The New Urbanism: Resources

Urban Forests / Greenspaces

• New market for developers: homebuyers want view of woods, not large lawns, University of Michigan press release, 2004-06-28. Links to research itself are broken.
  Briefly: neighbors treasure their view of trees, and this is a widely held preference.
• Human Dimensions of Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. Kathleen L. Wolf, Ph.D., University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Science, College of the Environment.
  Summary: features research on people's perception and behaviors regarding nature in cities.
• Researchers find walking in nature provides mental health benefits by Alina Abidi - Stanford Daily, 2015-07-26. Stanford researchers found that walking in nature, as opposed to walking in urban areas, provides mental health benefits.
  Cited article: Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation by Gregory N. Bratman, J. Paul Hamilton, Kevin S. Hahn, Gretchen C. Daily, and James J. Gross. PNAS 2015 112 (28) 8567-8572; published online ahead of print 2015-06-29.
• Living Near Green Spaces Helps You Live Longer, New Study Shows - NBC News, 2016-04-18

Retail Areas

• Rorschach Town from San Francisco Magazine on Walnut Creek (expired or moved to unknown)