A design-support framework to assess urban green spaces for human wellbeing

J Jia, S Zlatanova, H Liu, M Aleksandrov… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid and high-density urban development has led to limited Urban Green Space (UGS),
which is crucial for human wellbeing and sustainable urban development. To avoid …

A greener urban environment: Designing green infrastructure interventions to promote citizens' subjective wellbeing

P Navarrete-Hernandez, K Laffan - Landscape and urban planning, 2019 - Elsevier
Research using subjective wellbeing (SWB) measures finds that the greener an individual's
local environment is, the higher the levels of happiness and the lower levels of stress they …

Linking public urban green spaces and human well-being: A systematic review

R Reyes-Riveros, A Altamirano, F De La Barrera… - Urban forestry & urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Public urban green spaces provide people with many benefits. Understanding the
relationship between public urban green spaces' characteristics and human well-being …

Urban green space for health and well-being: developing an 'affordances' framework for planning and design

M Lennon, O Douglas, M Scott - Journal of urban design, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
A vast literature exploring environmental influences on human health and well-being has
provided renewed interest in connecting planning for the built environment with health …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting context-sensitive urban green space quality to support urban green infrastructure planning

A Kajosaari, K Hasanzadeh, N Fagerholm… - Landscape and Urban …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban green spaces (UGSs) support human health and well-being in diverse ways. In
addition to their availability and accessibility, also the quality of UGSs is relevant for …

Heterogeneity in the subjective well-being impact of access to urban green space

F Sharifi, A Nygaard, WM Stone - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a growing body of literature on the impact of urban green space (UGS) on residents'
subjective well-being (SWB). However, few studies analyze how SWB impacts of UGS may …

Green space benefits for health and well-being: A life-course approach for urban planning, design and management

O Douglas, M Lennon, M Scott - Cities, 2017 - Elsevier
In recognition that the coming century will see a substantial majority of the world's population
living in urban areas, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations have developed …

Public perceptions of urban green spaces: convergences and divergences

SM Atiqul Haq, MN Islam, A Siddhanta… - … in Sustainable Cities, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the context of rapid climate change, it is important to understand public perceptions of
urban green spaces (UGSs), because green spaces have enormous potential as …

Planning of urban green spaces: An ecological perspective on human benefits

T Semeraro, A Scarano, R Buccolieri, A Santino… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the context of urban land-use growth and the consequent impacts on the environment,
green spaces provide ecosystem services for human health. The ecosystem services …

Assessment of urban green space structures and their quality from a multidimensional perspective

B Daniels, BS Zaunbrecher, B Paas… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Facing the growing amount of people living in cities and, at the same time, the need for a
compact and sustainable urban development to mitigate urban sprawl, it becomes …