Healing the Soul
Healing the Land
Linking Research & Design of Living Environments.
Mission
- Contributing to the fundamental scientific basis of Landscape Architecture and other highly relevant fields.
- Linking the science to arts and humanistic scholarship in the field of Landscape Architecture and other highly relevant fields.
- Linking the science explicitly to Landscape Architecture practice through guidelines, standards, advice, evaluation studies, etc.
Key Research Questions
- How, and to what extent, do a wide variety of urban environments, especially natural landscapes, influence human health and wellbeing ?
- How can virtual reality and other cutting-edge techniques be used as a tool to study impacts of urban environments on human health and wellbeing?
- How can we challenge and develop the established theories, concepts, and notions?
- How can scientific evidence found in the lab be used to direct or support urban and landscape planning and design practice?
Latest News
Feb, 2025
Greenness, deprivation, and fatal police shootings: a five-year nationwide study in the United States been published in Environment and Behavior.
Sep, 2024
Thinking beyond general greenness: The nuanced associations between a variety of greenspaces and cardiovascular diseases across urbanicity been published in Landscape and Urban Planning.
Jul, 2024
Greener view, safer drive: Using repeated field experiments and deep transfer learning technique to investigate impacts of urban road landscapes on driving performance been published in Landscape and Urban Planning.
Jun, 2024
A dose of nature to reduce sexual crimes in public outdoor spaces: Proposing the Landscape-Sexual Crime Model been published in Landscape and Urban Planning.
May, 2024
Not just more, but more diverse: Green landscapes along urban roads may significantly reduce drivers’ psychophysiological fatigue been published in Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour.
Feb, 2024
From Electronic Waste to Ecological Restoration: The Study on the Unequal Treatment Model and Landscape Intervention Method of Electronic Waste From a Global Perspective been published in Landscape Architecture Frontiers.
Jan, 2024
Racial disparities in environmental exposures and SARS-CoV-2 infection rates: A detailed population-weighted analysis been published in Sustainable Cities and Society.
Jan, 2024
Transformative Power of Urban Green Spaces: Global Insights and Chinese Perspectives has been published in Chinese Landscape Architecture.
Jan, 2024
Contact with Nature—A Promising Effective Strategy for Alleviating and Recovering from Substance Addiction: Theoretical Mechanisms and Key Issues has been published in Chinese Landscape Architecture.
Dec, 2023
Green spaces in highly urbanized tracts tied to lower prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases: A nationwide study across levels of urbanicity has been published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
Dec, 2023
Impacts of sights and sounds on anxiety relief in the high-density city has been published in Landscape and Urban Planning.
April, 2023
Differentiating mental health promotion effects of various bluespaces: An electroencephalography study has been published in Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Jan, 2023
Healthy Landscape and Healthy Residential Landscape: Theoretical Framework and Digital Evaluation System has been published in Chinese Landscape Architecture.
Dec, 2022
From oppressiveness to stress: A development of Stress Reduction Theory in the context of contemporary high-density city has been published in Journal of Environmental Psychology.