Evaluating restoration in urban green spaces: Does setting type make a difference?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used inventory and cartographic data to estimate abundance, coverage and average size of green spaces in built-up areas (GSB) in Italy through the integration of inventory and Cartographic data.

TL;DR: A general framework that can quantify dynamic visual perception based on urban morphology and improves accuracy in the descriptions of LUL linear spatial characteristics is provided and aims to provide a general methodology and scientific guidance for urban planning and landscape management.

TL;DR: In this paper , a typical small community park in the winter city of China was selected to study how landscape elements affect restorative benefits through the setting of seasonal virtual scenes, and the results showed that plants with rich layers and large coverage areas have a significant positive impact on human perception of recovery, vitality facilities have no significant impact on perceived recovery, and number of active people has a significant negative impact on the perceived recovery.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors assess the use and accessibility of five urban parks in the Jeddah megacity of Saudi Arabia from diversified perspectives using a social preference approach (SPA).

TL;DR: A study of the natural environment, people, and the relationship between them is presented in this paper, where the authors offer a research-based analysis of the vital psychological role that nature plays.

TL;DR: Attention Restoration Theory provides an analysis of the kinds of experiences that lead to recovery from such fatigue and an integrative framework is proposed that places both directed attention and stress in the larger context of human-environment relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the emotional, attentional and physiological aspects of stress reducing influences of nature, and found that both the stressor film and the nature settings elicited high levels of involuntary or automatic attention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared psychophysiological stress recovery and directed attention restoration in natural and urban field settings using repeated measures of ambulatory blood pressure, emotion, and attention collected from 112 randomly assigned young adults.