How Natural and Built Environments Impact （自然和建筑环境的影响如何）.pdfVIP

Design Environmental Analysis How Natural and Built Environments Impact Human Health Research by Dr. Nancy Wells, an environmental psychologist in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University demonstrates how natural and built environments affect people’s mental and physical well-being throughout their lives. Her research highlights the profound effects that built environments have on public-health. Planning decisions influence neighborhood configuration, housing design, parks, location of stores and schools, as well as factors such as traffic density and air and water quality. These characteristics, in turn, affect physical and psychological health for people of all ages. “Making health an explicit component of planning is critical,” Wells explains. Planning Should Consider Public Health Wells along with two colleagues, Gary W. Evans and Yizhao Yang, recently undertook a comprehensive review of research on how planning decisions “Making health an explicit component of impact public health (Wells, Evans and Yang, planning is critical” 2010). They found that decisions about factors such as density of communities, presence and size of parks, land-use mix, height and size of In fact, older, urban residents who have places to residential structures, food store location, and how walk and access to parks and tree-lined streets live roads are laid out affect people’s physical health and longer. Trees and natural areas may bolster a sense