Introduction

How Nature - Gardens Affect our well being.

This essay discusses the affects of Gardens (Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic) on human beings. This study researches how nature - gardens affects in various ways, feelings, moods, illness or weaknesses for example; someone who is dealing with stress might not probably want to be in a loud busy environment but instead in a nice calm place and surrounded by nature.

The discussion looks for positive ways that make humans stronger and healthier. Nature affects people in many ways and also makes the world look like a brighter place. There are things that make it look that way (positive place) and this discussion will mention why.

Investigation will also be taken on garden designs and how concepts are designed and if they were designed in a certain way on purpose and the reasons why for example; if the design was made for certain affects it might have on certain people or if it was just designed for the beauty of it - aesthetic.

History will also be produced, why gardens were designed before and if they were designed to help through tough times such as war, recession and etc I would also be investigating to see if these gardens helped people go through their everyday life.

Essay Title

To help come up with my Essay's Title I have made a mind map which had to do with Urban Design. The key words which I have chosen to work with were:

• Outdoor 
• Weather
• Garden
• Nature
• Elders
• Children
• Ergonomics
• Health Concerns
• Safety
• Disabled
• Easy Access

The title that I have chosen to work with was How Urban Design Affects our Well-being. I was to investigation how Urban Design affects our well-being and if it does, what affects us in a positive or a negative way? Are today’s designers having an aesthetic and functional approach for our well-being and also the design itself?

Motivation:

Nowadays people like to experience outdoor public spaces such as parks, gardens, arenas, lakes and etc. Are these spaces ergonomically and friendly designed to the ones able and also the disabled? Are these spaces being designed aesthetically, as well as functional or, addressing the weathers climate change; heat, wind or rain?

After presenting my Proposal presentation during class my teacher's feedback was to narrow down the Tittle for it was to broad. We discussed it together and thought of choosing Gardens instead of Urban Design for I had done some research and found a perfect book to help guide me through.

New title: 

How Nature - Gardens Affect our well being.

Books to be used:

Gayle, S.B., 2015. Landscape and Urban Design for Well-being Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens. USA and Canada: Routledge.

Charles, C.B., 2013. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. United States of America: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.