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The Landscape Performance Series Fast Fact Library is a searchable collection of landscape benefits derived from published research. Each includes a citation and links to the full article when available.

This resource is intended to showcase landscape’s multiple and sometimes surprising environmental, economic and social benefits and to help you make the case for sustainable landscape solutions in your community, with your clients, or on Capitol Hill.

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2002
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Senior citizens in urban areas have a higher longevity when the environment around their home includes space for taking a stroll, tree-lined streets, and less noise from traffic, and when their homes have more hours of sunlight. Living near parks and tree-lined streets has the greatest effect, adding over 3 years to seniors’ lives, while having the space available to take walks was the second-most important of the factors studied, adding 2.7 years to seniors’ lives.
Nakamura, Keiko, Takano, Takehito, Watanabe, Masafumi, (2002). Urban residential environments and senior citizens’ longevity in megacity areas: The importance of walkable green spaces. Journal Epidemiol Community Health, 56, 913-918.
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