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Direct and Indirect Effects of Urban Green Spaces

 


             - Having a diverse, vital and innovative urban economy.
             - Enabling connections with the cultural and biological heritage.
             - Having an optimum level of appropriate public health and care services accessibly to all.
             - Having high levels of positive health outcomes and low levels of morbidity.
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             1.0 Direct Effects of Green Spaces in Urban Areas.
             1.1 Human physiology.
             As more and more people are moving to urban cities for jobs, it is vital to make sure that the urban areas can live up to these expectations. One of the ways to do so is by increasing one's exposure to nature. In accordance with the BBC article, studies shows the importance on the quantity of nature in our society. They found that people who are exposed to nature are generally healthier than those are not (Vries de S, 2003).
             An Australian review further illustrates the direct effects of nature on the human physiology. It was found that contact with nature has positive effects on blood pressure, cholesterol, outlook on life and stress reduction (C Maller, 2005). In addition, patients who had gallbladder surgery recovered faster if they had a view of trees, than patients who were facing parking lots or a wall (Ulrich, 1984). A simple mural of distant mountains and trees were shown to decrease stress levels and anxiety (JH Heerwagen, 1995). .
             1.2 Atmospheric Temperature.
             Global warming is a damaging side effect of urbanization. With rising pollution due an increased driving, and activity of various machines, global warming has been said to have negative effects our health. Shuko Hamada's research reports that adding trees into urban areas can decrease the atmospheric temperature and cushion the rise in global temperature. The research team measured the temperatures in an urban area that included forests and grasslands, as well as in the surrounding urban area in Nagoya, central Japan. The results show the temperature difference between the two areas were highest during the summer, and smallest in winter; the maximum air temperature difference was 1.


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