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Lin, Chenxi

Stress is a frequently-occur problem among urban city office workers. Sitting for a long time in places with limited natural elements and views makes it hard for them to mitigate stress. Worse, outdoor spaces near office buildings in downtown Vancouver often consist of limited and pruned vegetation, and lack of places to sit down, making workers can not fully relax outside, either. Based on the stress-alleviating function of biodiversity and a literature review of studies about therapeutic features of natural landscape, especially With People in Mind by Rachel Kaplan, Stephen Kaplan, and Robert L. Ryan (2005), this project explores methods for turning spaces near office buildings into rest stops. Spaces are connected to form a relaxing green network.

Vancouver (B.C.)

Text

University of British Columbia. LARC 598

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0432234

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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