An Explorative Study on the Identification and Evaluation of Restorative Streetscape Elements

Yin, Yuting; Shao, Yuhan; Xue, Zhenying; Thwaites, Kevin; Zhang, Kexin

doi:10.15302/j-laf-0-020005

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“…The front garden is believed to have an established cultural role, as evidenced by choice of owners and designers, and delivering provisioning services is ensured by the presence of plants and animals. Based on semi-structured interviews with 44 gardeners in Barcelona, similar results were obtained [62]. In this study, most ecosystem services identified by the gardeners belonged to the cultural ones, and only one supporting ecosystem service was identified.…”

Section: Es Preferred According To the Garden Designerssupporting

confidence: 78%

“…A good many authors underline the positive influence of gardens for maintaining biodiversity and quality of life, e.g., [11,61]. Research on ecosystem services in vernacular gardens where authors focus on environmental and social values of street greenery stands out [38,62]. However, compared to the abundant studies of potential in delivering ES by different vegetation types, studies of particular attributes of vernacular gardens that influence the delivery of these services are relatively uncommon.…”

Section: Ecosystem Services (Es) Provided By Urban Greenerymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Periurban Streetscape—Vernacular Front Gardens and Their Potential to Provide Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Warsaw, Poland

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At the time of reflection on green justice, when the role of public green spaces is increasing, it is worth paying attention to vernacular greenery, especially in single-family residential areas on city outskirts which property owners arrange in front parts of plots. The paper’s aim is to show that vernacular front gardens (VFG) can act as missing public space and at the same time have the attributes of public green space, providing ecosystem services (ES). In order to confirm these assumptions, we carried out a VFG’s attributes inventory and a survey on garden designers. We identified dominating garden features and conducted a cluster analysis of the gardens based on their characteristics. The basis for building periurban streetscape in single-family housing estates is the visual inclusiveness of VFGs. They provide all the ES groups, playing representational, natural and recreational roles as well as serving as locations of edible plants production. Streets in residential sites, thanks to VFG, can be treated as real green public spaces creating a type of green area accessible not only to owners but also to pedestrian eyes. We conclude that our results can be valuable for city planning but also for the professional garden designers.

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confidence: 78%

Section: Ecosystem Services (Es) Provided By Urban Greenerymentioning

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Periurban Streetscape—Vernacular Front Gardens and Their Potential to Provide Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Warsaw, Poland

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“…Nevertheless, the delivery of restorative street design in design practices has so far been restricted, due partly to the lack of a specific standard instructing how restorative a street should be. Recently, a new perspective for considering street restorativeness has emerged via a series of studies [2,20]. When collated together, these studies seem to argue that the design of street restorativeness should be balanced with other qualities associated with inherent street functions, since urban streets are not created simply for leisure purposes.…”

Section: Studies Of Restorative Streetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is particularly true when a common open space possesses restorative qualities, meaning they can help people recover as part of their everyday lives. The restorative benefits of urban streets have, therefore, attracted a lot of academic attention in recent years due to the high proportion of acreage they take up in urban areas, as well as the inevitable role they play in the outdoor lives of city dwellers [2,3]. However, the efficient delivery of restorative street design is still limited, as no specific standard has been set to offer instructions regarding how restorative a street should be.…”

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Balancing Street Functionality and Restorative Benefit: Developing an Expectation–Current Approach to Street Design

Shao

2022

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The importance of creating a better living environment that is conducive to public health has become increasingly prominent in the post-epidemic era. The restorative potential of urban streets has been emphasized recently, as these spaces of our everyday lives may provide people with restorative experiences. However, there is still no efficient way of delivering restorative street design, because no specific standard has been set to indicate the form such streets should take. A street has limited spaces but multiple uses; hence, the delivery of restorativeness is largely restricted by street contexts. This research proposes that this standard should be determined by the balance between street functions and restorative benefits. An expectation-current approach that involves street functions, street typologies, restorative evaluations and users’ expectations was developed in conjunction with its application to four pairs of streets. Each pair included one typical street type determined by its inherent function, and one corresponding case-study street. The restorative expectations and the streets’ current levels of restorativeness were evaluated, and their differences were used to indicate how and to what degree street-related restorative benefits should be optimized. Restorative design implications of the four case-study streets were then summarized accordingly. The expectation–current approach not only serves as a rigorous and sustainable method by stressing the balance between street functions and restorativeness, but also has the potential for application in broader assessment studies, especially when multiple environmental qualities need to be considered, with the advantage of the extensive involvement of people.

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“…In recent years, because of their natural characteristics, the streets have received attention from scholars for their potential healing effects. Shao et al researched urban commuter streets and found that “terrain undulations” and “green plants” could promote subjects' healing experience; elements such as buildings, walls, and cars would hinder subjects from obtaining healing perception to varying degrees ( 15 ). Jiang et al and Xu et al found a positive correlation between green visibility and healing potential in urban life-type streets through virtual media studies such as images and that the more open the street interface, the more attractive it was ( 16 , 17 ).…”

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Research on the Healing Potential of Rural Community Streets From the Perspective of Audiovisual Integration: A Case Study of Four Rural Communities in China

Ren

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Rural communities have become a hot topic in academic circles because of their graceful natural environment and great healing potential. However, existing research still lacks attention to the street space in rural communities and rarely considers its integrated visual and soundscape design in terms of their effect on public health. As a result, the healing potential of rural community streets cannot be fully used in design practice. Relevant audiovisual materials were collected from a field investigation in four rural communities in southwestern China. Based on these data, the subjective and objective healing index data of subjects under comprehensive audiovisual conditions were collected and analyzed through laboratory experiments. The results revealed that type of street space affects healing potential, and the artificial–natural enclosed and natural semi-enclosed streets are the street types with the best healing effect. When the total sound pressure level was 55dB(A), the sound combination with birdsong accounting for 70% had a significant positive effect on improving the healing effect of rural community streets. In contrast, the sound combination with birdsong accounting for 50% or less had no significant effect on improving healing. The subjective healing perception of street space in rural communities was significantly positively correlated with aesthetic preferences. There was also a significant correlation between subjective healing perception and physiological index data in the audiovisual combination. This research explored the impact of different types of street space and sound combinations on the healing effect of rural community streets in an integrated audiovisual environment and provided a scientific basis for the healing landscape design of rural community streets in an integrated audiovisual environment. It was expected to provide new ideas for the construction of rural community landscapes, including acoustic landscapes, to promote physical and mental healing.

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An Explorative Study on the Identification and Evaluation of Restorative Streetscape Elements

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Periurban Streetscape—Vernacular Front Gardens and Their Potential to Provide Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Warsaw, Poland

Periurban Streetscape—Vernacular Front Gardens and Their Potential to Provide Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Warsaw, Poland

Balancing Street Functionality and Restorative Benefit: Developing an Expectation–Current Approach to Street Design

Research on the Healing Potential of Rural Community Streets From the Perspective of Audiovisual Integration: A Case Study of Four Rural Communities in China

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