Healthy Urban Landscapes

How can Landscape Architecture interventions mitigate or remedy disparity in low socioeconomic multicultural communities 'Research project, from the perspective of a 4th year Landscape Architecture student'

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Urban and Garden Design - For our heath

Urban design and the design of garden spaces is increasingly becoming one and the same thing as we strive to rectify past mistakes. The great Frank Lloyd Wright once said “The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.” That was in the past, now we have a

Urban design and the design of garden spaces is increasingly becoming one and the same thing as we strive to rectify past mistakes. The great Frank Lloyd Wright once said “The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.”   That was in the past, now we have a

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Australia’s Best Vertical and Rooftop Gardens - STRATA DATA

Research published in 2013 in the journal Psychological Science by the University of Exeter Medical School revealed an insightful link between man and nature. After analysing the mental health data of 10,000 city dwellers and using high-resolution mapping to track where they had lived over a period of 18 years, they discovered that people living near green spaces reported less …

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10 Landscape Design Projects That Turn Damaged and Neglected Spaces Into Healthy, Beautiful Environments

Here are 10 adaptive reuse landscape design projects that have turned damaged and neglected spaces around the world into beautiful, healthy and meaningful new environments for everyone to enjoy.

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(via Daldy Street Park – Auckland | Architecture Now)

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The Mystery of Chinese Garden Design Reflected in the Sunken Gardens of Beijing - Landscape Architects Network

The Mysteries of Traditional Chinese Garden Design are Reflected in the Beijing Sunken Gardens by Plasma Studio and Groundlab.

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Turenscape Design Outstanding River Park - Landscape Architects Network

The Floating Gardens River Park by Turenscape is an example of how to successfully take cutting edge design and merge it with existing ecological needs,

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The Stunning Yanweizhou Park Recaptures Lost Ecology - Landscape Architects Network

An Exclusive review of Yanweizhou Park by Turenscape, in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, China.

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From Landscape Architecture to Conservation Agriculture | Thomas Woltz |...

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Landscape and City

As is not the same a boulevard that a narrow street, a path can give different sensations as " get dressed "

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This paper explores how a health impact assessment (HIA) process was used to forge closer links between health and urban design agendas in Manukau City. The case study reveals many common interests among public health and urban designers/planners, andalso reveals how a public health-oriented approach was able to engage people across a range of sectors, along with Māori stakeholders, to influence long-term planning for a city centre. 

Health-promoting urban design will emerge as a central planning issue over the next decades, underpinned by arguments for containing the car, increasing pedestrian friendlyenvironments, controlling out-of-town shopping, creating local facilities within walking distance, making cities more compact and investing in public transport

(Landry 2006).

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Active Transport Aesthetics  Connectivity Environments for All People Mixed Density Mixed Land Use Parks and Open Space Safety and Surveillance  Social Inclusion Supporting Infrastructure When these design principles are integrated and applied correctly, they can create an environment that supports greater levels of physical activity, reduces the incidence of obesity and improves mental health outcomes.

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Restoring Health & Wellbeing to Tamaki

2014 Negotiated research assignment for Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. How can Streetscape and Public Open Space Design Improve the Health of Low - Socio Economic Communities?

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Future Cities Noah Addis

"Future Cities is a series of photographs of informal settlements and unplanned developments in the world’s cities. These communities take on many forms, but they share a common history. People, mostly migrants from rural areas, came to the city in search of work. They were in need of affordable housing that could not be found on the open market. So they claimed a small piece of unused land and built a home. Other residents followed, and the result was a new community within the city."

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If Everybody Had An Ocean, Could We Surf Our Way To Mental Health?

Lwandile Mntanywa is zipping up his wet suit. The tall, soft-spoken high school junior comes to Cape Town’s Monwabisi Beach almost every day after school and starts running when he sees the water. “I can see the waves are cooking, I will run fast as I can,” says the 18-year-old.

Before he began surfing, he was running as fast as he could — in the wrong direction.

Mntanywa grew up in a shack just up the road. For him, childhood meant dealing with a terrible secret. His dad was physically and emotionally abusing his mom — usually while drunk.

Mntanywa couldn’t do anything to stop his dad’s violent behavior: “If you try to stop him, he will push you away, [saying] ‘Don’t mind my business, I’m just doing my business with your mother.’ “

One day, things got really bad. His dad chased his mom out into the street with a knife and tried to stab her. Neighbors spilled out of their homes, shouting at him to stop. Mntanywa’s mom escaped and went to live with her mother for a while. Eventually she moved back in.

And the violence continued.

Meanwhile, Mntanywa started developing symptoms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress. He couldn’t fall asleep without music and had trouble concentrating in school.

None of his teachers knew what was happening. They simply asked why he was doing poorly on his tests. He would usually respond by saying: “I will do great next time.” In fact, no one besides his siblings knew what was happening at his home.

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Photo:  They’re not just surfing for fun. Youngsters in Cape Town’s Waves for Change are facing mental health problems. With the help of a surfing mentor and a counselor, they can learn how to cope. (Anders Kelto/NPR)

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Mieres Social Housing

Designed by zigzag architecture, the project re-models the traditional block. Defining a street edge and central courtyard, the block occupies the same footprint as a conventional orthogonal one, b...