Urban Children’s Familiarity and Feeling Towards Nearby Nature

Neighbourhood physical environment influences on children’s outdoor play: a systematic review

“…In addition, urbanisation has increased the plunder of the natural environment, so children have fewer opportunities to contact nature (D'Haese et al, 2015). The space dominated by the natural landscape can also provide the wealthiest game materials for children's games and enhance the diversity and creativity of games (Mansor et al, 2016). The natural environment in the play space provided for children in the residential area should be paid attention to and included in the research topic.…”

“…There are not only spaces covering the general residential neighbourhood (accounting for 50.9%) but also thematic spaces, such as public green spaces (14.5%), streets (14.5%), community parks (12.7%), playgrounds (5.4%), play streets (5.4%), backyards (5.4%), school neighbourhoods (3.6%), and other microscale environments (3.6%). It can be found that the natural environment and streets are the places with the highest research frequency because of their spatial characteristics and various forms, and they are also the most preferred play environments for children (Mansor et al, 2016;Oke and Middle, 2016;Oakley et al, 2021).…”

“…These perceptions are expressed in the form of comparisons, preferences, conditions, strengths, weaknesses, characteristics, and recommendations. In the column on the perception of the physical environment, children's preference for natural environments (Mansor et al, 2016;Zeng and Li, 2018;Lai and Low, 2019;Yoon and Lee, 2019;Zhang and Tamminga, 2022) and children's preference for playing games in diverse environments accounted for the highest proportion (Holloway and Pimlott-Wilson, 2018;Loebach and Gilliland, 2019;Mears et al, 2020;Zhang and Tamminga, 2022), and the rest perception of the physical environment is relatively average. In terms of gender differences, boys have more dynamic characteristics regarding field expansion needs and spatial location movement than girls (Mansor et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2017).…”