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People use green open spaces when they are close, but not when they are more than three minutes away

Drawn from what Christopher Alexander said

Subjectbehavioural science
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behavioural science Applying how people actually decide to policy, rather than assuming how they should.

What Christopher Alexander actually said

  1. Christopher Alexander Architect and design theorist (1936 to 2022)
    People need green open places to go to; when they are close they use them. But if the greens are more than three minutes away, the distance overwhelms the need.

    Where this was said

    ↗A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Oxford University Press, 1977; with 5 co-authors)books.google.com

    c. 1977

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