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Evaluation of Austerity Urbanism
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Urban Open Space
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 * Determining urban open spaces for health-related appropriations: a qualitative analysis on the significance of blue space
 * Relationships between urban open spaces and humans’ health benefits from an ecological perspective: a study in an urban campus
 * Food growing in the city: Exploring the productive urban landscape as a new paradigm for inclusive approaches to the design and planning of future urban open spaces
 * The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework
 * Nature can be used as a way to escape urban environments and daily stresses.
 * Mental fatigue from working and daily life without any way for your brain to relax is a problem especially in urban areas. When natural environments are too distant for regular and easy access, people lose that form of relaxation and refreshment.
 * Nature is able to hold our attention while not being overwhelming or dramatic.
 * Settings that include historic artifacts also aid in forming a sense of place.
 * Linking landscape and health: The recurring theme
 * Does happiness data say urban parks are worth it?
 * A brief history of urban green spaces
 * The environmental elements of foundations in Roman cities: A theory of the architect Gaetano Vinaccia

Ancient Rome
The term "rus in urbe" meaning "country in the city" was used in Rome around the first century C.E. Urban planning in Rome valued the natural landscape and took account for environmental factors. It was thought that by building a city with regard to the local countryside, the people living there would be healthier and happier. English landscapes would later take inspiration from Roman urban planning concepts in their own open spaces.

Benefits
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Sustainability
With increasing knowledge about the importance of sustainability, there has been a greater push for green and open spaces in urban areas. Current trends in planning open space into urban areas include converting unused spaces into green spaces, vertical forests, and community gardening. In Seattle, a new trend in land use planning is creating "food forests" or "edible parks" where the open space provides free food for the community.