urban planning – A New Vision for Mental Health

What Happens in Your Brain When You Walk Down the Street? Implications of Architectural Proportions, Biophilia, and Fractal Geometry for Urban Science

Author: Editorial 4th February 2022 0 Comments

This article – published in the Urban Science journal – looks at how urban architecture and design affects well-being and stress levels. The abstract says: “This article reviews current research in visual urban perception. The temporal sequence of the first few…
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aesthetics, Architectural Proportions, architecture, beauty, biophilia, Culture & Society, eye-tracking, fractal geometry, neuroscience, traditional architecture, urban architecture, urban planning, Urban Science, wellbeing

Happy by Design: A Guide to Architecture and Mental Wellbeing

Author: Editorial 3rd September 2020 0 Comments

This book has been written by Ben Channon. The publishers say: “Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn’t we have a better understanding of how they make us feel?…
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architecture, Ben Channon, books, urban architecture, urban design, urban planning

Psychology & The City: The Hidden Dimension

Author: Editorial 2nd September 2020 0 Comments

This book has been co-authored by Charles Landry and Chris Murray. The publishers say: “Cities are the most complex and important of all human inventions. Without them, much of the world we know could not exist. Why then, when over 50%…
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books, Charles Landry, Chris Murray, urban design, urban planning, urban psychology

Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing

Author: Editorial 17th August 2020 0 Comments

This book has been edited by Christopher T. Boyko, Rachel Cooper and Nick Dunn. The publishers say: “Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing draws on original research that brings together dimensions of cities we know have a bearing on our health and wellbeing…
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Christopher T. Boyko, cities, Nick Dunn, Rachel Cooper, Research, urban design, urban planning

The Creative Bureaucracy & Its Radical Common Sense

Author: Editorial 7th August 2020 0 Comments

This short book is co-authored by Charles Landry and Margie Caust. It addresses a subject – namely bureaucracy and the civil servants that work in its various departments – that affects all of us, has great relevance to societal wellbeing and…
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books, bureaucracy, Charles Landry, Margie Caust, urban planning, wellbeing

Europe’s first Urban Psychology Summit heralded great success

Author: Editorial 16th July 2020 0 Comments

“We know more about what makes a good habitat for mountain gorillas than we do about living in our own cities” Danish architect Jan Gehl Chris Murray reports for the Urban Psyche website: “CITY, PSYCHOLOGY, PLACE: AN URBAN PSYCHOLOGY SUMMIT The global…
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Chris Murray, psychology, urban design, urban planning, Urban Psyche

Residential green space in childhood is associated with lower risk of psychiatric disorders from adolescence into adulthood

Author: Editorial 13th January 2020 0 Comments

This research article has been co-authored by Kristine Engemann, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Lars Arge, Constantinos Tsirogiannis, Preben Bo Mortensen and Jens-Christian Svenning. As published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS), the abstract says: “Urban…
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Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, children and adolescents, Constantinos Tsirogiannis, Denmark, epidemiology, geographic information systems, green spaces, Jens-Christian Svenning, Kristine Engemann, Lars Arge, Preben Bo Mortensen, psychological ecosystem, residential green space, urban environment, urban planning, wellbeing