Mccay Layla - Restorative Cities Urban Design For Mental Health And Wellbeing - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Overcrowding noise and air pollution long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well - being of city - dwellers. With mental healthcare services under increasing pressure could a better approach to urban design and planning provide a solution? The restrictions faced by city residents around the world during the Covid - 19 pandemic has brought home just how much urban design can affect our mental health and created an imperative to seize this opportunity. Restorative Cities explores a new way of designing cities one which places mental health and wellness at the forefront. Establishing a blueprint for urban design for mental health it examines a range of strategies from sensory architecture to place - making for creativity and community and brings a genuinely evidence - based approach that will appeal to designers and planners health practitioners and researchers alike - and provide compelling insights for anyone who cares about how our surroundings affect us. Written by a psychiatrist and public health specialist and an environmental psychologist with extensive experience of architectural practice this much - needed work will prompt debate and inspire built environment students and professionals to think more about the positive potential of their designs for mental well - being.
Title: Restorative Cities Urban Design For Mental Health And Wellbeing
Author(s): Mccay Layla
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350112889
Pages: 272 Pages, 62 Colour Illus
Publication Date: 8/12/2021
Category: City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects