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
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.