Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health; 2024:3
ISSN 2398-4082 (online)
​https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15115704a
March 2025

Edition 9: Urban Landscapes Edition

Editorial

Urban Landscapes for Mental Health: Intersections and Connections between Wisdom and Innovation in Design 
Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo (1,2*) ,Erin Sharp-Newton (1,3*), Nelida Quintero (1,4), Dan Gan (1,5), Greg Rybarczyk (1,6,7)

(1) Centre of Urban Design and Mental Health, Global
(2) Fundacja Neurolandscape, Warsaw, Poland
(3) Kean University, Graduate School of Public Architecture, NJ, USA
(4) Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, USA
(5) Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
(6) Department of Geospatial Science, University of Michigan-Flint, USA
(7) Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society, University of Michigan, USA
* Corresponding Authors: [email protected], [email protected]

Dialogue

​Cultivating Contemplation: Public and Private Landscapes for Mental Health, Well-being and Joy 
​Interview with Julie Moir Messervy
Erin Sharp-Newton (1,2) ​
(1) Centre of Urban Design and Mental Health, Global
(2) Kean University, Graduate School of Public Architecture, NJ, USA

Research

Landscape, Well-Being and Connection: A Qualitative Study of Community College Students’ Perceptions of Campus Attributes
Lori Pullman​ (1) ​
(1) California State University, Fullerton
Compassionate Places: Developing and Implementing a Method for Interdisciplinary, Humanistic Spatial Design and Place Quality Standards
​Natasha Reid​ (1)
(1) Matter Space Soul, London, United Kingdom
Beautiful, sustainable and inclusive cities
​How visual attention on urban design can inform modern innovations tailored to promote mental well-being in urban settings
Astrid Nédée (1), Ester Higuera (1), Helena López-Moreno (2)
(1) Dto. de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Avda. Juan de Herrera 4, 28040
(2) Dto. de Construcción y Tecnología Arquitectónicas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Avda. Juan de Herrera 4, 28040, Madrid, Spain

Review Articles

Cityscapes, Climate, and Mental Health: Designing Cities for Thermal Wellbeing
Peter J. Crank (1), Paul Coseo (2)
(1 ) Department of Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
(2) The Design School, Arizona State University 

Case Studies (Cities and Projects)

Post-Pandemic Urban Outdoor Dining Spaces Case Study: City Market, Indianapolis, Indiana
​Oluwaseyi Aletan (1), Vincent Abimbola Uwala (2)
(1) Department of Landscape Architecture, R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA
(2) Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Environmental Studies, the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, Nigeria

About Volume 9

Publisher
The Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health is a biannual open-access, peer-reviewed and multi-disciplinary journal, published online by the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, an international think tank that seeks to answer the question: how can we build better mental health into our cities?

Editor in Chief
Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo

Co-Editors
Greg Rybarczyk and Nélida Quintero

Section Editors
​Daniel Gan and  Erin Sharp-Newton

Cover
Firefly 

Submit to Volume 10

Submission deadline will be announced soon.

We seek papers at the nexus of urban design and mental health.