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Attitudes towards urban green during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter
COVID-19 has had economic, social and environmental impacts worldwide. Governments have adopted containment measures to limit the spread of the virus. Urban green spaces (UGSs) were included among the non-essential activities and were consequently closed during the lockdown periods in some countries...
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Elsevier Ltd.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9091318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35572914 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103707 |
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author | Marchi, V. Speak, A. Ugolini, F. Sanesi, G. Carrus, G. Salbitano, F. |
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description | COVID-19 has had economic, social and environmental impacts worldwide. Governments have adopted containment measures to limit the spread of the virus. Urban green spaces (UGSs) were included among the non-essential activities and were consequently closed during the lockdown periods in some countries. This study analysed tweets posted by users to understand the citizens' perception and sentiment in relation to the closure of UGS in Italy. Results revealed that people felt a strong deprivation feeling in relation to the restrictions imposed on UGS access, which limited the number of spaces for supporting mental and physical wellbeing of citizens. Users from urban areas were more affected by the lockdowns and more willing to share thoughts on social media, demonstrating a strong emotionality. Furthermore, findings show that users seemed concerned about their children's health, expressing awareness about the benefits of being in contact with nature. UGS is able to provide services to citizens, and close-to-home parks are fundamental for the community, in particular during a health emergency. The implementation of urban design, which includes green areas to support health and environment challenges, should be addressed by policy-makers to create opportunities for a green and resilient recovery of cities, and prepare for future emergencies. |
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spelling | pubmed-90913182022-05-11 Attitudes towards urban green during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter Marchi, V. Speak, A. Ugolini, F. Sanesi, G. Carrus, G. Salbitano, F. Cities Article COVID-19 has had economic, social and environmental impacts worldwide. Governments have adopted containment measures to limit the spread of the virus. Urban green spaces (UGSs) were included among the non-essential activities and were consequently closed during the lockdown periods in some countries. This study analysed tweets posted by users to understand the citizens' perception and sentiment in relation to the closure of UGS in Italy. Results revealed that people felt a strong deprivation feeling in relation to the restrictions imposed on UGS access, which limited the number of spaces for supporting mental and physical wellbeing of citizens. Users from urban areas were more affected by the lockdowns and more willing to share thoughts on social media, demonstrating a strong emotionality. Furthermore, findings show that users seemed concerned about their children's health, expressing awareness about the benefits of being in contact with nature. UGS is able to provide services to citizens, and close-to-home parks are fundamental for the community, in particular during a health emergency. The implementation of urban design, which includes green areas to support health and environment challenges, should be addressed by policy-makers to create opportunities for a green and resilient recovery of cities, and prepare for future emergencies. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-07 2022-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9091318/ /pubmed/35572914 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103707 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Marchi, V. Speak, A. Ugolini, F. Sanesi, G. Carrus, G. Salbitano, F. Attitudes towards urban green during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter |
title | Attitudes towards urban green during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter |
title_full | Attitudes towards urban green during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter |
title_fullStr | Attitudes towards urban green during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter |
title_full_unstemmed | Attitudes towards urban green during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter |
title_short | Attitudes towards urban green during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter |
title_sort | attitudes towards urban green during the covid-19 pandemic via twitter |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9091318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35572914 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103707 |
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