• J Urban Health · Aug 2022

    Clean Spaces, Community Building, and Urban Stage: the Coproduction of Health and Parks in Low-Income Neighborhoods.

    • Sanne Raap, Mare Knibbe, and Klasien Horstman.
    • Dep. Health, Ethics and Society, Health Inequities and Societal Participation (HISP), Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty Health, Medicine, Life Sciences, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands. s.raap@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
    • J Urban Health. 2022 Aug 1; 99 (4): 680687680-687.

    AbstractGreen zones are potential contributors to health by mitigating disparities between low- and high-income neighborhoods. Against the background of different discourses about city parks-parks as restorative environments, parks as enabling places, and parks as sites for encounters between strangers-we ethnographically studied the coproduction of green spaces and health within low-income neighborhoods. We found three competing notions of urban green, each tied to different notions of neighborhood well-being. Parks as "clean spaces" create expectations of order and peace; parks as places of the community are related to play and activities; and parks as urban stage foster interactions between strangers. By generating experiences that encompass different conceptions of health, citizen-led events can contribute to a shift in the understanding of parks as sites of neighborhood decline to parks as places of hope and new beginnings.© 2022. The Author(s).

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