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PATHWAYS TOWARDS THE RENAISSANCE OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: LINKS BETWEEN THE APPRECIATION OF GREEN SPACES IN THE DECAMERON AND DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
(SGEM World Science, 2021, Barbara Solyom, Patricia Szabo)
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Recent research on the use and health benefits of urban green spaces and their role in people’s coping strategies during Covid-19 has been reviewed, in order to be contrasted with the frame story of The Decameron. The landscapes and gardens of escape from the physical and moral impacts of the plague in Boccaccio’s frame story correspond to the role of urban and periurban green spaces in the uncertainty and threats of the current pandemic. The coping strategies in both of the examined cases are similar in that gree...
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Section Media, Communications, and Misinformation in the Digital Age2021