Landscape quality and quality of life

Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health: Open Space: People Space 2

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 230-255

  Thompson, Catharine Ward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874575483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203853252     Document Type: Chapter

References (74)

1. Alves, S., Aspinall, P., Ward Thompson, C., Sugiyama, T., Brice, R. and Vickers, A. (2008) 'Preferences of older people for environmental attributes of local parks: the use of choice-based conjoint analysis', Facilities, 26 (11/12): 433-53.
2. Appleton, J. (1975) The Experience of Landscape, New York: Wiley.
3. Appleyard, D., Lynch, K. and Myer, J. R. (1964) The View from the Road, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
4. Aspinall, P., Ward Thompson, C., Alves, S., Sugiyama, T., Vickers, A. and Brice, R. (2010, in press) 'Understanding the relative importance of older people's preferences for different attributes of neighbourhood open space', Environment and Planning B.
5. Bauer, G., Davies, J. K., Pelikan, J., Noack, H., Broesskamp, U. and Hill, C. (2003) 'Advancing a theoretical model for public health and health promotion indicator development. Proposal from the EUHPID consortium', European Journal of Public Health, 13: 107-13 (supplement).
6. Bedimo-Rung, A. L., Mowen, A. J. and Cohen, D. A. (2005) 'The significance of parks to physical activity and public health: A conceptual model', American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 28 (2S2): 159-68.
7. Bell, S., Morris, N., Findlay, C., Travlou, P., Montarzino, A., Gooch, D. et al. (2004) Nature for People: The Importance of Green Spaces to East Midlands Communities, Research Report 567, Peterborough: English Nature.
8. Bourassa, S. C. (1991) The Aesthetics of Landscape, New York: Belhaven.
9. Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979) The Ecology of Human Development, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
10. Bronfenbrenner, U. (ed.) (2005) Making Human Beings Human: Bioecological Perspectives on Human Development, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
11. Broomhall, M., Giles-Corti, B. and Lange, A. (2004) Quality of Public Open Space Tool (POST). Perth, Western Australia.
12. Burton, N. W., Haynes, M., Wilson, L. M., Giles-Corti, B., Oldenburg, B. F., Brown, W. J., Giskes, K. and Turrell, G. (2009) 'HABITAT: A longitudinal multilevel study of physical activity change in mid-aged adults', BMC Public Health, 9: 76.
13. CABE Space (2005a) Does Money Grow on Trees? London: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).
14. CABE Space (2005b) Start with the Park: Creating Sustainable Urban Green Spaces in Areas of Housing Growth and Renewal, London: CABE.
15. CABE Space (2007) Spaceshaper: A User's Guide, London: CABE.
16. CABE Space (2009) Making the Invisible Visible: The Real Value of Park Assets, London: CABE.
17. Canter, D. (1985) 'The Road to Jerusalem', in D. Canter (ed.) Facet Theory: Approaches to Social Research, New York: Springer-Verlag.
18. Convention on Biological Diversity (1993) Convention on Biological Diversity (with annexes). Concluded at Rio de Janeiro on 5 June 1992, registered ex officio on 29 December 1993, available at: (accessed 21 August 2009).
19. Cortright, J. (2009) Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Home Values in U.S. Cities, Cortright, Impresa, for CEOs for Cities, August 2009, available at: (accessed 23 August 2009).
20. Croucher, K., Myers, L. and Bretherton, J. (2007) The Links Between Greenspace and Health: A Critical Literature Review, York: University of York.
21. De Bourdeaudhuij, I., Teixeira, P., Cardon, G. and Deforche, B. (2005) 'Environmental and psychosocial correlates of physical activity in Portuguese and Belgian adults', Public Health Nutrition, 8 (7): 886-95.
22. Department for Transport (DfT) (2005) Home Zones: Challenging the Future of our Streets, London:DfT.
23. Dramstad, W. E., Olson, J. D. and Forman, R. T. T. (1996) Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning, Washington, D.C.: Harvard University GSD, Island Press and ASLA.
24. Edinburgh, University of (1974) Applecross Peninsula Study 2, Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Second Year Project, 1973-74, University of Edinburgh.
25. Elders Council of Newcastle (2008). Older Person Friendly City Parks and Recreation Areas: Report from Working Group, September 2008, Newcastle upon Tyne: Elders Council of Newcastle.
