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Open space reserve

Open space reserve is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Open space reserve rather than just read about it. In short: An open space reserve (also called open space preserve, open space reservation, and green space) is an area of protected or conserved land or water on which development is indefinitely set aside. The purpose of an open space reserve may include the preservation or conservation of a community or region's rural natural or historic character; the conservation or preservation of a land or water area for the sake of recr…

Key takeaways

Open space reserve belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Open space reserve to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Open space reserve from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

An open space reserve (also called open space preserve, open space reservation, and green space) is an area of protected or conserved land or water on which development is indefinitely set aside. The purpose of an open space reserve may include the preservation or conservation of a community or region's rural natural or historic character; the conservation or preservation of a land or water area for the sake of recreational, ecological, environmental, aesthetic, or agricultural interests; or the management of a community or region's growth in terms of development, industry, or natural resources extraction. Open space reserves may be urban, suburban, or rural; they may be actual designated areas of land or water, or they may be zoning districts or overlays where development is limited or controlled to create undeveloped areas of land or water within a community or region. They may be publicly owned or owned by non-profit or private interests. A certain amount of overlap occurs with similar planning and conservation terms. Protected areas are open space reserves in which certain resources indigenous to the landscape are protected as opposed to conserved. Urban open space specifically refers to open space reserves within an urban setting; such may include natural landscapes or manicured urban parkland.

Greenways Greenways are linear open space reserves, linear corridors that span interconnected open space reserves, or linear chains of connected open space reserves. A green belt is a general area of open space surrounding an urban area. Green infrastructure is the total mass and viability of undeveloped, natural, and agricultural land and waterways, protected or not protected, within a particular community or region. Nature reserves and wildlife refuges are areas of open space set aside for the sake of protecting non-human species. National parks, state parks, and municipal parks, recreation areas, and reservations are types of open space reserves managed by government agencies for the primary purpose of passive or active human enjoyment. National forests, state forests, and municipal forests are types of open space reserves set aside for the primary purpose of forest conservation.

Flood control Flood control projects and protected ecological research areas may also be considered open space reserves secondary to their primary purpose.

Distributation There is growing evidence that open space is unequally distributed based on race and class, particularly in the US state of California, leading to concerns regarding Open Space Accessibility in California and other areas.

Examples Arastradero Preserve near Palo Alto, California, USA Grove of Old Trees near Occidental, California, USA Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, Simi Hills, California, USA.

See also Protected area Urban open space Greenway (landscape) Green infrastructure Green belt Greenfield land Nature reserve

References

Open Space 101 Landscope America. Retrieved December 30, 2008. "What is open space?" USDA Forest Service. Retrieved December 30, 2008. Chapter 18.11 Open Space Reserve and Urban Reserve Land Use. (2008). Half Moon Bay Municipal Code. Retrieved December 30, 2008. Definition of Open Space Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine. Town of Shelburne, Vermont. Retrieved December 30, 2008. 11-935.01 Arizona State legislature. Retrieved December 30, 2008. Open Space Land Application Schedule: "Line 5: The statutory definition of Open Space is as follows. . ." Maine.gov. Retrieved December 29, 2008.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Open space reserve

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Open space reserve claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Open space reserve before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Open space reserve ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Open space reserve

In research: Open space reserve appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Open space reserve in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Open space reserve is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Protected areas, Regional parks, Urban studies and planning terminology, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Open space reserve outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Open space reserve in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Open space reserve means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Open space reserve out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Open space reserve in simple terms?

Why does Open space reserve matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Open space reserve?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Open space reserve.