Creating Urban and Workplace Environments for Recovery and Well-being

New Perspectives on Urban Design and Mental Health

Jürgen Beckmann editor Stephan Pauleit editor Michael Kellmann editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Publishing:30th Dec '24

£39.99

This title is due to be published on 30th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Creating Urban and Workplace Environments for Recovery and Well-being cover

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities for recovery, and promote the resilience of individuals in urban communities.

Connecting research from different scientific disciplines, the book provides a broader perspective of creating healthy lifestyle in society. It focuses on mental health and well-being by exploring how urban and workplace environments can be created to enhance and promote recovery. Divided into three parts, the book begins by investigating the multi-dimensional challenges of planning and design for stress reduction and recovery in urban areas. Part 2 concentrates on the design of residential and working environments, including commuting between the two, while Part 3 considers how neighbourhoods and entire cities contribute to or obstruct stress reduction, recovery, and well-being. The book concludes by demonstrating how the insights from the book can be implemented in practice to create restorative and inclusive environments. Bringing together leading experts, the book offers an interdisciplinary perspective for increasing well-being in urban developments.

The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in related fields, including environmental psychologists, urban planners, architects and landscape architects, healthcare staff, and policymakers.

“Based upon the intertwined concepts of human recovery and urban resilience, this important and insightful book shows how well-planned and well-designed urban environments can support our health and resilience. I appreciate the broadening of the focus to include not only living environments but also those environments where we work and commute. Nature and biodiversity are key to environments that promote recovery, resilience and wellbeing, as shown by many of the excellent contributions by leading experts. I can highly recommend this book to all of us who are helping to shape better urban environments.”

Dr Cecil Konijnendijk, Director, Nature Based Solutions Institute, Sweden

"Creating Urban and Workplace Environments for Recovery and Well-being is a collection of timely, relevant and comprehensive stories, reminding us that our daily surroundings, be it urban nature or a workplace, have tremendous impact on human health and well-being. In a time where the demands for multi-functionality of urban open spaces, and especially urban nature and green spaces, is dramatically increasing, this book documents and exemplifies how human health and well-being can be addressed in practice as well as in research, and in all phases from policy making to planning, design, implementation, and long-term management. This is an excellent ‘must-read’ for practitioners as well as researchers in the field.”

Dr Thomas B. Randrup, Professor, Urban Open Space Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

ISBN: 9781032564241

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242 pages