26. Fitzsimons, C., Baker, G., Wright, A., Nimmo, M., Ward Thompson, C., Lowry, R., Millington, C., Shaw, R., Fenwick, E., Ogilvie, D., Inchley, J. and Mutrie, N. (2008) 'The 'Walking for Well-being in the West' study, a pedometer-based walking programme in combination with a physical activity consultation with 12-month follow-up: rationale and study design', BMC Public Health, 8: 259.
27. Forman, R. T. T. (1995) Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
28. Frumkin, H. (2001) 'Beyond toxicity: human health and the natural environment', American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 20 (3): 234-40.
29. Gibson, J. (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Boston, Mass.: Houghton-Mifflin.
30. Goličnik, B. and Ward Thompson, C. (2010) 'Emerging relationships between design and use of urban park spaces', Landscape and Urban Planning, 94: 38-53.
31. Greenspace Scotland (2008) Greenspace and Quality of Life: A Critical Literature Review, Research Report, Stirling: Greenspace Scotland.
32. Greenspace Scotland (nd) Greenspace and Community Safety. Making the Links: Technical Briefing Note No. 9. Commissioned jointly by Communities Scotland, NHS Health Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and Greenspace Scotland. Stirling: Greenspace Scotland.
33. Greenspace Scotland (2009) Making the Links: Greenspace for a more Successful and Sustainable Scotland, Stirling: Greenspace Scotland.
34. Handley, J., Pauleit, S., Slinn, P., Barber, A., Baker, M., Jones, C. et al. (2003). Accessible Natural Green Space Standards in Towns and Cities: A Review and Toolkit for their Implementation, Research Report 526, Peterborough: English Nature.
35. Hartig, T. (2007). 'Three steps to understanding restorative environments as health resources', in C. Ward Thompson and P. Travlou (eds), Open Space: People Space, Abingdon: Taylor & Francis: 163-79.
36. Hartig, T., Evans, G. W., Jamner, L. D., Davis, D. S. and Garling, T. (2003) 'Tracking restoration in natural and urban field settings', Journal of Environmental Psychology, 23 (2): 109-23. I'DGO (Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors) .
37. James, P., Tzoulos, K., Adams, M. D., Barber, A., Box, J., Breuste, J., Elmqvist, T., Frith, M., Gordon, C., Greening, K. L., Handley, J., Haworth, S., Kazmierczak, A. E., Johnston, M., Korpela, K., Moretti, M., Niemalä, J., Pauleit, S., Roe, M. H., Sadler, J. P. and Ward Thompson, C. (2009) 'Towards an integrated understanding of green space in the built environment', Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 8: 65-75.
38. Kaplan, R. and Kaplan, S. (1989) The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective, New York:Cambridge University Press.
39. Kaplan, R., Kaplan, S. and Ryan, R. L. (1998) With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature, Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
40. Kellert, R. and Wilson, E. O. (eds.) (1993) The Biophilia Hypothesis, Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
41. Kelly, G. (1955) The Psychology of Personal Constructs, New York: Norton.
42. Little, B. R. (1983) 'Personal projects: A rationale and method for investigation', Environment and Behavior, 15 (3): 273-309.
43. Little, B. R. (2000) 'Persons, contexts, and personal projects: assumptive themes of a methodological transactionalism', in S. Wapner, J. Demick, T. Yamamoto and H. Minami (eds), Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research: Underlying Assumptions, Research Problems, and Methodologies, New York: Plenum.
44. Maas, J., Verheij, R. A., Spreeuwenberg, P. and Groenewegen, P. P. (2008) 'Physical activity as a possible mechanism behind the relationship between green space and health: a multilevel analysis', BMC Public Health, 8: e206.
45. Margulis, L. (2000) Symbiotic Planet (A New Look at Evolution), New York: Basic Books.
46. Millington, C., Ward Thompson, C., Rowe, D., Aspinall, P., Fitzsimons, C., Nelson, N. and Mutrie, N. (2009) 'Development of the Scottish Walkability Assessment Tool (SWAT)', Health and Place, 15: 474-81.
47. Millington, C., Aspinall, P., Baker, G., Fitzsimons, C., Mutrie, N. and Ward Thompson, C. (under review) Does the environment around people's homes predict how much they walk?
48. Morris, J. N. and Hardman, A. (1997) 'Walking to health', Sports Medicine, 23: 306-32.
49. Myers, M. S. and Ward Thompson, C. (2003) 'Interviews and questionnaires', in S. Bell (ed.), Crossplan: Integrated, Participatory Landscape Planning as a Tool for Rural Development, Edinburgh: Forestry Commission: 17-29.
50. Pikora, T., Bull, F., Jamrozik, K., Knuiman, M., Giles-Corti, B. and Donovan, R. (2002) 'Developing a reliable audit instrument to measure the physical environment for physical activity', American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 23: 187-94.
