Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing
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The Creative Bureaucracy & Its Radical Common Sense
Kanye proves mental health is messier than just talking about your feelings
“Mental illness is not an excuse for bad behaviour. But we need to acknowledge that it is very often the cause of it.” Writing in the Daily Telegraph , Bryony Gordon says: “A few years ago, when I had first plucked up the courage to…
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Coronavirus: Will lockdown easing see more of us using rivers?
Claire Marshall, reporting for the BBC: “Figures suggest that more people than ever are heading to Britain’s rivers with the easing of lockdown – renewing calls for better public rights of access. It comes as MPs are to consider proposals…
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How home design can impact our mental health
Europe’s first Urban Psychology Summit heralded great success
“We know more about what makes a good habitat for mountain gorillas than we do about living in our own cities” Danish architect Jan Gehl Chris Murray reports for the Urban Psyche website: “CITY, PSYCHOLOGY, PLACE: AN URBAN PSYCHOLOGY SUMMIT The global…
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Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective
“We provide consensus on the benefits of nature experience for mental health, and a model for integrating them into urban design.” This research article has been published in Science Advances. The abstract says: “A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the…
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Time, not material goods, ‘raises happiness’
” … my take home message is, ‘think about it, is there something you hate doing that fills you with dread and could you pay somebody else to do that for you?’ If so, then science says that’s a pretty…
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The Rabbit Effect
Can gardens, libraries and museums improve wellbeing through social prescribing?
This blog-post from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine begins: “Oxford University’s world-class gardens, libraries and museums could benefit the health and wellbeing of Oxfordshire residents through ‘social prescribing’, according to a report published today by an interdisciplinary team at Oxford University….
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