Public Open Spaces, Landscape Design and Mental Well-being: A Literature Review

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Mental well-being has become one of the major forces that guide the design of urban landscapes. Providing respite from everyday stressors to inhabitants of dense urban environments is a challenge for landscape architects designing urban landscapes. Identifying methodological approaches employed to interpret the human experience in the landscape, as well as the theories that explain restoration of human mental capacities, can better inform landscape architects on how to design high performance restorative landscapes in urban settings to support and promote human mental well-being.Keywords | Environmental design, landscape architecture, research methodology, urban settings, well-being