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.