Abstract
Under the influence of economic, environmental, and social structural changes, urban space expands and contracts to varying degrees and the everyday urban landscape changes in response. Over the past 20 years, a large number of cities in China have undergone a brief but rapid urban expansion and are moving toward shrinking cities. Most of these cities are now facing social problems such as an aging population and a high prevalence of chronic diseases. Therefore, the “therapeutic” role and impact of everyday landscapes in these cities need to be examined in the context of urban development processes through appropriate assessment methods. Therefore, this study applies the ANP-mV model to examine the therapeutic nature of everyday urban landscapes in different development periods, with the aim of enhancing the health and well-being of people with chronic diseases. Firstly, this study uses the city of Jinzhou in Northeast China as an example to develop a framework for assessing the therapeutic nature of everyday urban landscapes based on the health care needs of people with chronic diseases; secondly, it examines the therapeutic nature of the former Jinzhou Suburban Riverfront Forest Park as it has developed and evolved over the past 16 years; finally, it explores place-making and regeneration strategies for therapeutic landscapes from the perspectives of dynamic impact and sustainable development to enhance chronic illness patients' well-being. At the theoretical level, this study contributes by providing a methodology and research ideas for examining the “therapeutic” nature of everyday urban landscapes and proposing further development plans for renewal, constructing a framework for assessing therapeutic landscapes, and elucidating the relationship between networks of influence and the relative importance of various assessment dimensions/elements. At the practical application level, the contribution of this study is to provide local policymakers with a key decision basis for the future development planning of the East Lake Forest Park. The aim is to explore landscape creation and regeneration strategies for the East Lake Forest Park in the context of Jinzhou's progressive move toward a shrinking city, in order to sustain the well-being of the chronically ill.
Highlights
Previous research has repeatedly documented the restorative effects of place on health and well-being [1, 2] and has developed a number of framework concepts such as the biophilia hypothesis, the Attention Restoration eory, and the concept of healing landscapes [3]
Examining the therapeutic landscape of Jinzhou City's Donghu Forest Park for people with chronic diseases over the past 16 years applied to assign weights to the assessment elements based on expert opinion, and a modified VIKOR technique was applied to examine the therapeutic landscape of Jinzhou City’s Donghu Forest Park for people with chronic diseases over the past 16 years, in conjunction with interviews and questionnaires administered by the public
Group discussions in the focus group interviews have been centered on the questions “how does East Lake Forest Park heal and treat you” and “what elements of the landscape are healing in.” e interviews were transcribed into verbatim transcripts, and qualitative data was summarized and analyzed in Nvivo12 software. is study used the general qualitative inductive analysis method proposed by David R omas in 2006 to analyze the data
Summary
Previous research has repeatedly documented the restorative effects of place on health and well-being [1, 2] and has developed a number of framework concepts such as the biophilia hypothesis, the Attention Restoration eory, and the concept of healing landscapes [3]. E purpose of this study is to develop a framework for assessing the therapeutic nature of everyday urban landscapes based on the health care needs of people with chronic diseases, examine the therapeutic nature of the former Jinzhou Suburban Riverfront Forest Park as it has developed and evolved over the past 16 years, and explore strategies for place-making and regeneration of therapeutic landscapes for the well-being of people with chronic diseases from a dynamic impact and continuous development perspective. This study uses a literature review to initially extract the elements of therapeutic assessment for everyday urban landscapes and through focus group interviews, constructs a framework for assessing the therapeutic landscape of the East Lake Forest Park in Linghe District, Jinzhou City, based on the health care needs of people with chronic illnesses. A framework for evaluating the therapuetic landscape of empirical cases
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