Comments on: Reducing Urban Stressors through Design: Nature in Amsterdam

By: Jia

Jia — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:22:39 +0000

Hi, Ellen
I agree what most of your opinion. Human needs nature in their lives, both urban and rural area. This is a important part of urban planners’ job, or like your said landscape design.
But there are also a lot people don’t access nature surroundings, maybe because they are lazy, busy or they even don’t think it is important.
So is urban nature could change people’s behavior?
Or this is a education problem because there are so many children don’t go outdoors?
Maybe when urban living lack of nature, the same time, they are missing a link between them?
How do you think?

By: Ellen Schwaller

Ellen Schwaller — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:24:26 +0000

I, too, have experienced both extremes; I think what I fear are the parking lot-dominated communities in suburban sprawl. Here, neither public or private space really provide sufficient natural environments for me.

By: Jordan Rockerbie

Jordan Rockerbie — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 04:41:42 +0000

I’m currently living on that later extreme: living inside a Canadian national park. At this time last year I was on the other end, living in Singapore. Both have been good for me in different ways, and when done right any natural presence is a good thing. I shudder to think of grey concrete jungles.