51. Pikora, T., Giles-Corti, B., Knuiman, M., Bull, F., Jamrozik, K. and Donovan, R. (2006) 'Neighborhood environmental factors correlated with walking near home: Using SPACES', Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 38 (4): 708-14.
52. PPS (2009) Key Factors in Planning, Designing and Maintaining Safer Parks, available at: (accessed 12 September 2009).
53. Saelens, B. E., Sallis, J. F., Black, J. B. and Chen, D. (2003) 'Neighborhood-based differences in physical activity: an environment scale evaluation', American Journal of Public Health, 93: 1552-8.
54. Scott, M. J. (1998) The Environmental Correlates of Creativity and Innovation in Industrial Research Laboratories, Ph.D. thesis, University of Liverpool.
55. Southwell, K. and Findlay, C. (2007) '''You just follow the signs": understanding visitor wayfinding problems in the countryside', in C. Ward Thompson and P. Travlou (eds), Open Space: People Space, Abingdon: Routledge: 111 24.
56. Southwell, K., Ward Thompson, C. and Findlay, C. (2007) Site Finder: Assessing the Countryside Visitor's Wayfinding Experience, Edinburgh: OPENspace research centre, Edinburgh College of Art.
57. Southwell, K., Ward Thompson, C. and Roe, J. (2009) Better Woodland Walks (Unpublished pilot audit tool by OPENspace research centre), Edinburgh College of Art, for Forestry Commission Scotland.
58. Sugiyama, T., Leslie, E., Giles-Corti, B. and Owen, N. (2008) 'Associations of neighbourhood greenness with physical and mental health: do walking, social coherence and local social interaction explain the relationships?' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62:e9.
59. Sugiyama, T. and Ward Thompson, C. (2007a) 'Measuring the quality of the outdoor environment relevant to older people's lives', in C. Ward Thompson and P. Travlou (eds.) Open Space: People Space, Abingdon: Taylor & Francis: 153-62.
60. Sugiyama, T. and Ward Thompson, C. (2007b) 'Older people's health, outdoor activity and supportiveness of neighbourhood environments', Landscape and Urban Planning, 83: 168-75.
61. Sugiyama, T. and Ward Thompson, C. (2007c) 'Outdoor environments, activity and the well-being of older people: conceptualising environmental support', Environment and Planning A, 39:1943-60.
62. Sugiyama, T. and Ward Thompson, C. (2008) 'Associations between characteristics of neighbourhood open space and older people's walking', Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 7 (1): 41-51.
63. Sustrans (2009) DIY Streets, Project Review 2009, Bristol: Sustrans.
64. Thompson, I. (2000) Ecology, Community and Delight: Sources of Values in Landscape Architecture, London: E. & F. N. Spon.
65. Travlou, P. (2007) 'Mapping youth spaces in the public realm: identity, space and social exclusion', in C. Ward Thompson and P. Travlou (eds), Open Space: People Space, London: Taylor & Francis: 71-81.
66. Ward Thompson, C. (2002) 'Urban open space in the 21st century', Landscape and Urban Planning, 60 (2): 59-72.
67. Ward Thompson, C. (2005) 'Common threads in a changing world: landscape and health.' Keynote paper presented at 'Landscape Change', 17th European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) Conference, Ankara University, 14-18 September 2005.
68. Ward Thompson, C., Aspinall, P., Bell, S., Findlay, C., Wherrett, J. and Travlou, P. (2004). Open Space and Social Inclusion: Local Woodland Use in Central Scotland, Edinburgh: Forestry Commission.
69. Ward Thompson, C., Aspinall, P., Bell, S. and Findlay, C. (2005) ''It gets you away from everyday life': local woodlands and community use what makes a difference?', Landscape Research, 30 (1): 109-46.
70. Ward Thompson, C. and Scott Myers, M. (2004) 'Community perceptions of local landscapes', Landscape, 21 (1): 7-18.
71. Ward Thompson, C., Roe, J. and Alves, S. (2007) Woods in and Around Towns (WIAT), Evaluation:Baseline Survey, unpublished report for Forestry Commission Scotland, Edinburgh, UK:OPENspace research centre.
72. World Health Organization (WHO) (1948) Definition of health, available at: (accessed 12 September 2009).
73. Worpole, K. (2007) '"The health of the people is the highest law": Public health, public policy and green space', in C. Ward Thompson and P. Travlou (eds), Open Space: People Space, Abingdon:Taylor & Francis: 11-21.
74. Zeisel, J. (2007) 'Healing gardens for people living with Alzheimer's: challenges to creating an evidence base for treatment outcomes', in C. Ward Thompson and P. Travlou (eds), Open Space: People Space, Abingdon: Taylor & Francis: 137-50.