Talk:Urban green space

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Hello,

I've taken a crack at perhaps improving the public health page.

It is by no means perfect, so please feel free to help improve.

Thank you!

The distinction between "individual" and "communal" is to my mind not a helpful dichotomy. Are we to understand by this that the epidemiological study cited not a study of 'individuals'? I suggest that this section is considerably rewritten, summarising the public health benefits of urban green space. I will try to attend to this soon.Jimjamjak (talk) 09:21, 30 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

i have a big problem with the use of "nature" in this article. 99.99% of all parks are human-made cultural artifacts. but i don't want to just change everything. what should i do?95.91.247.199 (talk) 19:46, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Be bold! Make the changes you believe are appropriate.Jimjamjak (talk) 14:51, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply

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There is nothing in this section which is "controversial". I suggest removing the section heading and placing the information therein in other parts of the article.Jimjamjak (talk) 09:23, 30 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm planning on doing some general reorganizing of this page. I'll mostly be working on getting rid of some of the sub-categories in the "benefits" section so that it's not so broken up. In addition to the reorganization, I'm working on expanding the "history" section so it includes more than one place and fitting in a section about sustainability practices in the "current trends section." Gabibleuel (talk) 20:18, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  I made a lot of changes to the "benefits" section including deleting some information that I don't think added to the understanding of this page. If there's anything you think should not have been deleted please let me know. Gabibleuel (talk) 23:25, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest that

I agree. The urban open space article makes sense under the term “public open space”. I’m not familiar with the term urban open space. Adondai (talk) 23:13, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, as

urban open space does make this distinction. I also think that the two topics are independently notable. Klbrain (talk) 21:05, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply

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The content of the article is about natural territories, not about play fields. It is very important to write about that issue and there are many things that should be added like decrease of air pollution by trees. But the WHO call it urban green space and I think that in Wikipedia it should be the same, for avoid confusion and for that people who search the word will find it in Wikipedia. So there are 2 ways: creating a new page "Urban green space" and copying almost all the content to it, or changing the name of this page and creating other page about Urban open space. I think the second is easier. --אלכסנדר סעודה (talk) 09:05, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@אלכסנדר סעודה: I am going to boldly do that, its the much more common definition. Sadads (talk) 12:17, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Moving the following here from Sustainable planting. This is a long article and the text is likely redundant, but perhaps the references can be recycled:

Over a hundred peer-reviewed studies published during or after the year 2010 show that urban green space lowers air and ground temperatures and improves air quality.[1] The size, quality and density of urban green spaces are positively correlated with the derived benefits.[1] Sustainable urban green spaces dramatically reduce heat-stress related deaths and hospitalizations in urban communities and improve the overall health of individuals within those communities.[1]

And here's a source which seems to be about urban planning, I think -something about the polder model and involving stakeholders I'll bet; in any case it does not corroborate the sentence it was referencing:^[2]