Chapter 1 Review: The Precision Core

Recent studies that access to green space in cities is linked to lower reported stress, though the evidence is correlational rather than causal. Urban planners that this justifies protecting parkland even where land values are high, while developers that the same land could house thousands of families. What is not in doubt is that the shortage of affordable housing the wellbeing of low-income residents, and that overcrowding health outcomes that are already poor. One that several cities have adopted is a minimum green-space requirement for new developments — a single rule rather than a whole for urban renewal. Local authorities should also greater emphasis on maintaining what already exists, since neglected parks a threat to exactly the residents who cannot travel to reach an alternative. Where councils have set out to awareness of local green space, usage has risen without any new land being bought at all.