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Environmental Impact Assessment: The importance of throwing shade
Trees and parks benefit the mental health of city dwellers, yet Taiwan’s large cities aren’t doing enough to ensure that they are cared for properly and everyone has access to them
By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter
It’s official: Trees are good for the mental health of city dwellers.
According to a study published in Scientific Reports at the end of last year, individuals living within 100m of a high density of street trees in Leipzig, Germany, were prescribed antidepressant prescriptions at a lower rate than those who didn’t have many trees in their neighborhood.
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IMAGE: A fractal inspired carpet designed by Richard Taylor and his University of Oregon colleagues is underfoot during a reception in a Chicago building. A new study by UO psychologists working. view more
Credit: Photo by Richard Taylor
EUGENE, Ore. Dec. 11, 2020 By the time children are 3 years old they already have an adult-like preference for visual fractal patterns commonly seen in nature, according to University of Oregon researchers.
That discovery emerged among children who ve been raised in a world of Euclidean geometry, such as houses with rooms constructed with straight lines in a simple non-repeating manner, said the study s lead author Kelly E. Robles, a doctoral student in the UO s Department of Psychology.