Urban Nature and Designing for Mental Health

Myers, Zoë

doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9923-8_4

Zoë Myers²

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Abstract

Cities have limit on the space available for nature, so creative ways to improve human wellbeing through the provision of local opportunities to interact with natural elements are vital. This chapter offers five key design principles, and their associated pragmatic strategies, which are low cost, low maintenance, ‘safe to fail’ design interventions that increase opportunities for experiences with nature, without requiring additional land or planning, and potentially decreasing costs of maintenance of local greenspaces, as well as health expenditure in general.

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