Tag: Parks
Summer visitors to American parks choose safety first over freedom to...
B. Derrick Taff, Pennsylvania State University
In a typical summer, millions of Americans head outdoors to national parks, hiking trails and rivers across the U.S....
Parks matter more than ever during a time of sickness –...
Richard leBrasseur, Dalhousie University
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered humans’ relationship with natural landscapes in ways that may be long-lasting. One of its most direct...
Is your city making you fat? How urban planning can address...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and...
Can parks help cities fight crime?
Lincoln Larson, North Carolina State University and S. Scott Ogletree, Clemson University
The relationship between parks and crime remains the subject of debate.
Some scholars...
Parks help cities – but only if people use them
Thaisa Way, University of Washington
In cities, access to parks is strongly linked with better health for both people and neighborhoods.
Children suffer higher rates of...
Spending time alone in nature is good for your mental and...
Brad Daniel, Montreat College; Andrew Bobilya, Western Carolina University, and Ken Kalisch, Montreat College
Today Americans live in a world that thrives on being busy,...
Remembering America’s lost buildings
Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University; Carol Willis, Columbia University; Daniel Bluestone, Boston University; Kerry Traynor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
