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The relationship between sustainable built environment, art therapy and therapeutic design in promoting health and well-being

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posted on 2021-11-08, 15:26 authored by Zhen Liu, Zulan Yang, Mohamed OsmaniMohamed Osmani
At present, a smart city from the perspective of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasizes the importance of providing citizens with promising health and well-being. However, with the continuous impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the increase of city population, the health of citizens is facing new challenges. Therefore, this paper aims to assess the relationship between building, environment, landscape design, art therapy (AT), and therapeutic design (TD) in promoting health within the context of sustainable development. It also summarizes the existing applied research areas and potential value of TD that informs future research. This paper adopts the macro-quantitative and micro-qualitative research methods of bibliometric analysis. The results show that: the built environment and AT are related to sustainable development, and closely associated with health and well-being; the application of TD in the environment, architecture, space, and landscape fields promotes the realization of SDGs and lays the foundation for integrating digital technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) into the design process to potentially solve the challenges of TD; and the principle of TD can consider design elements and characteristics from based on people’s health needs to better promote human health and well-being.

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Guangzhou City Philosophy and Social Science Planning 2020 Annual Project: grant number 2020GZYB12

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volume

18

Issue

20

Publisher

MDPI

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Authors

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2021-10-12

Publication date

2021-10-17

Copyright date

2021

ISSN

1661-7827

eISSN

1660-4601

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Mohamed Osmani. Deposit date: 7 November 2021

Article number

10906

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