Olmsted, Frederick Law

Beveridge, Charles E.

doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t063501

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“…The concept of "natural environmental health promotion" can be traced back to Ian McHarg's The Place of Nature in The City of Man [26], which suggests the need to critically examine the place of nature in the city, and fully utilize it to provide well-being benefits for city dwellers and improve the qualities of the urban environment. It echoes previous thinkers concerned with urban issues, such as Ebenezer Howard's garden cities of tomorrow [29], Frederick Law Olmsted's city park movement [30], and Patrick Geddes's comprehensive vision of nature in urban planning [31].…”

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“…Design with nature is a classic topic in the field of urban design [25]. Since the 1960s, massive urban renewal movements have attracted much attention and reflection, and urbanists, landscape architects, and others have begun to explore the construction of urban habitats centered on human experience and perception [26][27][28][29][30][31]. The concept of "natural environmental health promotion" can be traced back to Ian McHarg's The Place of Nature in The City of Man [26], which suggests the need to critically examine the place of nature in the city, and fully utilize it to provide well-being benefits for city dwellers and improve the qualities of the urban environment.…”

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The Improving of Sky Gardens’ Environmental Quality from a Health Promotion Perspective

Li,

2024

Land

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The quality of landscape space directly influences public health behaviors, making public assessments of the qualities of the sky garden landscape crucial for optimizing it. This article focuses on three types of typical high-rise building sky garden (plaza-park, rest-stay, and move-pass type) and establishes an evaluation framework for their health promotion characteristics (24 indicators in 7 dimensions) based on existing restorative environment research. Then, questionnaires (354 valid responses) and quantitative calculations were employed to assess the public’s perception of demand in health behaviors and the spatial supply of different sky garden types. Ultimately, the data were processed to propose targeted interventions and recommendations to enhance health benefits using the comprehensive importance-performance analysis method. The results show the following: (1) The public seems to have widely accepted sky gardens in the context of high-density urban environments (near 6.92, below the mean of 7.09). They place greater emphasis on spatial indicators that cater to relaxation activities and show heightened sensitivity toward public facilities (7.32–8.00) that contribute to physical and mental health-related activities. (2) The health promotion performance of different types of sky garden shows significant variation, with the rest-stay sky gardens at the embodied scale demonstrating the greatest competitive advantage. (3) The development of sky gardens has significant potential, and different types of sky garden need to specifically lever-age their characteristics as complementary public spaces.

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The Improving of Sky Gardens’ Environmental Quality from a Health Promotion Perspective

Li,

2024

Land

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“…The parkways were separated according to the type of transport, and the directions of travel were separated by rows of trees. The term and the concept of parkway have been preserved even today, and refer to a road with trees on the edges and through which commercial traffic is excluded (Beveridge and Rocheleau, 1995).…”

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A Historical View of Addressing the Connectivity of the Green Infrastructure by the Urban Plans

Popescu¹,

Petrişor²

2021

IICSEE Official Conference Proceedings

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Urban ecology sees today the city nature as a green infrastructure providing ecosystem services to the urban dwellers, contributing to their welfare and a sustainable urban development. However, the concepts included in this view are not as new as it seems. Ecosystem services are just a reiteration of the ecological economy view of nature as a natural capital providing goods and services to the human society. Similarly, although increasing attention has been paid lately to the green infrastructure and its role in addressing challenges faced by the modern society, including the mitigation of climate change effects, it is less known that the concept, that started being used relatively recently, in the '90s, has emerged at the end of the 21st century in the works of the prominent landscape architects and urban planners Frederick Law Olmsted and Ebenezer Howard. They argued in their projects, revolutionary for that time, for the need to combat urban sprawl through a strategic planning of vegetated systems and corridors, known today as "green infrastructure". The designed components of the systems of urban parks and green spaces are similar to those of the "green infrastructure", consisting of nodes (core areas/hubs) and connections. The relationship between nature and human well-being (known today as "ecosystem services") and sustainability was also anticipated by their woks. Most importantly, these early researches demonstrated that the green infrastructure is not optional, but must be strategically devised, holistically planned, and properly managed. This work aims to revisit the old works from a modern perspective.

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“…. without harmful effect, first on his mental and nervous system and ultimately on his entire constitutional organization" [5]. Recent meta-analysis seems to confirm these words with scientific evidence, demonstrating the 38% higher prevalence rate of mental health disorders in urban when compared to rural areas, with mood disorders, such as major depressive disorder (MDD) causing a major burden [6,7].…”

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Can Exposure to Certain Urban Green Spaces Trigger Frontal Alpha Asymmetry in the Brain?—Preliminary Findings from a Passive Task EEG Study

Olszewska-Guizzo¹,

Sia

Fogel

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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A growing body of evidence from observational and experimental studies shows the associations between exposure to urban green spaces (UGSs) and mental health outcomes. Little is known about which specific features of UGS that might be the most beneficial. In addition, there is potential in utilizing objective physiological markers of mental health, such as assessing brain activity, but the subject requires further investigation. This paper presents the preliminary findings from an on-going within-subject experiment where adult participants (n = 22; 13 females) were passively exposed to six landscape scenes within two UGSs (a park and a neighborhood green space) and three scenes of a busy urban downtown (control site). The landscape scenes were pre-selected based on their contemplative landscape score (CLS) to represent different levels of aggregation of contemplative features within each view. Participants went to each of the sites in a random order to passively view the scenes, while their electroencephalography (EEG) signal was being recorded concurrently. Frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) values, commonly associated with the approach-related motivation and positive emotions, were extracted. The preliminary results show trends for the main effect of site on FAA, suggestive of stronger FAA in park compared to the control site, akin to more positive mood. There was also a trend for the interaction between the site and scene, which suggests that even within the individual sites, there is variability depending on the specific scene. Adjusting for environmental covariate strengthened these effects, these interim findings are promising in supporting the study hypothesis and suggest that exposure to urban green spaces may be linked to mental health outcomes.

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Olmsted, Frederick Law

Cited by 8 publications

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The Improving of Sky Gardens’ Environmental Quality from a Health Promotion Perspective

The Improving of Sky Gardens’ Environmental Quality from a Health Promotion Perspective

A Historical View of Addressing the Connectivity of the Green Infrastructure by the Urban Plans

Can Exposure to Certain Urban Green Spaces Trigger Frontal Alpha Asymmetry in the Brain?—Preliminary Findings from a Passive Task EEG Study

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