| Sustainable Urban Site
Design: Human Well-Being |
| Slide 2 |
Natural Systems & Urbanization Impacts? |
Nearby Nature is necessary Òhuman habitatÓ |
Nearby Nature is necessary Òhuman habitatÓ |
| Concepts & Principles |
| Framework of Studies |
| large nearby nature |
| small nearby nature |
| Passive Experience |
| Active Experience of Nature |
| Scientific Studies |
| Reports of Studies |
| Slide 14 |
| Desk Jobs = directed attention |
| Workplace Nature Views |
| Plants in Workplace |
| view of nature for all
workers business $$ benefits |
| Green Roof - Chicago City Hall |
| Wellness & Healing |
| Healing Gardens - institutional design - |
| U of WA Hospitals Surgery Pavilion |
| Roadside Landscape &
Traffic Stress Response |
| Americans travel 2.3 billion miles per day on urban freeways & highways |
| Discussion: your study in this framework? |
| "http://www.treeclimbing.jp/" |
| "physically disabled & tree climbing" |
| Slide 28 |
| Slide 29 |
| Social Benefits |
| Chicago Public Housing with & without green spaces Wm. Sullivan & F. Kuo University of Illinois |
| Landscape & Human
Health Laboratory www.lhhl.uiuc.edu |
| walkable city places |
| Physical Inactivity & Obesity |
| Obesity Trends* Among U.S.
Adults BRFSS, 1985 |
| Obesity Trends* Among U.S.
Adults BRFSS, 2004 |
| Slide 37 |
| make room for pedestrians |
| Nature, Walkable
Neighborhoods & Human Health |
| Home Zones (Dutch
ÒwoonerfÓ) streets and nature in everyday life trial designs in England |
| Home Zones traffic calming green streets festival planning play spaces multi-modal transport |
| Reports of Studies |
| "Research Question:" |
| Image Categories (sorted by ratings) |
| Slide 45 |
| Slide 46 |
| most measures higher with trees |
| Slide 48 |
| Namba Parks, Osaka view from nearby hotel |
| small plazas, retail entry |
| passive nature experiences |
| interior retail space ground level |
| Namba Parks: retail success
& nature experience benefits |
| Conclusions |