**6. Empirical study to understand the impact of physical and visual access to green space in residential communities for obtaining benefits of physical, social and psychological well being by varied user age groups**

The observational studies for green space were conducted for three selected colonies under each housing typology, Row housing-1, Group housing-2 and Multi unit residential housing-3 respectively. Observational data has been collected for morning and evening hours of weekends during the summer vacation (April to June month) to map the maximum usability of green space with respect to physical, social and psychological well being. And also to examine the impact of physical and visual accessibility to green spaces well being in residential communities. Data has been collected on the basis of physical verification of all activities happening during the selected time, i.e. morning 6:00 to 8:00 AM and evening 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Data has been collected to identify four major factors, i.e.


### **6.1 Case-1: row housing**

Row Housing comprised of 80 number household was selected for observational study. These residential communities have two green spaces (P1 and P2). As depicted in **Figure 6** the P-1 is regular in size and had both visual and physical


#### **Table 2.**

*Key variables addressed in urban open space models.*

**Figure 6.** *Row housing typology and demographic profile. Source: Author.*

access, where as P-2 is irregular in shape and had physical access. Apart from this density mapping has been done to understand the type of mobility users within and around the green space.
