Residential green and blue space effects on newborn health: findings from a retrospective longitudinal study in Wales.

Information and communications technology (ICT) is increasingly embedded in the lives of migrants, creating new spatial forms that provide novel pathways for social integration. This study focuses on the leisure patterns of urban migrants in both virtual and physical spaces and further analyzes relationships between leisure patterns and social integration and its influencing factors. Using a weekly leisure activity diary of urban migrants in Guangzhou, China, we identify three leisure patterns based on the leisure activity locations and companions: virtual-solo, virtual-physical balance, and physical-partner. Both the virtual-physical balance and physical-partner leisure patterns significantly promote social integration among urban migrants. Additionally, there are notable differences in the influencing factors of these two patterns that facilitate migrant integration: The virtual-physical balance pattern is affected by home space, whereas the physical-partner pattern is influenced by the residence location and companions. This study conceptualizes the leisure patterns of urban migrants in virtual and physical spaces and explores their impact on social integration from a lifestyle-based lens, thereby expanding the existing geographical literature on virtual-physical spaces and social integration. The findings provide a crucial foundation for developing spatial policy interventions aimed at helping urban migrants better adapt to urban life.

Purpose. To analyze the pedagogical conditions for adapting traditional and multimedia outdoor games to physical education lessons in a limited home environment. Material and Methods. Theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific and methodological literature allowed us to clarify the status of solving the problem of implementing gaming technologies in distance learning. In the process of work, the works of domestic and foreign scientists were studied, dedicated to the impact of physical inactivity on the body of younger schoolchildren, the peculiarities of the psychophysiological state of students in grades 1-4, as well as modern trends in the digitalization of education. Methods of system analysis and comparison were applied to study the effectiveness of traditional outdoor games and innovative multimedia tools, in particular exergaming, in the context of their adaptation to limited home space. The empirical component of the study was based on the study and generalization of pedagogical experience in using digital platforms (YouTube, Wordwall) and mobile applications with movement tracking technologies (Active Arcade, Plaicise, Just Dance Now). Through pedagogical observation and analysis of existing methods, the most effective game models were identified that provide a combination of motor activity with cognitive development and interdisciplinary integration. Results. Based on a comprehensive analysis of leading researchers’ works, the article substantiates the role of play-based activities as a fundamental tool for the physical education of primary school children, promoting the harmonization of their psychophysiological state and the intensification of physical activity. It is determined that in the context of distance learning and increasing physical inactivity (hypodynamia), the gamification of the educational process gains particular relevance through the implementation of exergaming (active video games), immersive technologies (VR/AR), and interactive platforms (Wordwall, LearningApps, Active Arcade), which allow for the conversion of screen time into productive physical activity. Research findings demonstrate that the systematic integration of gaming techniques not only facilitates the improvement of locomotor skills and morphofunctional indicators of the body but also minimizes destructive behavior while enhancing students’ intrinsic motivation and cognitive performance. Special attention is paid to the necessity of adapting active games to limited home spaces and the importance of parental involvement in supervising asynchronous sessions to ensure safety and the overall effectiveness of pedagogical influence within a digital educational environment. Conclusions. Based on the analysis of scientific sources, it can be concluded that gaming activity and gamification are fundamental tools of modern physical education, enabling the effective adaptation of the learning process to the psychophysiological characteristics of students in a digital environment. The systematic integration of active games, immersive technologies (VR/AR), and exergaming (active video games) provides a comprehensive impact on the individual: ranging from strengthening somatic health and developing motor skills to stimulating cognitive processes and overcoming physical inactivity during distance learning. The use of interactive platforms (Wordwall, LearningApps) and gaming methodologies allows for the transformation of routine exercises into high-tech educational activities, which significantly increases students’ intrinsic motivation, minimizes disruptive behavior, and ensures a holistic approach to a child’s health and harmonious development.

Grief and love: Responses to death and disjuncture in homelessness research and practice.

