Few people would deny an intuitive sense of increased wellbeing when spending time in beautiful locations. Here, we ask: can we quantify the relationship between environmental aesthetics and human health? We draw on data from Scenic-Or-Not, a website that crowdsources ratings of "scenicness" for geotagged photographs across Great Britain, in combination with data on citizen-reported health from...

The documented evaluation of a road project contributes to the general knowledge of road planning and road design. Post-occupancy evaluation is a powerful way of managing evaluation and should be incorporated in the design process. Project leaders in the Swedish Road Administration are not used to discuss questions about aesthetics, still they are making essential decisions that highly influenc...

Street art opens a new, broad research field in the context of urban communication and sound aesthetics in public space. The primary focus of this article is the relevance and effects of using sound technologies and audio devices to shape urban landscape and soundscape. This paper examines the process of developing an alternative type of street art that uses sound as its medium. It represents m...

Green infrastructure ameliorates the urban heat island effect, contributes positively to liveability and enables sustainability in higher density urban environments. Greenskins (living architectures) are a more specific form of green infrastructure, including green walls and green roofs, for dense urban areas. These offer a new approach for sustainable urban biophilia and some forms can be buil...

A model was developed to predict the value con­ tribution of forest condition on small urban-wildland inter­ face properties. Sample data were collected on property transactions in the Lake Tahoe Basin of California between 1990 and 1994. A variant of the stand density index (SDI) and a tree health measure were added to a list of traditional property characteristics (i.e., location, house size,...

Urban park is an important component of urban public green space which provides leisure, recreation, activity place, etc. Urban park service quality was evaluated by quantitative method in this paper to provide scientific evidence for renewal and development of urban park. 5 urban parks in Xinxiang, Henan province, China were selected as evaluation samples, and 13 indexes were evaluated, includ...

BACKGROUND Urban renewal programs aim to target both the physical and social environments to improve the social capital, social connectedness, sense of community and economic conditions of residents of the neighbourhoods. We evaluated the impact of an urban renewal program on the health and well-being of residents of a socially disadvantaged community in south-western Sydney, Australia. METHO...

This article seeks to broaden theoretical and methodological approaches urban aesthetics by introducing the sociology of (e)valuation Q-sort methodology. In explaining which elements urba...