How having greater access to green spaces can benefit people's mental health, writes ckbergland
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Before diving into this research, I'll share some first-person lived experience of how having access to vibrant green spaces makes urban environments less depressing based on my observations of growing up in New York City during a period of urban decay and regeneration. I was born on York Avenue in 1966 and grew up a few blocks from Central Park entrances on Manhattan's Upper East Side. In the early '70s, when I was growing up in NYC,"urban renewal" projects—that always seemed to involve bulldozing existing structures and building superhighways—were ubiquitous. One such project was the Cross Bronx Expressway, completed in 1972.
The juxtaposition between where my family lived on 68th Street in Manhattan, surrounded by lots of birds and trees, and what I saw a few miles north in the South Bronx, where there seemed to be zero vegetation and lots of smog, was stark. Joni Mitchell summed up what urbanization and asphalt pavers were doing to nature in her environmental-conservancy anthem"Big Yellow Taxi."They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum.
When the Central Park Conservancy was created in 1980, it signified that New Yorkers on all sides of the park were rallying to preserve residential green spaces.
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