HANDBOOK OF BIOPHILIC CITY PLANNING AND DESIGN

摘要

Timothy Beatley's Handbook of Biophilic City Planning and Design is grounded by the proposition that connecting people, living in cities, with urban nature is necessary. The author contends that people are biophilic, that is, they are innately predisposed to connect with other life forms and they receive massive physical and emotional benefits through contact with natural settings. Connecting people to nature makes them understand it better, care about it more, and become not only stewards of their home habitat, but more creative and generous human beings.