Our Nature in/of the City

Myers, Zoë

doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9923-8_1

Our Nature in/of the City

Zoë Myers²

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This chapter presents the rationale for needing to urgently turn our attention to how urban stressors, ecological degradation and climate change can be detrimental for our mental health and wellbeing, and the potential for embodied and relational interactions with urban ecologies to counter this. This chapter introduces the applicability of neuroscience to design, and how it contributes to a complementary perspective. Here it is argued that combining a land use approach focusing on leftover, in-between land, with allowing wild urban natures, will be most equitable, accessible, and accumulative for providing opportunities for nature interactions that can foster mental health and wellbeing.

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Myers, Z. (2020). Our Nature in/of the City. In: Wildness and Wellbeing. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9923-8_1

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