How do urban environments affect young people's mental health? A novel conceptual framework to bridge public health, planning, and neurourbanism

A Buttazzoni, S Doherty, L Minaker - Public Health Reports, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Childhood and adolescence are crucial periods for mental and social development.
Currently, mental illness among young people is a global epidemic, and rates of disorders …

Riverkin: Seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the United Kingdom and beyond

JB Cohen, C Dannreuther, M Fraundorfer… - People and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with
'thingifying'processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and …

Muddying the waters: What urban waterways reveal about bluespaces and wellbeing

H Pitt - Geoforum, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper urges geographies of waterscapes beyond the blue to consider brown, grey and
green waters, demonstrating the value of remembering water is not everywhere always the …

Urban design and adolescent mental health: A qualitative examination of adolescent emotional responses to pedestrian-and transit-oriented design and cognitive …

A Buttazzoni, J Dean, L Minaker - Health & place, 2022 - Elsevier
With the continued migration of people into cities, urban environments are becoming
increasingly important determinants of health. However, the study of how precise …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the relationships between specific urban design features and adolescent mental health: The case of imageability, enclosure, human scale …

A Buttazzoni, L Minaker - Landscape and urban Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
Adolescence is a critical phase in an individual's development. Adolescents are especially
susceptible to the impacts of external environment stimuli (eg, afforded social opportunities …

'It'sa great place to find where you belong': creating, curating and valuing place and space in open youth work

T de St Croix, L Doherty - Children's Geographies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Open youth work is a practice of informal education that operates in a variety of spaces, from
youth clubs and community centres to street corners. This article highlights the distinctive …

Riverine relations, affective labor and changing environmental subjectivity in Kerala, South India

RK Sony, S Krishnan - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent works in political ecology draw attention to affective ecologies that focus on lived
experiences and fluid/relational subjectivities. The attention to affect and materiality …

Representational affectivities in nature-based leisure: the case of game-angling

T Mordue, O Moss - Leisure Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We explore affective registers that characterise game-angling, particularly fly-fishing,
through a critical engagement with the discursive and visual strategies employed in a key …

Young people's outdoor refuges: movements and (dis) entanglements

J Arvidsen, S Beames - Children's geographies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Young people's outdoor refuges have been identified as places that provide respite from
everyday pressures. Inspired by four concepts of lines, knots, meshwork and wayfaring, as …

Água negra (black water) and overwhelming details: For more-than-nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges

J Horton, P Kraftl, JAP Balestieri… - … and Planning E …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper advances multidisciplinary research, policy, education and activisms which
cohere around the concept of the 'water–energy–food (W–E–F) nexus' via an evidence-led …