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'Blue' space: Access to water features can boost city dwellers' mental health

  • Written by Jenny Roe, Professor of Design and Health and Director of the Center of Design and Health at the Architecture School, University of Virginia
Access to the shoreline is great, but what about places not on the coast?Béju (Happy City, Street Plan, University of Virginia), CC BY-ND

Officials are increasingly recognizing that integrating nature into cities is an effective public health strategy to improve mental health. Doctors around the world now administer “green prescriptions...

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