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Green cities and health
a question of scale?
Richardson, E.A., Mitchell, R., Hartig, T., Vries, S. de, Astell-Burt, T., & Frumkin, H. (2011). Green cities and health: a question of scale?.
Cities are expanding and accommodating an increasing proportion of the world's population. It is important to identify features of urban form that promote the health of city dwellers. Access to green space has been associated with health benefits at both individual and neighbourhood level. We investigated whether a relationship between green space coverage and selected mortality rates exists at the city level in the USA. Conclusions: While considerable evidence suggests that access to green space yields health benefits, we found no such evidence at the scale of the American city. In the USA, greener cities tend also to be more sprawling and have higher levels of car dependency. Any benefits that the green space might offer seem easily eclipsed by these other conditions and the lifestyles that accompany them. The result merits further investigation as it has important implications for how we increase green space access in our cities.
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Elizabeth RichardsonRichard Mitchell
Terry Hartig
Sjerp de Vries
Thomas Astell-Burt
Howard Frumkin
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