Article Title
Keywords
Psychological stress, Public spaces, Social interaction, human perception, urban life
Disciplines
Architecture | Business | Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Stress is considered the most nervous impact that affects human life due to pressure from many reasons, one of the external factors is the Built environment. The public space as a surrounding context plays a main effective role in human psychological mood whether negative or positive. The paper aims to evaluate urban public spaces, especially from the users’ activities in relation to stress factors, these applied through public spaces in Tripoli city, Lebanon. The methodology will be through an analytical study using observation and a questionnaire to measure the types of users’ activities in public spaces and their sense of pressure and stress. The results of this study are important to develop a methodology to design non-stressed psychological public spaces.
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ELSAMAHY, ESLAM Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture-Design and Built Environment, and ABD EL-FATTAH, RANA Lecturer (PhD Holder), Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts
(2018)
"DESIGNING NON-STRESSED PSYCHOLOGICAL PUBLIC SPACES,"
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing: Vol. 1:
Iss.
3, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8288.1063
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