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Restorative urban open space: Exploring the spatial configuration of human emotional fulfilment in urban open space [PDF]

open access: yesLandscape Research, 2005
The capacity of outdoor settings to benefit human well being is well established by research. Examples of restorative settings can be found throughout history and are still applied today in health-care facilities, as healing or restorative gardens for the sick, but their wider significance in the urban public realm remains insufficiently explored.
Thwaites, K., Helleur, E., Simkins, I.M.
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Urban Open Space Programming

Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 1970
(1970). Urban Open Space Programming. Journal of the American Institute of Planners: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 65-68.
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Re-Envisioning Urban Open Spaces

2022
Cities are expanding rapidly, and the impact of dense human-oriented urban systems on ecosystems is both direct (conversion of natural land cover to urban footprint) and indirect. Human settlements are more complex than any other ecosystems as they meet human socio-ecological needs and support local biodiversity.
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Urban Open Spaces

2004
There is enormous interest in urban design and the regeneration of our urban areas, but current thinking often concentrates on the built form, forgetting the important role that open spaces play. Urban Open Spaces brings together extensive research and practical experience to prove the opportunities and benefits of different types of open space to ...
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URBAN OPEN SPACE PLANNING IN FRANCE

Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 1988
ABSTRACT Souchon-Zahn (1985) has argued that there is a philosophy underlying land use planning in France in recent years which is based on two sets of motivations: those corresponding to inescapable requirements, i.e. themes of civilisation, of progress, of future, and those corresponding to an original way of meeting these inescapable requirements, i.
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Green areas in open urban spaces

2005
The paper consists in two parts: the first is about the effects of vegetation on microclimate in urban areas. Experimental data in different contexts case studies- are analysed in order to define strategies for cooling. The second part deal with a plant data base which the authors are elaborating to aid designers in the selection and use of plants ...
MARINO, Donatella   +2 more
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A comprehensive review of thermal comfort studies in urban open spaces

Science of the Total Environment, 2020
Dayi Lai, Qingyan Chen, Wei Liu
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