Urban nature is widely known to provide wellbeing benefits to people and communities, but evidence particularly from diverse and disadvantaged contexts suggests that these benefits are not experienced equally by all. This paper unpacks this complexity by focussing on how urban nature is interacted with to produce relational wellbeing on two diverse inner-city housing estates undergoing regeneration in London, UK. We focus on the role of both formal institutions and the perceptions that people form of spatial features and their meanings and functions, and the manner in which these intermediaries shape human-nature interactions and the co-production of nature’s wellbeing impact. Our findings from quantitative and qualitative data demonstrate that urban nature contributes to all aspects of a five-dimensional notion of wellbeing. But social housing residents’ and young peoples’ ability to experience these benefits is limited. Informal mechanisms of social control such as perceptions of ownership of space and its appropriate uses, and fear of conflict and crime limit the extent to which residents access greenspaces and the activities within them. Together with formal institutions such as tenancy types, housing targets and criteria for optimisation of site allocation, they produce hierarchies of use of public greenspaces and reinforce existing divisions between people of different demographic and socio-economic status. The findings underline the need to facilitate the establishment of shared and inclusive norms concerning access and appropriate uses of natural spaces in housing and greenspace delivery.

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“它不一定是一个社交空间”——机构、权力和自然的福祉在多样化的市中心社区背景下的好处


众所周知，城市自然为人们和社区提供了福祉的好处，但特别是来自不同和弱势环境的证据表明，并非所有人都能平等地体验到这些好处。本文通过关注城市自然如何相互作用以在英国伦敦两个正在重建的市中心住宅区产生关系幸福感来解开这种复杂性。我们关注正式机构的作用和人们对空间特征的感知及其意义和功能，以及这些中介如何塑造人与自然的互动和自然福祉影响的共同生产。我们从定量和定性数据中获得的结果表明，城市自然对五维幸福感概念的各个方面都有贡献。但社会住房居民和年轻人体验这些好处的能力是有限的。非正式的社会控制机制，例如对空间所有权及其适当用途的看法，以及对冲突和犯罪的恐惧，限制了居民进入绿地及其内部活动的程度。它们与租赁类型、住房目标和优化场地分配标准等正式机构一起，制定了公共绿地使用的层次结构，并加强了不同人口和社会经济地位的人们之间的现有分歧。研究结果强调，需要促进建立关于住房和绿地交付中自然空间的获取和适当利用的共享和包容性规范。