Towards restorative city: rethinking public space design from ecological and biological perspectives to promote city and community wellbeing
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2022
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The urban development of the city emerges from the constantly changing local circumstances. As human beings, we have an inherent tendency to cohort with nature. During the pandemic, people occupied public green spaces to be a haven. With the dramatic increase in the urban population of cities, cities are becoming more multicultural and heterogeneous environments. As the physical environment and the social behaviours generate each other. The paper will address the importance of designing public spaces as spaces that support human well-being. Social interactions and community cohesion are organically and iteratively developing inside safe public spaces. Thus, the paper will concentrate on developing concepts for prospering public spaces to inspire people's wellbeing and promote community cohesion through its design. Public spaces design impact people's sense of belonging and sense of place in the city, and those senses are related to the people's social and physical experience with the city’s structures, spaces, pedestrianization, including city blocks, street dimensions, walking aisles, building heights, and city ecological, biological components. Accordingly, this paper highlighting existing and new concepts to rethink the design of cities’ public spaces starting from understanding people's experience in those spaces from ecological and biological perspectives aiming to enhancing people's physiological, psychological health, and city’s life quality using ecological components and principles in public spaces design, urban mobility, considering space air quality, noise pollution, and place-based relationships (Biophilic dimensions). The paper highlights the lack of literature about Biophilic architecture and Restorative Environment concepts and applications in designing cities' public spaces specifically. Considering both concepts as potential solutions that can assist in improving city liveability and capabilities in enhancing and maintaining its social prosperity and its environmental resilience
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Back to Human Scale : Rethinking Human Spaces for Tomorrow
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ARQUITETURA, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN ARQUITETÓNICO, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, ESPAÇO PÚBLICO, PUBLIC SPACE, BEM-ESTAR, MEIO AMBIENTE, ENVIRONMENT