Healthy Landscapes

Theory and Design Approaches to Promote Health in Urban Communities
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-51097-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

This book responds to the need for a comprehensive and detailed theoretical framework and systemic design guidelines to improve mental, physical, and social health in urban environments.

Although rapid urban development has created enormous economic and social value, it has also brought problems which have posed serious threats to the health of urban residents. Healthy Landscapes begins by reviewing practical experience, as well as theoretical and scientific evidence, from several related disciplines from around the world. This is used to construct a provisional framework consisting of ten theoretical pathways for the environment to promote mental, physical, and social health: relieving mental stress; restoring direct attention; promoting environmental preference; promoting sublime and transcendent perceptions; promoting active lifestyles; preventing the spread of infectious diseases; promoting ecological services; enhancing social support; promoting the sense of belonging; and improving the sense of security. From these ten theoretical pathways, the authors go on to identify thirty-six critical environmental characteristics for creating healthy communities, which are used to inform the design guidelines they go on to apply to  community environment scenarios.

This book will be an invaluable resource for students of landscape architectural design, architecture, and urban design. It will also be an essential tool for design professionals and urban administrators who want a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental theories of healthy communities with design guidelines supported by scientific evidence.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jiang, Bin

Luo, Lan

Liu, Xueming

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Bin Jiang is an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture and the founding director of the Urban Environments & Human Health Lab at the University of Hong Kong.

Lan Luo is Post-doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture and a Senior Research Project Manager in Urban Environments and Human Health Lab at the University of Hong Kong

Xueming Liu is the Lab manager in the Urban Environment and Human Health (UEHH lab), at the University of Hong Kong