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Assessment the Children's Gardens in Damietta Governorate

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Cities become crowded and open areas that children can utilize decrease; therefore, it is extremely vital to have play areas and gardens to meet children's needs and requirements. This study was carried out at all children's gardens, Damietta governorate in the north of Egypt during the period from (2016 to 2019). The aim of this study was to investigate and assess all children's gardens in Damietta governorate (New Damietta, El-sananya child and the family, The Child garden in the Woman and Development Association, Faraskour and El-Zarqa gardens) , for comparing them to the model children's gardens for distribution, location, area, design, existing structures, plants, equipment, toys and their safety and maintenance in order to diagnose the points of weakness and strengths of each garden for the necessary procedures to reach the possibilities of improving or establishing a new children's garden at Damietta governorate. The design for this study was a descriptive research design. The results showed that number of children's gardens at Damietta governorate aren't sufficient or fit with population density. All children's gardens are located at the main streets jammed with traffic that endanger on the children and some gardens like El_sananya face the bars of the train in addition to a great noise pollution except for new Damietta garden which take place at wide street and design closest for the model garden. All children's gardens  area  are  very small if  compared to the global rates as the child is allocated only 0.22 square meters / child., which isn't accordance the international standards for children under the age of six needs 8-10m2  except for New Damietta garden where it is 20243 m2, The design of these gardens mostly does not follow the scientific standards, but it is determine by the available space and insufficient resources. Neglecting a large part of most gardens by plants optimally. Some poisonous and cactus plants have to be eliminated from the children gardens. Most of the play equipment in the studied gardens aren't safe for children use. They are made from unsuitable materials, not according to safety measures, crowded in limited. Inspection and maintenance of these equipment are lost. In addition, some electrical and mechanical toys doesn't subjected daily inspection and maintenance periodically which can hurt children. So it is necessary to establish model gardens or modify the existing gardens as recommended in this study in order to meet the standards of the model gardens. Finally the results of this landscaping study and the recommendations have to be presented to the local administration leaders in the city for consideration and benefit of the children.

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10.21608/jpp.2019.53553

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Garden location, children's garden, requirements, Visitors, structure elements and plants

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Nahed

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Rashed

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Vegetable and Ornamental Department, Faculty of Agriculture. Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

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rashed_nahed@du.edu.eg

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A. F.

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Hamaiel

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Vegetable and Ornamental Dept., Fac. of Agric. Damietta Univ., Damietta, Egypt

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E. A.

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El-Boraie

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Vegetable and Ornamental Dept., Fac. of Agric. Damietta Univ., Damietta, Egypt

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M. A.

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Mansour

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Vegetable and Ornamental Dept., Fac. of Agric. Damietta Univ., Damietta, Egypt

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10

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7

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8187

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2019-07-01

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2019-07-18

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2019-07-01

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567

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2090-3669

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2090-374X

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Journal of Plant Production

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Assessment the Children's Gardens in Damietta Governorate

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22 Jan 2023