Green Areas and Parks

Green space is becoming quite a point of discussion because it’s not being accommodated in

Green area: It is a trapezoid area surrounded by low height plastic fence from three sides and a wooden higher fence on

According to the essay “ Nature Through the Looking Glass”, the author believes that people should be part of nature, but most of the time people do not have real touch activity of nature. Under the strong competition society, it is not easy for a normal worker to go outside and interact with the nature. Those green plants on two sides of the city sidewalk is one of the chances for people to get touch to nature. More importantly, walking in the city sidewalks is easier than having a travel, which can satisfy most of the city people’s working requirement . Also, nature world will bring quiet life for people I always ask myself, if I can live without business area, after reading the essay “ The Forged City”. And I get a response, which is people need to get out of business activities and come back to nature even a short time in each day. Without interest relationship, people’s life will become simple and pure. Shopping malls cannot replace traditional city centers because people have large limitations in business malls. In contrast, people can observe different levels people in the society with equality ideas in traditional city centers. City sidewalks can fit for this requirement and provide a comfortable area for all of us. When children go

Green Spaces Make Kids Smarter is an article written by Olga Khazan. Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic and she focuses on health. She has written several articles but I found this article interesting. This article focuses on the cognitive abilities relating to the greenery around the school. She first looked into a school near Long Beach, CA, where around one fifth of the students had asthma. This school was in the city and about 500 trucks would pass every hour. Not much greenery was around the school. A study was released at the same time stating at least nine percent of childhood asthma cases were attributable to road traffic. The air around the school was twice the normal level of elemental carbon which is a marker of diesel particle.

Landscape, when applied to an urban context, no longer refers to prospects of a pastoral scene but rather becomes a mean of connecting objects and spaces around it, as well as accommodating the dynamic processes and events that move through it. These urban landscapes are not only defined by their form, but by the program that surrounds it, as well as its ability to connect with the user through its underlying function. The snow dump known as the Bayview yards, is an example of such urban landscape. Bayview Yards is a 16 acre piece of land that is currently home to a derelict city workshop and a massive area designated for a snow dump. Through the site’s history and function a new opportunity comes forward to redefine the landscape, extenuating

There are a lot of stores around the area. Many transportations including buses, cars, and trains. As well as plants such as trees, grass, weeds. This shows that there are a lot of plant life available. There are humans such as myself walking, running etc. Some schools are also around so that shows there are a lot of children and teens. The interactions here will have a big impact in building a park because there are so much available. Since there are a lot of stores, parents can go get some shopping done then afterwards take their child to the park to enjoy themselves and play with other children. The children have a huge impact on this because they will have a place to play instead of being bored at home or even risking playing on the streets. As for teens they can relax with their friends after school or before school depending on what time they begin. Since there are a lot of transportation around, people can come and go to this site easier. They can take a bus, train, or car. Another great impact is that there are open sidewalks in which people can also walk if they live

Public spaces are areas in the community in which people can come into a common place and promotes community identity. Parks create an environment for the community to reach out to each other as well as creating a public forum for the community. We need to have the community more involved with each other and the best way to create an enriching environment is if the community was able to come and share their many identities to create a unique identity for the park. Tattnall Square Park hold a farmer’s market every week to promote community involvement and every so often brings in entertainment for the community to experience. The green space that the parks will have will welcome other community activities from other organizations and therefore allow the park to flourish. Parks are important to the community because they lend a hand in creating an identity to who the community is. The more inviting a community is, the more the community might intermingle, and the more inviting the community will seem to others creating an environment that Village Green, Mid-City Square, and Mill Hill needs.

Regional Park is a magnificent place to relax during the summer months. The scenery from a park bench is striking. Tops of enormous trees are blowing in the wind, swaying back and forth. Beautiful and blooming flowerbeds line the park floor. Nearby you can hear laughter, and see children fishing in the stream. Next, is enjoying an array of different animals and their behavior. Duck and geese are running wild, searching for dropped bread crumbs. Squirrels are jumping from tree to tree, looking for a new home. Dogs are digging for old bones, and playing frisbee with their owners. Finally, adoring the great outdoors makes for a perfect summer day. The warmth from the sun makes you sleepy on a park bench. Wind is slightly blowing north,

Often it is that this process of public involvement is tiresome but more than often it is an essential part of the development of open spaces and green areas. Parks support community engagement by providing residents with a venue for participation in and

Play space were created to get children of the streets, when New York was being developed cars were increasing at a high rate and children had to complete with on-going traffic while playing in the street. Due to the increase numbers of cars in the city, children injuries and death was at all-time high, because they had no place to play and the cars were taking over the streets of New York. This was the main reason park were built, so that children had a safe place to play. In the early years when parks came about the served a valuable purpose for children, today it seems that park in the urban low-income neighborhoods lost its significance. According to the Wridt article, the interview she conducted of the three individuals ages ranges from 13-60 years old. These individuals arise from the same neighborhood but yet they all have very

Policies at the local, state, and federal level have had a large impact on management and are also reflective of how governments perceived the role of wildlife refuges. The Klamath River Basin, like much of the western United States, has much federal influence because of the prevalence of federal lands in the basin. The policy making bodies within the Klamath make decisions based on the missions and interests of their individual agencies, and sometimes these missions can be contradictory(Wilson 2010). Evaluation of the roles of federal agencies and the differences in agency policy is vital for understanding management in the refuges. For the purpose of my study I will examine the challenges of refuge management by interviewing refuge staff

Audience Hook: Increasing community gardens and green spaces in urban areas can help decrease crime in some neighborhoods, revitalize neglected industrial areas and create healthy, livable neighborhoods (Kuo & Sullivan, 2001). Increasing trees in urban areas has been shown to lower asthma rates in resident

The urban environment that I live in is my nature. My nature is filled with birds, cats, grass, and flowers. It may not be as abundant with mother nature’s resources compared to most places, but it still provides me with an experience of nature. Nature is not limited to just what we see anymore. However, you must use your senses to truly achieve the full experience of nature. In nature, you must smell the wonderful odors from the flowers, you should use your sight and observe the natural beauty of the ever-changing sky, touch the rough and jagged bark of the trees, and hear the spectacular songs of the birds that fly above you.

Urban parks are defined in their comparative and contrastive relationships to the urban environments surrounding them. Although frequently conceptualized as natural landscapes, the physical and social uses of parks give

The number of people living in urban areas is dramatically increasing across the world. Currently, 75 % of people live in cities in the developed world, (Bernhardt E.S. and Palmer M.A, 2007) despite such high percentage many do not get access to the green and blue spaces available, in other words cannot interact with nature. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency green spaces are ‘land that is partly or completely covered with grass, trees, shrubs or other vegetation’ (Environmental Protection Agency, 2014) This includes community gardens, parks as well as cemeteries. (Environmental Protection Agency, 2014) On the other hand, blue spaces include rivers, canals and lakes. (Sally, M, 2010) As urbanisation increases, it will pose a greater threat to nature such as pollution, habitat destruction, erosion and colonisation of native species. There are various ways to engage with nature. However, one reason for green and blue spaces not being utilised effectively by people may be due to people being unaware of the values that these have and the crucial functions they undertake in the ecosystem such as recycling nutrients and controlling the hydrological cycle.