Restorative Environments

Hartig, Terry

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“…Analyses of restorative environments (Hartig, 2004;R. Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989;Ulrich, 1983) typically focus on the psychological and physiological benefits derived by individuals when they retreat from the demands of their everyday environments into relatively serene natural settings (e.g., scenic resorts and wilderness areas).…”

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Psychology in an age of ecological crisis: From personal angst to collective action.

Stokols¹,

Misra²,

Runnerstrom³

et al. 2009

American Psychologist

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confidence: 99%

Psychology in an age of ecological crisis: From personal angst to collective action.

Stokols¹,

Misra²,

Runnerstrom³

et al. 2009

American Psychologist

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“…In particular, research on attention restoration theory, landscape preference studies and favourite places, all identified ways by which natural environments affected wellbeing, including stress reduction, faster illness recovery and long-term improvement in individual health (Herzog, 1984;Kaplan, 1995;Korpela and Hartig, 1996;Hartig and Staats, 2003;Velarde et al 2007). For.…”

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Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

2015

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a b s t r a c tDrawing from research on therapeutic landscapes and relationships between environment, health and wellbeing, we propose the idea of 'healthy blue space' as an important new development Complementing research on healthy green space, blue space is defined as; 'health-enabling places and spaces, where water is at the centre of a range of environments with identifiable potential for the promotion of human wellbeing'. Using theoretical ideas from emotional and relational geographies and critical understandings of salutogenesis, the value of blue space to health and wellbeing is recognised and evaluated. Six individual papers from five different countries consider how health can be enabled in mixed blue space settings. Four sub-themes; embodiment, inter-subjectivity, activity and meaning, document multiple experiences within a range of healthy blue spaces. Finally, we suggest a considerable research agenda -theoretical, methodological and applied -for future work within different forms of blue space. All are suggested as having public health policy relevance in social and public space.

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“…Establishing evidence for the benefits of access to green open spaces has therefore taken on political and economic as well as social significance in recent years. Although varied in detail and approach, restorative environment research is essentially concerned with developing an understanding of environments, in terms of type, scale and quality, which promote the restoration of depleted psychological, physiological and social resources (Kaplan and Kaplan 1989;Ulrich 1979 Ulrich , 1984 Hartig et al 1991;Hartig 2004).If green open spaces, and particularly those with a naturalistic emphasis, are good for urban inhabitants' QoL, one of the main challenges in urban design is how sufficient amounts of green open space can be accommodated as cities become ever denser and more compact. One consequence might be to reduce the availability of land in urban centers for large tracts of green space, generating instead a need to look to smaller types of public open space for respite and escape.…”

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Urban Design and Quality of Life

Rómice

Thwaites

Porta

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Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research

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This chapter deals with those aspects of the design of cities that have been shown to affect quality of life. Whilst direct causal relationships between physical space and well-being are often difficult to establish, physical space certainly does play a significant part in shaping the way we engage with it, informing the individual and collective sense of attachment to our own environment; this will become increasingly important, with the urbanization process predicted to grow, a significant part of which in conditions of informality. The aim of this chapter is to gather relevant and recent research that highlights advances in the study of the reciprocal effect between urban form and urban life and use this to compile an agenda for future thinking, research and practice in the field of socially sustainable urban design.The thrust of this agenda is centered on the concept of control. Since urbanization is an ongoing phenomenon and life in cities is now the norm for the vast majority of people, the traditional role of design needs to be reconsidered to give way to more collaborative and flexible forms of conceptualization, creation, occupation and management of space. This is important in order to relieve pressure on land and institutions, and instill an overall proactive and reciprocal attitude towards space itself, and space as a form of collective and social life.The chapter will highlight that urban quality of life rests on four core themes of: material well-being; emotional and personal development; interpersonal relationships; and physical well-being. These themes provide an organizational framework for exploration of how they are manifest at the metropolitan, neighbourhood and pedestrian levels of scale. KeywordsCities, urban form, control, urban design, quality of life, metropolitan scale, neighbourhood scale, pedestrian scale. Email author OutlineFrom an overview on recent trends in urbanization, we will introduce the notion of control as a key to read the following text and in particular we will: 1. contextualize the concept of control in relation to the fields of both quality of life (QoL) and urban form. In fact, the literature in both domains shows that there is a mutually reciprocal relationship between aspects of quality of life and urban spatial structure; 2. review established and recent research on the relationships between QoL and urban form, structured around metropolitan, neighborhood and pedestrian scales, which illustrates the centrality of control in shaping our cities and allowing quality of life to be fulfilled within them; 3. propose a conceptual framework for socio-spatial urban design, which is sensitive to the relative importance of predictive/structural and loose/flexible urban elements in the production and management of urban space, and their critical role in affording their users a sense of control; 4. suggest the need for a reconceptualization of city form away from an assemblage of material and spatial elements towards a more integrated sense of a city as a mutually d...

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Restorative Environments

Cited by 186 publications

References 14 publications

Psychology in an age of ecological crisis: From personal angst to collective action.

Psychology in an age of ecological crisis: From personal angst to collective action.

Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

Urban Design and Quality of Life

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