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<title>Green Cities: Good Health</title>
<link>http://depts.washington.edu/hhwb/</link>
<description>A new web site provides facts about the social benefits of urban forestry and urban greening. Metro nature - including trees, parks, gardens, and natural areas - adds beauty to built places. The experience of nature in cities is profoundly important for many other reasons. Scientific studies tell us why. Find out more about the research at Green Cities: Good Health</description>
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<copyright>2010 University of Washington. All rights reserved.</copyright>
        

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<title>Active Living</title>
<link>http://depts.washington.edu/hhwb/Thm_PhysActivity.html</link>  
<description>The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of research about urban nature and its impact on public health. It focuses on how trees and other greening elements might encourage physical activity.</description>  
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<title>Crime and Fear</title>  
<link>http://depts.washington.edu/hhwb/Thm_Crime.html</link>  
<description>There are two conflicting outlooks towards city trees and vegetation. On one hand landscape is believed to promote healing and renewal, while the second outlook implicates vegetation as a cause of crime. This article addresses the second perspective, and summarizes the research findings on the relationship between urban nature and safety, aggressive behavior, and crime. The science findings are not conclusive, and may even appear inconsistent or conflicting, yet certain patterns or relationships are seen across many studies.</description>  
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<title>Community Economics</title>  
<link>http://depts.washington.edu/hhwb/Thm_Economics.html</link>  
<description>City trees are not grown and managed for products that can be bought and sold on markets. But they do provide many intangible services and functions! This article serves two purposes. It will introduce valuation techniques that are used to convert intangible benefits to dollar sums. Then it will turn to how nonmarket valuations can support local decision making.</description>  
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<title>Safe Streets</title>  
<link>http://depts.washington.edu/hhwb/Thm_SafeStreets.html</link>  
<description>City streets are not just thoroughfares for motor vehicles. They serve as public spaces where people walk, shop, meet, and generally participate in activities that make urban living enjoyable. Conventional guidelines for transportation safety regard trees as roadside fixed-objects that present driving hazards. Yet urban foresters, designers, and planners encourage tree planting to enhance the livability of urban streets. This article surveys the research on roadside vegetation benefits, and the scientific evidence about city trees, and transportation safety.</description>  
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