| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 199 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Public spaces for a changing public life / Jan Gehl -- "The health of the people is the highest law" : public health, public policy and green space / Ken Worpole -- Playful nature : what makes the difference between some people going outside and others not? / Catharine Ward Thompson -- Culture, heritage and access to open spaces / Judy Ling Wong -- Landscape perception as a reflection of quality of life and social exclusion in rural areas : what does it mean in an expanded Europe? / Simon Bell and Alicia Montarzino -- Mapping youth spaces in the public realm : identity, space, and social exclusion / Penny Travlou -- What makes a park inclusive and universally designed? : a multi-method approach / Robin C. Moore and Nilda G. Cosco -- "You just follow the signs" : understanding visitor wayfinding problems in the countryside / Katherine Southwell and Catherine Findlay -- Developing evidence-based design : environmental interventions for healthy development of young children in the outdoors / Nilda Cosco -- Healing gardens for people living with Alzheimer's : challenges to creating an evidence base for treatment outcomes / John Zeisel -- Measuring the quality of the outdoor environment relevant to older people's lives / Takemi Sugiyama and Catharine Ward Thompson -- Three steps to understanding restorative environments as health resources / Terry Hartig -- On quality of life, analysis and evidence based belief / Peter A. Aspinall |
| Summary |
Highly visual and containing contributions from leading names in landscape, architecture and design, this volume provides a rare insight into people's engagement with the outdoor environment; looking at the ways in which the design of spaces and places meets people's needs and desires in the twenty-first century. Embracing issues of social inclusion, recreation, and environmental quality, the editors explore innovative ways to develop an understanding of how the landscape, urban or rural, can contribute to health and quality of life.; "Open Space: People Space" examines the nature and value of people's access to outdoor environments. Led by Edinburgh's Open Space research centre, the debate focuses on current research to support good design for open space and brings expertise from a range of disciplines to look at: an analysis of policy and planning issues and challenges understanding the nature and experience of exclusion the development of evidence-based inclusive design innovative research approaches which focus on people's access to open space and the implications of that experience.; Invaluable to policy makers, researchers, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, managers and students, it is also essential reading for those working in child development, health care and community development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Open spaces.
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Public spaces.
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Regional planning.
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Human geography.
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Spatial behavior.
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Outdoor recreation.
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open spaces.
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regional planning.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Human geography
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Open spaces
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Outdoor recreation
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Public spaces
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Regional planning
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Spatial behavior
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ward Thompson, Catharine
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Travlou, Penny
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| ISBN |
9780203961827 |
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020396182X |
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1280971339 |
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9781280971334 |
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