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Book SynopsisOvercrowding, 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 af
Trade Review[A]n inspiring, educational, and succinct tour of the intersection of applied psychology, urban planning and design, and public health ...
Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing is both prudent and empowering ... Readers of the book are left with what feels like an accessible and modern handbook about how to envision and create humane urban settings that tend to the many psychosocial factors that matter now – and will for generations to come. * Cities & Health *
A welcome, timely and important addition to the existing healthy urban planning literature ...
Restorative Cities provides the evidence, the inspiration and a call to action. Now we have to act. * Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health *
More than ever, we need the places where we live, work and play to support our mental health. For those creating the built environment,
Restorative Cities offers deep health expertise translated into the practical strategies that respond to today's demand for cities that prioritise their residents' health. * Joanna Frank, President & CEO, Center for Active Design *
Post-Covid 19, cities must be equitable and sustainable, and people should live more healthily and happily.
Restorative Cities shows how we can do this, by focussing urbanism on mental health and wellbeing. * Gil Penalosa, Founder and Chair of 8 80 Cities, Ambassador for World Urban Parks *
Timely ... A useful contribution to the interdisciplinary nature of urban design. * Urban Design Group *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction to Restorative Urbanism 2. The Green City 3. The Blue City 4. The Sensory City 5. The Neighbourly City 6. The Active City 7. The Playable City 8. The Inclusive City 9. The Restorative City References Index
