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Presenting the Theoretical Framework of Stress Relief Urban Planning

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This chapter describes the concept of stress relief urban planning first. Then, according to the identified stressful factors, indicators have been identified, and relationships between them are defined using content analysis. Finally, the theoretical framework and conceptual model of this planning are presented.

After introducing the general indicators of stress-relief urban planning, due to the very low frequencies of some indicators and the difficulty of drawing a conceptual model due to the great number of indicators, the interrelationships between the indicators were examined using the Maxqda software and analyzing the content of relevant research, and it was tried to identify the most important indicators considering their interrelationships and frequencies.

How the dimensions of stress-relief urban planning interact with each other is very important. For this purpose, after examining the relationships between the effective indicators in this section using the (Maxqda) software, the relationships between the dimensions abovementioned were examined.

In this chapter, after identifying the relationship between urban mental health and urban stress, the general research indicators are presented in the form of the theoretical framework and the relationships between them are shown. Moreover, according to the relationships presented in the previous sections and the most important and influential general research indicators, the research conceptual model is presented. According to this figure, urban mental health and urban stress mutually influence each other (directly and indirectly). The indicators extracted from theoretical foundations are classified into two groups.

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Jalilisadrabad, S., Behzadfar, M., Moghani Rahimi, K. (2023). Presenting the Theoretical Framework of Stress Relief Urban Planning. In: Stress Relief Urban Planning. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4202-2_7

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