Sense of Well-Being Indicators: Attachment to public parks in Putrajaya, Malaysia

Ujang, Norsidah; Moulay, Amine; Zakariya, Khalilah

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.195

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“…It has been observed in a study of 20 countries, including India [74], that physical activity declines with age. The visitors were mostly accompanied by family members as parks are attractive places to do recreational activities with families and contribute to enhanced social interaction [75]. Single people are reasonably well represented in the study, conforming to the study by Jim and Chen [36].…”

Section: Visitor Characteristicssupporting

confidence: 66%

Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi

Paul

Nagendra

2017

Land

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Urban green spaces provide important recreational, social and psychological benefits to stressed city residents. This paper aims to understand the importance of parks for visitors. We focus on Delhi, the world's second most populous city, drawing on 123 interviews with park visitors in four prominent city parks. Almost all respondents expressed the need for more green spaces. Visitors valued parks primarily for environmental and psychological/health benefits. They had limited awareness of biodiversity, with one out of three visitors unable to identify tree species and one out of four visitors unable to identify animal species frequenting the park. Most of the daily visitors lived within 0.5 km of these parks, but a small fraction of visitors traveled over 10 km to visit these major parks, despite having smaller neighbourhood parks in their vicinity. This study demonstrates the importance of large, well-maintained, publicly accessible parks in a crowded city. The results can help to better plan and design urban green spaces, responding to the needs and preferences of urban communities. This research contributes to the severely limited information on people's perceptions of and requirements from urban nature in cities of the Global South.

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Section: Visitor Characteristicssupporting

confidence: 66%

Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi

Paul

Nagendra

2017

Land

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“…Therefore, the higher the residents' satisfaction level with the existence and use of green parks in the region, the higher the region's livability. Specifically, Ujang et al (2015) conducted an interview with the users of green parks to confirm that the level of satisfaction with the use of green parks is an important factor in urban satisfaction.…”

Section: Pleasantnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, urban environmental satisfaction was rated in terms of accessibility, pleasantness, and safety (Kamalipour et al 2012;Özkan and Yilmaz 2019;Ujang et al 2015). Accessibility was measured by the satisfaction level of the accessibility to public institutions, cultural facilities, commercial facilities, and medical institutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing Urban Livability in Seoul, Korea: Urban Environmental Satisfaction and Neighborhood Relations

Lee

2021

Social Sciences

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This study examines the correlations between urban environmental satisfaction, neighborhood relations, and livability. Previous studies on livability have insufficiently dealt with urban environments and neighborhood relations and have failed to conduct an integrated analysis that considers the causal relationships between these factors. To fill these knowledge gaps, this study includes urban environmental satisfaction and neighborhood relations as factors affecting livability. Moreover, this study verified the mediating effect of neighborhood relations between urban environmental satisfaction and livability. Online surveys were carried out with 750 residents in Seoul, South Korea, and the structural equation model (SEM) was employed. The results indicated that a higher level of urban environmental satisfaction affected livability positively. In particular, the accessibility had the greatest effect on livability. In addition, neighborhood relations had a mediating effect on the pleasantness and safety of urban environments. Today, many developing countries are undergoing rapid urbanization, as Seoul has experienced in the past. However, this can cause a number of simultaneous side effects, which lower livability. Furthermore, this leads to population decline which might hinder urban sustainability. Therefore, this study suggests important policy implications for achieving urban sustainability by improving livability.

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“…A suggestion from Healthy Spaces and Places (2009) stated where the green area should be linked to the center of a neighborhood that involved retails building, community-related spaces, and housing areas with fewer residents for better safety. The natural elements, including fresh air and green surroundings, can create a calm feeling directed to ease the mind from stressful events (Moulay & Ujang, 2016;Ujang et al, 2015). Thompson et al (2012) identified the neighborhood associated with perceiving the stress among residents has a higher quantity of green areas.…”

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Neighborhood Park Visit Impacted Psychological Health in Reducing Stress

Hussein

Ishak

Yunus

2021

jABs

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This study examines the relationship between residents' stress levels with their participation at the neighborhood park in Petaling Jaya. The information on stress level and neighborhood park usage pattern proceed by distributing a questionnaire survey set. The outcome of this study identifies the connection of stress result with the usage pattern at the neighborhood park. Future research is recommended to have more than one case study with different demographic pattern backgrounds to enhance the residents' mental wellbeing by better planning neighborhood parks as a stress reliever. Keywords: Neighbourhood park; stress; preliminary study eISSN 2514-7528 © 2021 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians / Africans / Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v6i18.383

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Sense of Well-Being Indicators: Attachment to public parks in Putrajaya, Malaysia

Cited by 42 publications

References 17 publications

Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi

Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi

Factors Influencing Urban Livability in Seoul, Korea: Urban Environmental Satisfaction and Neighborhood Relations

Neighborhood Park Visit Impacted Psychological Health in Reducing Stress

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