The Restorative Health Benefits of a Tactical Urban Intervention: An Urban Waterfront Study

Roe, Jenny; Barnes, Laura E.; Napoli, Nicholas J.; Thibodeaux, Jarrett

doi:10.3389/fbuil.2019.00071

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“…There are Polish and international studies related to well-being in connection with waterfronts. These are investigations conducted on different scales with various types of methodology, for instance "The Restorative Health Benefits of a Tactical Urban Intervention: An Urban Waterfront Study" [39]. The described research is based on a small but ever growing number of analyses (conducted mainly in Europe), which show health benefits arising from the contact with waterfronts, rivers and canalsdescribed in the subject literature as "blue health".…”

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confidence: 99%

Pathologies of the Riverside Built Environment Versus Success Indicators of Functional Performance

Latusek

2022

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment

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The paper focuses on the downtown built environment (downtown waterfronts) and also on individual architectural objects which have an important function in such a space. The quality of the built environment affects its surroundings not only in a physical but also in a social way. To find the most appropriate ways of preventing the occurrence of the built environment pathologies in downtown areas, the study used the diagnostic technique of functional performance understood, among other things, as the ability to satisfy the stakeholders' needs and the impact of stakeholders' actions on their living environment. During the research, a comparative platform was found for the functional performance, the imperative of sustainable development and the ecosystem services of rivers and reservoirs. The investigations resulted in the creation of success indicators illustrated by examples of six voivodeship capital cities in Poland which have the strongest connection with the downtown built environment in waterfront areas, namely: Gdańsk, Szczecin, Warszawa (Warsaw), Kraków (Cracow), Wrocław and Poznań.

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Section: Significance Of Results and Contribution To The Field Develo...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathologies of the Riverside Built Environment Versus Success Indicators of Functional Performance

Latusek

2022

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment

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“…The group has summarized the available, state-of-the-art, sources of relevant knowledge that will influence the design decisions regarding the urban intervention, and that relate to the research questions: . They are recommended as a practice for making better long-term planning decisions in urban space, and immediately influences a more positive perception of it [6]. This is also true when public space interventions affect only lighting.…”

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Urban-Centric Lighting Task Group: Tactical Lighting as an innovation strategy

Barberá¹,

Teixidó

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The present article describes a perspective on tactical urban lighting and its power as a source for disruption and innovation in the field of urban lighting. It is the result of an applied research that is currently being carried out by a task group formed by technicians, planners, managers and designers from different private companies and public institutions with responsibility and expertise in public lighting and urban planning. The group objective is to explore innovative methods and state of the art technology implementations as a practical application of the evidence-based knowledge in the field of artificial lighting for the sake of health and well-being. The definition of health is extended, as the concept of well-being includes the urban space as an ecosystem. There is also a fundamental source of awareness that comes from social sciences about how the built environment design promotes well-being, or else constitutes a hazard for health. After a definition phase for the methodologies and the technology that would need to be developed, the task group is focused on developing new products and planning a prototype installation on a real playground. A tactical, lightweight intervention in an urban green area in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona is designed to implement, test, and communicate these innovative methods. Once the experiment is validated, a collaboration with public authorities will allow to introduce innovative perspectives in street lighting. Having received support from local’s regional government innovation programmes, through a competitiveness strengthening initiative, the project is partly funded by the European Commission.

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“…Most studies included measuring the participants' physiological responses while following a predefined path; very few studies have included free exploration (n 5 4). The data collection is almost always conducted for one day, with few exceptions (Komori et al, 2017;Lee et al, 2014Lee et al, , 2020Roe et al, 2019;Song et al, 2015a;South et al, 2015). A group of researchers also repeated their experiment in different seasons (Song et al, 2013(Song et al, , 2014(Song et al, , 2015b.…”

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Mapping the urban environment using real-time physiological monitoring

Dritsa

Biloria

2021

ARCH

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PurposeThis paper presents a critical review of studies which map the urban environment using continuous physiological data collection. A conceptual model is consequently presented for mitigating urban stress at the city and the user level.Design/methodology/approachThe study reviews relevant publications, examining the tools used for data collection and the methods used for data analysis and data fusion. The relationship between urban features and physiological responses is also examined.FindingsThe review showed that the continuous monitoring of physiological data in the urban environment can be used for location-aware stress detection and urban emotion mapping. The combination of physiological and contextual data helps researchers understand how the urban environment affects the human body. The review indicated a relationship between some urban features (green, land use, traffic, isovist parameters) and physiological responses, though more research is needed to solidify the existence of the identified links. The review also identified many theoretical, methodological and practical issues which hinder further research in this area.Originality/valueWhile there is large potential in this field, there has been no review of studies which map continuously physiological data in the urban environment. This study covers this gap and introduces a novel conceptual model for mitigating urban stress.

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The Restorative Health Benefits of a Tactical Urban Intervention: An Urban Waterfront Study

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Pathologies of the Riverside Built Environment Versus Success Indicators of Functional Performance

Pathologies of the Riverside Built Environment Versus Success Indicators of Functional Performance

Urban-Centric Lighting Task Group: Tactical Lighting as an innovation strategy

Mapping the urban environment using real-time physiological monitoring

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