Urban Open Therapy Gardens in EU Cities Mission: Izmir Union Park Proposal

Ebru Alakavuk () and Duygu Cinar Umdu
Additional contact information
Ebru Alakavuk: Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Yaşar University, Bornova, İzmir 35100, Turkey
Duygu Cinar Umdu: Graduate School, Yaşar University, Bornova, İzmir 35100, Turkey

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 8, 1-19

Abstract: One of the biggest problems of societies living in modern world cities is the stress brought by a fast lifestyle. Stress affects individuals psychologically, physically, and socially. With the increase in the factors that cause stress, the need for places that individuals can use as therapy areas has also increased. Especially in this period when the 2030 100 EU (European Union) Cities Mission is determined, it is very important to design urban green spaces where the environmental and social criteria of sustainability are met, as places where society can breathe and where the society gets away from stress. In this study, based on the experiential quality criteria in outdoor therapy gardens, and the results of the evaluations made by experts and users, suggestions are made to improve the conditions of Birlik Park, located in the Gaziemir district of Izmir, one of the cities selected for the 100 EU Cities Mission, and to use it as an open space therapy garden.

Keywords: open therapy gardens; urban parks; experiential quality criteria model; 100 EU cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/8/6715/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/8/6715/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:8:p:6715-:d:1124466

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().