Click here (HaAretz) to learn about the benefits (and costs) of greenery in modern Israel's cities... Why do you think urban residents crave parklands? Ecology? Scenery? Equity? Other?
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I think this is in our subconscious and as well as in our consciousness. My points is that we come from the environment, like all esle, so is it strange that we crave it. Literally the fast pace life of the city translates in to stress. The green of parks and other natural venues give us feelings of peace, serenity, calmness, freedom. Nature imposes relaxation that is a total enjoyment, but urban life impose deadlines and issues, which can be overwhelmingly stressful.
Good point, Cynthia... Humanity seems to be suspended in a perennial tension between nature and civilization, craving the benefits while eschewing the costs of both!
I honestly can't stand large cities - the trash bothers me. There is so much trash all over Houston and the suburbs, and the air just stinks. Okay, I'm done complaining ... But I personally crave wooded parks to just walk the trails on, and I think that urban residents just don't get that that aspect of nature is so beneficial, especially in the quiet. No cars, no Starbucks, etc. This article points out, though, that we as a society are so focused on one aspect of "going green" - the idea of parks and organics and biking, that we don't look at other aspects such as waste. It seems that anywhere you go now you can buy a bottle of water (and granted, on campus, the water is disgusting,) but the waste from the plastic alone counteracts the attempt to be a "green" society,
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I think this is in our subconscious and as well as in our consciousness. My points is that we come from the environment, like all esle, so is it strange that we crave it. Literally the fast pace life of the city translates in to stress. The green of parks and other natural venues give us feelings of peace, serenity, calmness, freedom. Nature imposes relaxation that is a total enjoyment, but urban life impose deadlines and issues, which can be overwhelmingly stressful.
Cynthia Williams
Good point, Cynthia... Humanity seems to be suspended in a perennial tension between nature and civilization, craving the benefits while eschewing the costs of both!
pdk
I honestly can't stand large cities - the trash bothers me. There is so much trash all over Houston and the suburbs, and the air just stinks. Okay, I'm done complaining ... But I personally crave wooded parks to just walk the trails on, and I think that urban residents just don't get that that aspect of nature is so beneficial, especially in the quiet. No cars, no Starbucks, etc. This article points out, though, that we as a society are so focused on one aspect of "going green" - the idea of parks and organics and biking, that we don't look at other aspects such as waste. It seems that anywhere you go now you can buy a bottle of water (and granted, on campus, the water is disgusting,) but the waste from the plastic alone counteracts the attempt to be a "green" society,
--brayden
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