Psychological factors are posing a serious challenge to the human civilization in the recent years. The relevance of dealing with the mental wellbeing along with the physical entities is increasing in the contemporary science, which was already been addressed in the Ayurvedic literatures. Childhood and adolescence are critical stages of life for mental health. This is a time when rapid growth and development take place in the brain. Children and adolescents acquire cognitive and social-emotional skills that shape their future mental health and are important for assuming adult roles in society. The quality of the environment where children and adolescents grow up shapes their wellbeing and development. Early negative experiences in home, school, or digital spaces, such as exposure to violence, the mental illness of a parent or other caregiver, bullying and poverty, are called as Adverse Childhood Experiences which increase the risk of mental illness. Ishtasya Alaabha and Anishtasya Laabha are said to be the Samanya Manasaroga Nidana. Ishtasya Alaabha refers to not getting the desired things and Anishtasya Laabha refers to acquiring undesirable things. Here an attempt is made to find the role of Ishtasya Alaabha and Anishtasya Laabha in the aetiopathogenesis of Manasaroga. The present study suggests that there is statistically significant relationship between Ishtasya Alaabha and Anishtasya Laabha in the aetiopathogenesis of Manasaroga; hence childhood trauma needs more attention, particularly in psychiatric clinical practices and scientific research.

Abstract. As ageing beings, the home spaces we inhabit in old age become pivotal in engendering a sense of security and emotional and physical well-being. Therefore, long-term outpatient carers work in highly sensitive contexts, wherein the establishment of a trusting atmosphere is of great significance. The introduction of the private sector into the long-term care market in Germany has led to the establishment of standards for each care task. This paper explores the rhythms of the implemented system of the so-called “service complexes” for long-term outpatient care by using a rhythm analysis. In doing this, I reflect on the effects of constructed standards on body(spaces), work processes and home spaces, which are sustained by digital technologies. The research is grounded in qualitative fieldwork conducted in the rural Altenburger Land, a region with one of the oldest populations in Germany. The findings illustrate the impact of the commodification of care on nurses, the corporeality of clients and their spaces of private retreat.

Housing poverty increasingly exposes young adults to insecure and inadequate living conditions that undermine health and well-being. This study examined how young adults living alone under housing poverty in Seoul define and practice health in daily life, adapt to inadequate housing, and interpret their neighborhood environments in relation to well-being. A qualitative exploratory design was employed, using in-depth interviews with 44 participants aged 19–39 who met policy-based criteria for housing poverty in South Korea. Interviews explored daily routines, understandings of healthy living, the use of home and community spaces, and neighborhood perceptions. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Participants viewed deliberate efforts to manage their health as a way to restore order and maintain control in their lives. Managing meals, sleep, and self-care enabled continuity and resilience, though often at the cost of social interaction. However, these practices could not fully counter constraints of inadequate housing, which disrupted rest, limited privacy, and constrained opportunities to recharge at home. To compensate, participants extended activities such as studying, exercising, or resting into community and commercial spaces, which they regarded more as necessary extensions of daily life than leisure options. Despite these adaptations, neighborhoods were often perceived as temporary and emotionally distant, offering functionality but little sense of belonging. These findings highlight housing poverty as a lived social determinant that restricts autonomy, emotional balance, and social participation. Addressing housing insecurity as a health promotion issue requires place-sensitive approaches that reduce psychological burdens while supporting young adults’ everyday health and well-being.

Abstract Motivation for older adults with cancer (OAC) to engage in physical activity (PA) during and after cancer treatment may be limited by many factors. OAC may be affected by persistent symptoms limiting PA capability such as fatigue, pain and dyspnea, or lack safe home or neighborhood spaces to engage in activity. Fear of falling (FOF) is a major concern among OAC and may decrease PA and life-space mobility. To understand how OAC perceptions of cancer treatment, FOF and their local built environment (BE) influence PA behaviors, we utilized ResearchMatch.org to recruit a sample of 19 people with a history of cancer aged 65+ who were diverse in self-identified race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. We developed an interview guide using Michie’s COM-B model (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation – Behavior) and conducted semi-structured interviews ranging from 24 to 60 minutes. Thematic Content Analysis was conducted by two investigators in NVivo v14. Critical themes included 1) regaining past PA levels vs. adjusting to new limitations; 2) high FOF levels may limit PA selection, regardless of fall history; 3) avoiding socialization and PA in public due to post-surgical changes in appearance; 4) home and local neighborhood layout impact opportunity to access safe spaces for PA and 5) desire to receive customized PA and health promotion education near end of treatment instead of while overwhelmed near diagnosis. Factors influencing motivation for PA in OAC are complex; clinicians should assess FOF and local BE to better customize PA recommendations that address these concerns and limitations.

BackgroundBuilt space is increasingly recognized to have measurable impact on mental and social health outcomes. Transitional spaces are indoor/outdoor areas in and around the home providing community connections (e.g., windows, porches, parks, etc.). Little is known about these community design characteristics and their impact on health. The goal of this study is to better understand how older adults utilize these transitional spaces, and the impact on health for those with and without dementia.MethodsTelephone surveys were remotely administered to community‐dwelling cognitively healthy older adults and those with early‐stage dementia. A novel built environment survey assessing various spatial scales of (1) community, and (2) home design features was administered (Table 1). Measures of loneliness, social isolation, mood, anxiety, and cognitive performance were also included. We hypothesized that greater use of residential transitional design features (e.g., windows) and greater access to outdoor spaces (e.g., parks) would be associated with positive health outcomes (e.g., less social isolation and loneliness).Results98 older adults completed the assessment, consisting of 47 healthy adults and 51 cognitively impaired individuals, ages 50 to 90 (M = 73.2, SD = 8.0). Measures of social isolation were related to time spent in outdoor public spaces (r = .25, p = .017). Those who reported more frequent visits with others to community outdoor public spaces had significantly larger social networks (r = .44, p < .001), as did those who reported a higher proportion of natural elements in these spaces (r = .25, p = .017) (Figures 1&2). No such relationships were apparent for depression, anxiety, or loneliness (ps > .05). Those who frequently visited residential transitional spaces in and around the home with others also reported less social isolation (r = .26, p = .013). Additional transitional space features and their uses will be explored in further analyses.ConclusionFor older adults, home and community transitional spaces may allow ways of engaging with the social landscape and mitigate effects of isolation. Further understanding of the built environment's role in social connections can inform design strategies for improving the lives of older adults in the community.

ABSTRACT Flood hazards intensified by climate change increasingly threaten residential areas in flood-prone regions, particularly where wooden architecture is common, such as in Japan. While these houses hold architectural and cultural significance and demonstrate seismic resilience, they remain highly vulnerable to inundation. This study presents a climate-driven flood coexistence strategy through the development and validation of an innovative solution, the piston house system, tailored for Japanese wooden houses. The system enables only the floor to rise vertically within the structural frame in response to floodwater, preserving the integrity of the main structure. Compared to conventional floating house technologies, this design minimizes lateral instability, reduces buoyant force requirements, and maintains both architectural aesthetics and residents’ daily lifestyle patterns. To support this strategy, the study begins with a review of global flood-adaptive housing typologies and assesses their applicability to Japan’s socio-architectural context. The piston house concept is then refined through targeted component design and validated via simplified numerical simulations, examining key performance criteria such as buoyancy capacity, vertical displacement stability, and load transfer through guiding rail systems. Results show that standard underfloor spaces in typical Japanese wooden homes can house sufficient buoyant material and that existing commercial rail components can provide effective vertical control under flood conditions. These findings confirm the technical feasibility and cultural compatibility of the piston house as a scalable, low-impact retrofitting solution. It offers strong potential for application in regions with similar housing typologies and aging populations, supporting long-term resilience and sustainable coexistence with climate-induced flooding.

ABSTRACT Driven by ideology, family time is constructed by adults for the sake of children. ‘Family time’ is a prescriptive term that assumes positive interaction in space, leading families to perform interactive togetherness in the shared spaces of the house. This article develops original thinking on the spatiality of family time, something currently missing from research, despite the definitive role of space. Using copresence as a socio-spatial lens, the article interrogates intergenerational perspectives on time together at home during COVID-19 lockdown, drawing on semi-structured interviews with 45 families in England and Scotland. Family time in the domestic realm appears as a spatial practice resulting in purposive spaces, affective spaces, and spaces of ambivalence. Findings reveal adults’ and children’s different understandings of family time, highlighting not only the challenges that home space can present to family time, but also the significant learning opportunity that this new understanding offers to contemporary housing design.

ABSTRACT This paper expands understandings of home by developing the concept of home territory to comprehend the experiences of older adults who experienced housing relocation and how they reconstituted a sense of home. The study draws on the experiences of 41 older adults who underwent the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) in Singapore. Our conceptualisation of home territory argues that homemaking can extend across multiple locations, other than the old and new home. Home territory emphasises how a person establishes home through processes of territorialisation, reterritorialisation and deterritorialisation. We argue that older adults' experiences of home territorialisation are constituted through sensory experiences, social connections and the placement of material objects within and outside of their immediate domestic space. Connecting with familiar faces and recreating activity rhythms in the new neighbourhood are referred to as home reterritorialisation processes. Travelling beyond the neighbourhood to engage in everyday activities that help them recapture feelings of nostalgia and familiarity constitutes home deterritorialisation. This broader conceptualisation of home territories reflects the fluidity and expansion of geographical boundaries associated with home space, experienced through affects and rhythmic activities.

ABSTRACT This scoping review examined how the management of occupational spaces at home during the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily became of concern. We consider the case of working-from-home (WfH), analyzing publications indexed in the Web of Science database as a reliable sample of accounts on how spaces shaped and were shaped by WfH. Studies connecting WfH and COVID-19, published between March 2020 and April 2022, were identified and explored through network analysis. From these studies, 14 publications referring to spaces are examined as examples of how people attached meaning to spaces in light of their occupation. A similar analysis was conducted on a control group of papers published between May 2022 and April 2024 to understand whether scholars have retrospectively reassessed these dynamics. The findings reveal that space occupies a marginal position in network analysis. The papers considering home spaces devoted to work include a concern with the size of spaces, the effects of sharing spaces on inequality and gender relations, the impact of space constraints on ergonomics and health issues, and the importance of effective space management. The latter is intimately related to the tendency to redefine work as occupation.

ABSTRACT Children’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic have received little attention. During the lockdowns, popular discourses claimed that children were less likely to be affected by the virus and focused on isolation/mental health consequences. Such discourses presented children as passive victims. The experiences of migrant undocumented Latin American children – racialized, undercounted, and considered burdens on society – during this time are especially underrepresented. Drawing on the geographies of care and migration studies, I examine how these young people’s acts of care were essential to the survival of their families, peers, and society. I also consider how such ‘essential care’ sometimes forced youths to sacrifice their well-being and future prospects. The care practices examined here offer a nuanced, complex, and compassionate understanding of young migrant Latin American’s realities – a counternarrative to hegemonic discourse that portrays migrant undocumented children as burdens and criminals in U.S. society. This article draws on conversations with recent Latin American migrant youth to examine their socio-cultural and spatial care practices in various spaces: home, work, and virtual space. Positioning children and youth’s care as essential work (before and during the pandemic) revises how migrant youth agency is theorized in children’s geographies.

ABSTRACT This study explores how Ailyn, a dis/abled language teacher candidate at the intersection of immigrant and bilingual backgrounds, affectively encountered and made sense of her everyday affective experiences of belonging across social, home, schooling, and professional spaces. To this end, this study conceptualizes Ailyn's sense of belonging as emotionally sticky, in order to describe how emotions circulate, attach to, and leave residue on people's bodies to orient their sense of ‘belonging’ in specific moments and in particular spaces. The findings highlight how Ailyn's everyday emotional life was both a site of estrangement and non-belonging, as well as a catalyst for professional and social change, through a process of unsettling those feelings of estrangement and non-belonging. These findings call on us to locate and subvert common tropes surrounding dis/abled bodies at the intersection within language (teacher) education and beyond. In doing so, this study provides pedagogical and policy implications for challenging dominant discourses about dis/abled languaging bodies as having and being a problem while also empowering the affective capacities of these bodies to learn, teach, become, and belong.

Rodents are the most diverse group of mammals, yet the natural history of many species remains poorly understood due to their elusive behavior. In this study, we examined the population structure, home range, space use, and food selection of two sympatric sigmodontine rodents, Euryoryzomys russatus and Sooretamys angouya, in the Morro Grande Forest Reserve, Brazil. E. russatus was more abundant than S. angouya, with its capture rates influenced by temperature. In contrast, the population variation of S. angouya showed no clear relationship with the assessed biotic (fruits and arthropods) or abiotic factors (temperature and precipitation), suggesting different primary regulatory factors for its population or a more generalist ecological strategy. The two species exhibited vertical stratification in space use: S. angouya displayed scansorial and arboreal locomotion, while E. russatus remained strictly terrestrial. Home range size, space use, and mobility were primarily influenced by resource availability, reproductive cycles, and individual body size. Our findings provide insights into the life strategies of these species, specifically regarding their vertical stratification in space use and their distinct responses to environmental resource fluctuations, enhancing our understanding of how sympatric rodents navigate shared spatial and temporal environments.

ABSTRACT Autobiographical works written by those who were refugees as children often provide intricate detail of domestic space, both prior to fleeing and upon arrival at their space of refuge. Child refugees often face ongoing upheaval and uncertainty, as the home spaces they encounter are unfamiliar and fail to meet basic needs like privacy, security, and the opportunity for personalisation. They are also frequently forced to relocate. This article explores how child refugees reconstruct concepts of home in Mohamed & Jamieson’s When Stars are Scattered and Wamariya & Weil’s The Girl Who Smiled Beads. It examines the ways in which spaces that take on the present role of “home” often fail to align with the expected properties of “home” for child refugees who have been separated from familiar environments. Drawing on theories of heterotopias and the development of meaningful space, it examines the ways in which children engage with the imagination and physical place to meet their emotional and psychological needs.

Al-Babaghāʾ ( The Parrot ) is a short film that bears the unmistakable aesthetic mark of Jordanian–Palestinian filmmaker Darin J. Sallam. It depicts the arrival of a Tunisian Jewish family in the city of Haifa after the events of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948 (also known as The Catastrophe) and chronicles the challenges they face when adjusting to their new life in the emergent State of Israel and in the enclosed space of the stolen Palestinian home, which they now occupy. This article argues that Sallam’s film uses the character of the parrot to triangulate and implicate the Tunisian family within a liminal space between hegemonic Zionism and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land and homes. In so doing, Sallam mirrors and links the experiences of Arab Jews with those of Palestinians in dual and interconnected manifestations of exile.

The rapid advancement of intelligent space technologies improves spatial efficiency and productivity but also introduces cognitive challenges. Affordance theory offers a basis for understanding spatial interaction, yet its mechanisms in technology-mediated spaces remain unclear. To address this gap, this study uses the Gioia methodology to explore the functional mechanisms that enhance spatial affordance in intelligent environments. It developed a chain-driven theoretical framework encompassing three dimensions: sensing, action, and control. Based on this framework, the study further conducts a multivariate statistical analysis of 441 survey responses to examine the differences in functional mechanisms across different contexts. Results show that home spaces emphasize environmental perception and spatial control, workplaces display lower demand for dynamic functions, and third spaces highlight the action dimension of spatial representation. This study identifies key elements of spatial affordance, advancing theory and guiding practitioners in defining design constraints and exploring intelligent systems.

Debates on the relationship between urban spaces and creative industries have traversed multiple dimensions and spatialities. Yet, with some notable exceptions, analytical focus rarely lands on domestic space. This article engages with the domestic geographies of creative work in the city to explore the growing centrality of home both as a locus for this work and as material–affective infrastructure sustaining creative production. Drawing on longitudinal research with musicians in Sydney, Australia, we use the lens of creative practitioners’ experience through COVID-19 – wherein home and neighbourhood were necessarily centred – to unpack the intensification of home’s importance to creative work. The article explores how home, understood relationally as encompassing home–neighbourhood, plays a pivotal role as an informal, low-risk and supportive creative production space. Relational spaces of home – enrolling kitchens, bedrooms, home studios and gardens, as well as nearby local venues and scenes in the self-reinforcing affects of creative collaboration and performance – provide vital material–affective infrastructure for the process of collaborative creativity. Participants revealed the geographies of ‘creative homes in creative neighbourhoods’ fashioned via the self-intensifying affects of levity, appreciation and sociality, enabling and supporting ongoing creation. Home–neighbourhoods were central to worlds of creative work, intensified by COVID-19’s tempering effect alongside digitalisation, assetification and financialisation. Foregrounding the intertwining of neoliberal urbanism, housing (in)security and creative work, we conceptualise home–neighbourhood in relation to the emerging geographies of hybrid and home-supported work, with key implications for urban cultural and housing policy.