Human-nature Needs and Design of Green Urban Environments

Contact with nature has many conceivable advantages for individuals. These benefits have started to be investigated by environmental psychologists, and it has been mostly acknowledged that such contact is important and essential to human health and well-being. Because of the significance of this aid, study and research in this area to urban planners and health experts has been recognized as an ongoing concern and is growing. The idea of connection with nature, portraying advantages people acquire from regular green spaces, is a progressively principal opinion directing green space evaluation and supervision. This study reviews the literature on the importance of enclosure of nature in human life and the critical role of public green spaces in urban and residential areas. Human–nature relationship ideas have historical and philosophical roots and many empirical studies have framed this notion. It can be said that the human nature needs, connected to the physical elements of the environmental setting, are categorized in two terms: contact with nature, visual and aesthetic preference. These concepts will be explained and discuss in this paper.

کلیدواژه ها:

Human nature relation ، nature ، green environment ، contact with nature