Tag: Benefits of Nature
Open Voices News Roundup: April 30
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Tune Up Your Immune System in the Garden Sure, a backyard garden is a place of beauty, an attraction for birds, insects, and wildlife, and a personalized…
Study: Nearness to Green Space Positively Impacts Health
Grass, trees, flowers. Simply living near them, be they in parks or gardens can have a small, but very real, positive impact on health. According to The Atlantic, researchers at the University of Exeter analyzed nearly two decades of data on approximately 10,000 U.K. citizens living in urban areas, asking how satisfied they were with…
Open Voices News Roundup: April 22
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Can America’s Greenest City Also Be a Shale Oil Powerhouse? The evidence of Philadelphia’s not-too-distant past as an industrial powerhouse is apparent to anyone who drives by…
Recommended Reading: Coverage of the 2013 APA National Planning Conference
Jonathan Nettler of Planetizen has been following the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference closely. The annual event has brought together experts from across the country, who all came to Chicago to discuss the present and future of how we lay out the world in which we live. Here are just a couple of the…
Open Voices News Roundup: April 15
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. The Completely Puzzling Relationship Between City Population and Parks The larger a city gets, the less infrastructure it needs per capita. At the same time, as populations…
Open Voices News Roundup: April 8
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. National Landscape Architecture Month: Healthy Living Through Design 2013 With the theme of Healthy Living Through Design, National Landscape Architecture Month (NLAM) 2013 will spur a country-wide…
Open Voices News Roundup: April 1
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. A Chicago Park Learns from New York’s High Line There’s no denying that the High Line, New York City’s famed elevated park, has captured the imagination of…
‘Green Infrastructure’ Can Help Regions Better Prepare for Natural Disasters
In addition to the better-known effects of ever increasing urbanization, in some areas of the country the proliferation of concrete and skyscrapers has also made the regions more susceptible to natural disasters. When coastal wetlands are filled in and replaced it leaves fewer areas capable of absorbing the massive amounts of rain that come with…
Open Voices News Roundup: March 18
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. A City Center Becomes a Garden Aberdeen, a city in Scotland, is not only transforming its urban center into a garden and cultural center, but also making…
Open Voices News Roundup: March 11
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Tree and Human Health May Be Linked Our deep connection with nature has roots seemingly as old as humanity itself. Ancient Celts viewed trees as sacred symbols…
