Design criteria of a healing blue-way water related experience using healing landscape

Abstract

This paper is a attempt to fill a knowledge gap in the field of blue-ways and healing landscapes. Since mental health is the fulcrum of human behavior, there is a pressing need to develop a design method for improving mental health. This research aims to look at rivertreams in a different way identifying the concept of blue-ways and how to integrate river streams with their surrounding urban setteings and riverfronts landscape to create a comprehensive healing river journey.