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Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being
In this book Gayle Souter-Brown explores the social, economic and environmental benefits of developing greenspace for health and well-being. She examines the evidence behind the positive effects of designed landscapes, and explains effective methods and approaches which can be put into practice by those seeking to reduce costs and add value through outdoor spaces. Using principles from sensory, therapeutic and healing gardens, Souter-Brown focuses on landscape’s ability to affect health, education and economic outcomes. Already valued within healthcare environments, these design guidelines for public and private spaces extend the benefits throughout our towns and cities. Covering design for school grounds to public parks, public housing to gardens for stressed executives, this richly illustrated text builds the case to justify inclusion of a designed outdoor area in project budgets. With case studies from the US, UK, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe, it is an international, inspirational and valuable tool for those interested in landscapes that provide real benefits to their users.
Therapeutic Landscape Design
Through an approach strongly oriented to socio-health contexts and healthcare facilities, with multidisciplinary contributions on the methodological and technical aspects, or legislative issues, the book provides tools and design strategies to plan and realize therapeutic places and healing gardens for care, rehabilitation, interaction, and social inclusion. It addresses all the technical and medical professionals - like Architects, Urban Planners, Agronomist, Sociologists, Epidemiologists, Public Health experts, Policy Makers, etc. - wishing to explore the link between built environment, well-being, and health, referring in particular to the direct relationship between places and therapy.
Landscape and Utopia
This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of large populations; radically altered relations between capital and labor; rapid technological developments; large investments in transportation and energy infrastructure; and repetitive economic disruptions motivated many individuals to wholly reimagine society – including the connections between social relations and the built environment. Landscape and Utopia examines the role of landscapes in the political imaginations of the Garden City, t...
The Well-Gardened Mind
One of Garden & Gun’s Favorite Books of 2020 A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives. The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. But when we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life in nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. Gardening is one of the quintessential nurturing activities and yet we understand so little about it. The Well-Gardened Mind provides a new perspective on the po...
Keeping Faith with the Constitution
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed and applied as it was when the Framers wrote it. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall's vision. They describe their approach as "constitutional fidelity"...
Thinking about Landscape Architecture
What is landscape architecture? Is it gardening, or science, or art? In this book, Bruce Sharky provides a complete overview of the discipline to provide those that are new to the subject with the foundations for future study and practice. The many varieties of landscape practice are discussed with an emphasis on the significant contributions that landscape architects have made across the world in daily practice. Written by a leading scholar and practitioner, this book outlines the subject and explores how, from a basis in garden design, it 'leapt over the garden wall' to encapsulate areas such as urban and park design, community and regional planning, habitat restoration, green infrastructu...
In gradina mintii
Esențială și pragmatică, În grădina minții este o carte pentru cei ce îndrăgesc grădinăritul și lectura perfectă pentru cei care își doresc o viață psihică mai sănătoasă.
A Research Agenda for Human Rights and the Environment
This important book creatively explores and uncovers new ways of understanding the intersections between human rights and the environment, as well as introducing readers to the ways in which we can use new methodologies, case studies and approaches in human rights to address environmental issues. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Projetar para todos
Projetar para todos Acessibilidades nos espaços urbanos Ergonomia dos edifícios Equipamentos inclusivos Uma contribuição para a melhoria da mobilidade das cidades portuguesas e do seu património urbanístico. Um livro que vai de encontro a uma vontade que tem ganho relevância em tornar as cidades mais acessíveis e mais humanas e que contribui com uma visão mais abrangente e mesmo histórica sobre a importância que a Acessibilidade e Desenho Universal tem vindo a ter na sociedade em que vivemos. O livro tem um conteúdo técnico e rigoroso, sempre privilegiando o desenho como melhor forma de comunicação. São apresentados diversos exemplos internacionais de boas experiências na implantação do desenho inclusivo em espaços urbanos. Figuram casos concretos em cidades espanholas como Madrid, Vigo, Astorga, Ávila, Salamanca, e outras cidades como Paris, Buenos Aires, Pittsburgh, Amesterdão, Singapura. Público alvo: útil a arquitetos e a todos aqueles que de uma maneira ou outra intervêm nas transformações da cidade e dos edifícios.
Viver ao Ritmo da Natureza
Uma psiquiatra e grande amante da jardinagem apresenta um trabalho inspirador sobre os efeitos curativos da jardinagem e a sua capacidade para diminuir o stress e promover o bem-estar. «Às vezes, quando estou totalmente absorta numa tarefa de jardinagem, emerge em mima sensação de que sou uma parte disto, de que isto é uma parte de mim.» Pode a jardinagem aliviar o stress? Pode ajudar-nos a cuidar da nossa saúde mental? Pode o contacto regular com a natureza mudar-nos a vida para melhor? A resposta é simples: sim, sim e sim. A psiquiatra e psicoterapeuta Sue Stuart-Smith traz-nos um livro onde — com base na neurociência e psicanálise, e através de uma narrativa apaixonante — r...
