Healthy Landscapes

Theory and Design Approaches to Promote Health in Urban Communities

AvBin Jiang,Lan Luo

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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This book responds to the need for a comprehensive and detailed theoretical framework and systemic design approaches to improve mental, physical, social, behavioral, and ecological health in urban environments.Although rapid urban development has created enormous economic and social value, it has also brought problems that 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 around the world. This is used to construct a provisional framework consisting of ten theoretical pathways for the environment to promote mental, physical,social, behavioral, and ecological 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 24 theoretical pathways, the authors go on to identify 67 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-08
Mått:178 x 254 x 25 mm
Vikt:870 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032510972

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Bin Jiang is an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture and the founding director of the Urban Environments and Human Health Lab at the University of Hong Kong (lab website: https://uehh .hku .hk).Lan Luo is an Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Post-doctoral Fellow and a Senior Research Project Manager in the Urban Environments and Human Health Lab at the University of Hong Kong.Xueming Liu is the laboratory manager and a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Urban Environments and Human Health Lab at the University of Hong Kong.

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Foreword by Prof. William C. Sullivan Foreword by Prof. Kongjian Yu Preface Part Ⅰ Theoretical framework with pathways and key landscape design principles to promote health in urban communities 1. Introduction of the book: Background, challenges, and solutions 2. Mental health: Theoretical framework with pathways and key landscape design principles 3. Physical health: Theoretical framework with pathways and key landscape design principles 4. Social health: Theoretical framework with pathways and key landscape design principles 5. Behavioral health: Theoretical framework with pathways and key landscape design principles 6. Ecosystem health: Theoretical framework with pathways and key landscape design principles Part I Summary Part Ⅱ Systematic landscape design guidelines and detailed strategies to promote health in urban communities 7. General plan for healthy landscapes 8. Main entrance landscapes 9. Central courtyard landscapes 10. Recreational fitness trail landscapes 11. Senior center landscapes 12. Exercises and sports complex landscapes 13. Community center landscapes 14. Landscapes in the natural playground 15. Sensory garden landscapes 16. Swimming and water recreation space landscapes 17. Sublime landscapes