Phillips Richard, Evans Bethan
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK.
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, UK.
Urban Stud. 2018 Feb;55(3):639-654. doi: 10.1177/0042098016632699. Epub 2016 Feb 17.
The city is not just a context for friendships or a problem to be solved through them; it can be a catalyst for these relationships, sparking and strengthening connections between individuals and groups. Shared experiences of and curiosity in cities - expressed through practices that include revisiting familiar places and exploring others for the first time - can draw people together in beneficial ways. These principles underpin a health and wellbeing agenda, pioneered in Liverpool, which encourages people to 'take notice' and 'connect' - two of five 'ways to wellbeing' promoted through the Liverpool Decade of Health and Wellbeing. This paper focusses upon one particular set of schemes and relationships which brings all this into focus: befriending schemes designed to support people with dementia, which engage with objects and places as catalysts for connection. These observations shed a broader light upon the meanings and uses of friendship, with particular reference to cities.
城市不仅仅是友谊产生的背景，也不是一个需要通过友谊来解决的问题；它可以成为这些关系的催化剂，激发并加强个人与群体之间的联系。人们对城市的共同体验和好奇心——通过诸如重访熟悉之地以及首次探索其他地方等行为表现出来——能够以有益的方式将人们聚集在一起。这些原则支撑着一项在利物浦首创的健康与福祉议程，该议程鼓励人们“留意”和“建立联系”——这是利物浦健康与福祉十年所倡导的五种“幸福之道”中的两种。本文聚焦于一组特定的计划和关系，它们将所有这些清晰地呈现出来：旨在支持痴呆症患者的交友计划，这些计划将物品和场所作为建立联系的催化剂。这些观察为友谊的意义和用途带来了更广泛的启示，尤其是与城市相关的方面。
