Garden

The design and management of the natural environments available to suburbanites and city dwellers have a significant influence on the well-being of humans and their planet.

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People over 50 who garden are more satisfied with their personal lives and level of physical activity than non-gardeners. 

Nature experiences have an important influence on human attitudes and behaviors.

A recently published study from Australia reports that community gardening has psychological benefits as well as physical ones (exercise and healthy food). 

Urban community gardens have a positive impact on the lives of people living near them.

Appropriately designed gardens should be considered as an alternative to home air conditioning.

Wild nature is not the only place for restoration. Many diverse places can provide that benefit.

More often than not, the outdoor environment of a senior ‘retirement’ community is ignored and people focus on the attributes of a building's interior.  However, the activities that can be offered on the outside of a building are almost limitless, constrained only by the imagination, and not by a person's age.

Kenneth Helphand presents case studies of unlikely gardens in Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime.