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In 2009 they won the award for the 'UK's Best Play Space' at the
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with play structures. The most frequent injury to children on playgrounds is a fracture of the upper limb resulting from falls from climbing apparatuses. The second most common cause of injury to children on playgrounds is falls from slides. Fall heights are the largest safety issue for most safety
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Nature playgrounds use natural landscapes, natural vegetation, and materials in a creative and interactive way for child play and exploration. Nature playscapes are created for the enhancement of a child's curiosity, imagination, wonder, discovery, to nurture a child's connectedness and affinity for
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Playscapes are not limited to public parks and schools. Select hospitals in Sweden and North
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Playscapes may or may not incorporate traditional playground equipment like swings, slides, and climbers. When they do so, they may incorporate slides or climbers in a more cohesive way than typical playgrounds doâoften into embankments. Playscapes may also offer a wide range of open-ended play
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Playscapes are not intimidating regardless of ability or fitness level. Playscapes have no central location, or prescribed area of play. They are open-ended spaces that entice children to use their imagination and creativity. Playscapes do not prescribe in an area that encourages a physical
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Play components may include earth shapes (sculptures), environmental art, indigenous vegetation (trees, shrubs, grasses, flowers, lichens, mosses), boulders or other rock structures, dirt and sand, natural fences (stone, willow, wooden), textured pathways, and natural water features.
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Schalander, E. (2004). âHorticultural therapy: the âhealing gardenâ and gardening in rehabilitation measures at Danderyd Hospital Rehabilitation Clinic, Sweden.â Pediatric Rehabilitation. 7(4):
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and designers are increasingly using the term to express areas of cities that encourage interaction and enjoyment for all ages. The term was probably first used in the mid-twentieth century, possibly first attributable to the
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Learning Initiative and Reston, VA: National Wildlife Federation.
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Izenstark, Dina (2014). "Connecting children and families to nature: natural playscapes offer an organic alternative play environment to promote creativity and encourage the development of a conservation consciousness".
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Playscapes are designed to eliminate fall heights. Playscapes have rolling hills and fallen logs rather than a central play structure with monkey bars. Playscapes have much lower injury rates than standard playgrounds.
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Fjortoft, I., and Sageie, J. (2000). âThe
Natural Environment as a Playground for Children: Landscape Description and Analysis of a Natural Landscape.â Landscape and Urban Planning. 48(1/2): 83-97.
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Playscapes combat the issue of fall heights by using topography changes for children to climb and experience changes in height. Companies in Canada have made strides in reducing fall height by using
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The technological age has changed the ways in which children play. It is therefore up to parents, communities and schools to re-introduce to children what it means to play in the outdoors.
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Studtmann, K. (1998). âLandscape Interventions: New Directions for the Design of Childrenâs Outdoor Play Environments.â Landscape and Urban Planning. 42(2-4): 191-205.
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North
Carolina State University Landscape Design professor, Robin C. Moore, has been designing and studying both nature playgrounds and urban playscapes for many years. His 2014 book,
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Eckbo used the term playscape to refer to a play landscape his firm Eckbo, Dean Austin
Landscape Architects designed for the Longwood urban renewal project in Cleveland, Ohio:
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Malone, K., and
Tranter, P. (2003). âChildrenâs Environmental Learning and the Use, Design and Management of Schoolgrounds.â Children, Youth and Environments. 13(2).
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Institute Communication & Presentation Award, Horticultural Weekly Award and Children and Young Peoples Services Award for genuine community design engagement.
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Fissel, D., Pattison, G., and Howard, A. (2005). âSeverity of playground fractures: play equipment versus standing height falls.â Injury Prevention. 11: 337-339.
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options that allow people to be creative and use their imagination including sand or earth to sculpt and blocks or other materials to build with.
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Wells, N. (2000). âAt home with nature Effects of âGreennessâ on Childrenâs Cognitive Functioning.â Environment and Behaviour. 32(6): 775-795.
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