluctuate in coordinated patterns over space and time. Such high concordance between ecological processes is often referred to as ecological synchrony. Human activities, including and beyond climate change, have the potential to alter ecological synchrony by disrupting or ...
Yiluan Song +9 more
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Inner-suburban neighbourhoods, activist research and the social space of the commercial street [PDF]
, 2015 This paper tracks the transition of “creative city” planning from the gentrified downtown to the disinvested inner-suburbs. It attends particularly to contradictory notions of community mobilized by proponents of inner-suburban revitalization and by ...
Kamizaki, Kuni +2 more
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Comfort in the canopy: How urban treescapes affect human thermal comfort in a temperate climate
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract People living in urban centres are exposed to higher levels of heat stress than those living outside of these areas; this is intensified by the urban heat island effect. Heat stress is a concern for the more vulnerable members of society and can exacerbate many medical conditions; excessive heat increases morbidity and mortality rates.
James Parker +3 more
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New economic poles in the periphery of European metropolitan areas [PDF]
The dispersal of population, commerce and industry to the outer edges of cities is, in quantitative terms, the most important development in urban areas in west-ern industrial societies in the last half century.
Burdack, Joachim
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Looking for a Suburban Urbanism?
, 2016 Recent studies have underlined the growing importance of small cities in the polarization processes in the outskirts of large metropolitan areas, and in the so-called “maturation” of periurban spaces. Some works have shown the importance of small cities as new economic central places or commercial amenities in urban outskirts.
Delebarre, Agathe, Pfirsch, Thomas
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