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Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of
daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of
city-dwellers. With mental healthcare services under increasing
pressure, could a better approach to urban design and planning
provide a solution? The restrictions faced by city residents around
the world during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought home just how
much urban design can affect our mental health - and created an
imperative to seize this opportunity. Restorative Cities explores a
new way of designing cities, one which places mental health and
wellness at the forefront. Establishing a blueprint for urban
design for mental health, it examines a range of strategies - from
sensory architecture to place-making for creativity and community -
and brings a genuinely evidence-based approach that will appeal to
designers and planners, health practitioners and researchers alike
- and provide compelling insights for anyone who cares about how
our surroundings affect us. Written by a psychiatrist and public
health specialist, and an environmental psychologist with extensive
experience of architectural practice, this much-needed work will
prompt debate and inspire built environment students and
professionals to think more about the positive potential of their
designs for mental well-being.
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding
of infrastructure, and it's influence on happiness and wellbeing,
by examining the concept from economic, human development,
architectural, urban planning, psychological, and ethical points of
view. Providing insights from both research and practice the volume
discusses how to develop happier cities and improve urban
infrastructure for the wellbeing of the whole population. The book
puts forth the argument that it is only in understanding the true
nature of infrastructure's reach - how it connects, supports, and
enlivens human beings - that we can truly begin to understand
infrastructure's possibilities. It connects infrastructure to that
most elusive of human qualities - happiness - examining the way
infrastructure is fundamentally tied to human values and human
well-being. The book seeks to suggest novel approaches, identify
outmoded undertakings, and define new possibilities in order to
maximize infrastructure's impact for all people - with a focus on
diversity, inclusion and equity. In seeking to define
infrastructure broadly and examine its possibilities systematically
this book brings together theory and evidence from multiple
disciplinary perspectives including, sociology, urban studies,
architecture, economics, and public health in order to advance a
startling claim - that our lives, and the lives of others, can be
substantively improved by greater adhesion to the principles and
practices of infrastructure design for happiness and wellbeing.
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding
of infrastructure, and it's influence on happiness and wellbeing,
by examining the concept from economic, human development,
architectural, urban planning, psychological, and ethical points of
view. Providing insights from both research and practice the volume
discusses how to develop happier cities and improve urban
infrastructure for the wellbeing of the whole population. The book
puts forth the argument that it is only in understanding the true
nature of infrastructure's reach - how it connects, supports, and
enlivens human beings - that we can truly begin to understand
infrastructure's possibilities. It connects infrastructure to that
most elusive of human qualities - happiness - examining the way
infrastructure is fundamentally tied to human values and human
well-being. The book seeks to suggest novel approaches, identify
outmoded undertakings, and define new possibilities in order to
maximize infrastructure's impact for all people - with a focus on
diversity, inclusion and equity. In seeking to define
infrastructure broadly and examine its possibilities systematically
this book brings together theory and evidence from multiple
disciplinary perspectives including, sociology, urban studies,
architecture, economics, and public health in order to advance a
startling claim - that our lives, and the lives of others, can be
substantively improved by greater adhesion to the principles and
practices of infrastructure design for happiness and wellbeing.
Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of
daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of
city-dwellers. With mental healthcare services under increasing
pressure, could a better approach to urban design and planning
provide a solution? The restrictions faced by city residents around
the world during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought home just how
much urban design can affect our mental health - and created an
imperative to seize this opportunity. Restorative Cities explores a
new way of designing cities, one which places mental health and
wellness at the forefront. Establishing a blueprint for urban
design for mental health, it examines a range of strategies - from
sensory architecture to place-making for creativity and community -
and brings a genuinely evidence-based approach that will appeal to
designers and planners, health practitioners and researchers alike
- and provide compelling insights for anyone who cares about how
our surroundings affect us. Written by a psychiatrist and public
health specialist, and an environmental psychologist with extensive
experience of architectural practice, this much-needed work will
prompt debate and inspire built environment students and
professionals to think more about the positive potential of their
designs for mental well-being.
God did not create people to just lounge around in a garden, nap in
the sun, and pop grapes. We were made to be active agents in
creation, God's ambassadors to the world Designed to be used for
students ages twelve to sixteen, this theologically-rich
curriculum-updated by CBE's African partners to be relevant to an
African context-traces the missional meta-narrative woven
throughout Scripture, from creation and the call of Abraham to
Christ's revolutionary kingdom and the Spirit-empowered church.
Students will be equipped with practical ideas on how to live
purposefully as part of the body of Christ, and challenged to go
"all in," developing their gifts and pursuing God's calling on
their life, regardless of gender. Each session contains: A Bible
reading. A narrative overview of the Bible reading, focusing on the
session's theme. Discussion questions to facilitate conversation-no
"yes or no" questions or fluffy fill-in-the-blanks. A hands-on
group activity for tangible learning. Focus on God's missional call
regardless of gender.
God didn't create people to just lounge around in a garden, napping
in the sun and popping grapes. We were made to be active agents in
creation, God's ambassadors to the world This theologically-rich
curriculum traces the missional meta-narrative woven throughout
scripture, from creation and the call of Abraham, to Christ's
revolutionary kingdom and the Spirit-empowered church. Students
will be equipped with practical ideas on how to live purposefully
as part of the body of Christ, and challenged to go "all in,"
developing their gifts and pursuing God's calling on their life.
Each session contains: A short video. A Bible reading. A narrative
overview of the Bible reading, focusing on the session's theme.
Discussion questions to facilitate conversation-no "yes or no"
questions or fluffy fill-in- the-blanks. A hands-on group activity
for tangible learning.
Over the last few decades research has shown how natural
environments can promote opportunities for psychological
restoration - particularly mood, attention fatigue and stress
recovery. However, little is known about how restoration varies
amongst different people and whether urban settings can also offer
restorative opportunities. This study, therefore, provides new
insights into how restoration varies across different settings, and
how the process varies in different sections of the population. It
offers six studies: two exploring short term restoration in adults
and teenagers with good and poor mental health, one exploring
longer term restoration ('instoration') in teenagers with
behavioural difficulties, and three further studies exploring
teenagers' relationships with place and the associated
opportunities for health and wellbeing. Offering a range of
innovative methods for restorative environment research, this study
will be of interest to environmental psychologists, health
geographers, landscape architects and those from other design
disciplines, as well as health professionals.
This book is a fun and focused approach to teaching communication,
language and literacy in an inclusive early years setting. The
author provides a wide range of activities to encourage the
development of children's key skills. The activities will include:
key vocabulary; resources needed; a description of the activity;
development stages towards early learning goals defined for
different learners recognising a breadth of learning abilities; how
to assess - inspired from the 'look, listen and note' approach
suggested in the EYFS; Discussion ideas; and, Differentiation -
ideas for both challenging children and meeting lower ability
children including those with English as a second language. This
book is a must for early years practitioners.
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