Managing Urban Forest Fear/Safety and Vegetation/Privacy
This study documents the importance of privacy as a desiredoutcome from visiting an urban forest.
"Urban forests provide a range of biological and social benefits. One of the little recognized benefits of urban forests is that they can provide an environment for achieving privacy, away from the fast pace of urban life. This study documents the importance of privacy as a desired outcome from visiting an urban forest. Additional analysis documents that different settings within urban forests are valued for differing privacy outcomes. Lastly, the study sought to understand how desire for privacy is balanced with concerns about comfort and safety in urban forests. Achieving some of the types of privacy requires physical isolation and these situationsevoke concerns about safety." [from Executive Summary]
NUCFAC recommended award: 08-99-50-G-22
W.E. Hammitt, R.D. Bixler
June 2001
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