Essential reading in troubling times.” -Dr Cecily Maller, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia “In this new book, Zoë Myers takes on the challenging task of integrating insights from diverse disciplines to explore evidence behind the myriad links between urban nature, mental health and urban design. Considering the growing burden of mental ill-health globally, Wildness and Wellbeing convincingly makes the case for everyday urban nature beyond park provision, to rethink cities as places where diverse species are invited to flourish in every possible nook and cranny, no matter how awkward.

In addition to putting forth reams of compelling evidence, Myers offers sound and practical design principles and strategies to give people immediate, incidental, and incremental access to urban nature, the key to wellbeing in the city.” -Claire Latané, Ecological Designer and Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona “This important and timely book rigorously draws together evidence from a wide range of disciplines to reveal the benefits of urban nature for human mental health and wellbeing. Wildness and Wellbeing Nature, Neuroscience, and Urban Design Zoë Myers Wildness and Wellbeing “Zoë Myers has tackled a subject that is long overdue-the need to re-wild urban places to better support our mental health and wellbeing. 4.3.5 Create Space for Temporality and Flux. 4.3.2 Create or Cultivate Small Places en Route. 4.3.1 Turn Attention Back to Our Streets. 4.2 Urban Nature: Immediate, Incidental, and Incremental. 3.2 Accumulated Exposures, Stress, and Mental Health.

2.5 Urban Ecologies and the Problem of ‘Authenticity’.

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