Does public space have to be green to improve well-being? An analysis of public space across Greater London and its association to subjective well-being

Holy-Hasted, William; Burchell, Brendan

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.103569

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“…Research on the impact of the built environments on individual health primarily stems from urban planning and geography. Among them, green space as an important part of the urban built environment, and a large number of studies have shown that urban green space promotes the residents’ health by enhancing physical health perception and reducing the incidence of respiratory diseases ( 25 ).…”

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Sponge city construction and population health

2024

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionThis paper focuses on the construction of sponge cities and their effects on population health. Sponge cities in China both solve stormwater problems and are a systemic transformation in the urban construction paradigm, addressing related issues arising from high-speed urbanization. Whether sponge city construction in China can promote population health has received scant attention. Most previous studies have focused on urban environments and population health, with few exploring the potential effects on population health caused by urban environment changes due to urban policies. This study hypothesizes that sponge city construction improves the urban environment, and thus, population health.MethodsUsing panel data from 119 prefecture-level cities between 2011 and 2019 and the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), based on China’s sponge city pilot policy, a quasi-natural experiment is conducted using Difference-in-Differences (DID) model to identify the health effects of the sponge city policy.ResultsThe findings show that sponge city pilot policy not only reduced ecological environment pollution and promoted the quality of built environment, but also significantly improved population health by 10.4%. This mechanism is mainly due to the restorative effects of the built environment.DiscussionThe health effects vary across city administrative levels, and especially among non-older adults and local populations. Compared with the cities at higher administrative level, the health effect in lower administrative level is significantly positive, indicating that there is a diminishing marginal effect of sponge city construction. This study extends the causal identification chain of the impact of urban environment on population health to urban policies and provide insights into policy objectives for sponge city construction.

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Sponge city construction and population health

2024

Front. Public Health

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“…Thus, community leaders and non-profit organizations must take action to plan projects of collecting and producing local databases in participatory approaches to dialogue urban disputes with the government and private companies. (Rohde 2022). However, during that same time the city has witnessed a decline in affordable housing opportunities and a transformation in the local economy that has not benefited all residents.…”

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A Manifesto for the Just City: Volume 3

Rocco,

Newton

2023

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This is the third volume in the "Manifesto for the Just City" series published by TU Delft OPEN Publishing. This is a project spearheaded by the Centre for the Just City at the Delft University of Technology. The Manifestos in this book endeavour to envision alternative, positive urban futures as a counterpoint to prevailing cynicism and political disillusionment. This exercise is largely based on the ideas of Professor Faranak Miraftab on practices of hope and decoloniality. The 81 Manifestos written by 313 students from 63 universities around the world come in the wake of a four-part workshop in October 2022, in which TU Deft together with its many partners, invites students from all over the world to listen to the accounts of leading academics and practitioners whose knowledge touches aspects of spatial justice and to articulate their own ideas for what makes the just city. The scholars invited in 2022 included Professor Faranak Miraftab from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US, Professor Clarissa Freitas from the Federal University of Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil, Dr. Gynna Millan Franco from the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, Professor Vanessa Castán Broto from the University of Sheffield in the UK and Professor Hiba Bou Akar from Columbia University in New York, US. Teachers from around the world who use the Manifesto as a class exercise have also contributed with short essays. The Centre for the Just City was set up at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the Delft University of Technology in response to the pressing challenges of rampant social inequalities affecting the cohesion and the sustainability of cities and communities. Recognising the vital need to address these issues, the Centre emerged as a platform for research, education, and outreach activities for the creation of just cities. Since its inception, the Centre has been at the forefront of bridging theory and practice, fostering collaborations, and influencing policies and actions that contribute to making cities equitable, sustainable, and inclusive. For more information, please visit https://just-city.org.

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“…However, there is a need for studies comparing the effects of built and natural areas on health and well-being [ 65 ]. Investigations of the restorative benefits to be gained through various attributes of built green spaces [ 33 , 66 , 67 ] have advanced our understanding in this field of research, but it remains to be determined as to which types of green space provide the best experience for residents or visitors of those spaces [ 68 ].…”

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Flourishing or Frightening? Feelings about Natural and Built Green Spaces in Singapore

Dillon,

Lee,

Tai

2024

IJERPH

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The current study’s aim was to better understand people’s feelings towards different types of natural and built green space environments in the highly urbanized “garden city” of Singapore. We examined which types of green spaces elicited positive (eudemonic) or negative (apprehensive) affective responses. A total of 288 adult residents of Singapore completed a survey that asked them to report their affective states in response to images of 10 locally different environment types and to complete measures of childhood location, frequency of visiting natural/built environments, nature connectedness, and dispositional anxiety, as well as demographic items on age and gender. The 10 green space environment types were mapped onto an experiential state space representing feelings of apprehension and eudemonia in response to specific types of urban green spaces. In terms of a biophilic response, feelings of eudemonia were no different in natural green spaces compared to built green spaces. A higher frequency of experience in specific environments is associated with enhanced feelings of eudemonia in these environments. The findings indicate that people in Singapore can be apprehensive as much in natural green spaces as in built green spaces, and they can also find eudemonic experiences in built green spaces such as roof-top gardens or town parks.

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Does public space have to be green to improve well-being? An analysis of public space across Greater London and its association to subjective well-being

Cited by 29 publications

References 70 publications

Sponge city construction and population health

Sponge city construction and population health

A Manifesto for the Just City: Volume 3

Flourishing or Frightening? Feelings about Natural and Built Green Spaces in Singapore

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