Redesigned Environment - Essay

  Urbanization; the increase in population density and heterogeneity in urban areas determines that the way societies adapt to this change and therefore socialization and human nature. Thus urban identity; it is constantly re-formed by both the differentiation and unification of human relations. People who leave at least part of their social support networks behind need to build new networks in their new city. This dialectical process brings more thought to the question of how integration and harmony can be achieved from diversity. Urban spaces, where social interactions and relationships take place, should highlight people's existence and encourage them to be there; in this way, everyone should be able to feel deeply the sense of belonging to the community through social interaction, communication with other people and various posts.

  With urbanization; rates of stress, depression and mental illness are also increasing urban areas globally. Imagining the city of 2050 means how to address the challenges of mass urbanization. This is about our political, economic, social fabric. A fundamental part of this is considering the mental health challenges that these massive urban populations will face. How urban design can support mental health? How can we design livability, enjoyable, safe cities for all humanity with our heart? In this point, we should do restoration the city that I imagine. Restorative environment help us regulate emotions and recover from mental fatigue, stress and the demands of everyday life.

Urban green spaces seem to positively affect mental health. Urban green space through different routes can trigger psychological and physiological responses that bring positive mental and social health outcomes. Contact with nature can provide stress relief and improve mood. What is the mean of contact with nature? Walking in the city park, biking on the road between the many of trees, viewing a nature scene or direct from our workplace, playing anything on the grass in the green park, drawing of nature on the canvas and I can do a lot of examples about living with nature. In addition, research has shown that children who grow up with local-area green space are less likely to develop a serious mental health problem in adulthood. Let me add a feature that can be carried with the migration of people from rural to urban areas; integrating green areas and natural environments into every part of the city.

Urban Planners, architects and designers; maximize accessibility to green space in public areas increased opportunities for physical activity and social interaction, reduced stress and provide communicating people without cultural and societal norms such as city parks, urban forest, quality and amount of green space.

  Another part of my future city that have welcoming community. Loneliness and poor social connectivity increase people’s anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. On the other hand if people feel belonging in place he or she can cope with life changes and mitigates feeling of loneliness, anxiety and social isolation. How “collective sense of belonging” can be possible to create? How does a happy city, a city without stress look like to me? Ideal world look like for me that It is sort of listening and believing people when they express their needs when it comes to. Every story is valid and every people have different backgrounds, memories, experiences. Every people are growing with different unique experiences day by day or maybe the experience they have same but their feelings are mostly unique. Our identity and selves are shaped not only by the places we live in or by the habits we have inherited from our families, by what we learn at school, but also by the point our soul has reached as a result of our experiences and memories (especially bad). Our souls create us, grow, raise, and keep us alive. We need each other most to understand and express our souls. We want to have a common denominator, we want to be understood no matter what race, language or religion we are. For this, we need actions such as listening, telling, trusting and sharing. The sense of belonging to a place is not limited to being born, raised and lived in that place for years. The place gains meaning with the ability to interact with the people there, share and contribute to your location. You feel more peaceful and healthy, in a city where you belong and are owned. According to these thoughts we have a big collective society that live in the same place and we can share and learn a lot of things from each other. I suggest that the idea for people’s daily life.

  Imagine the city has a “Big Belonging Green Park” in the city core or “Little Belonging Green Park1, 2, 3...“can spread all over the city like a parasitic creatures. A lot of people sharing the same park or parks and you could see different types of people come from another country or rural areas in the same city there; different types of conversation, different types of drinks being brought, different types of styles, different types of skin color and different types of memories and dreams… e.g. “Sense of Belonging” every people have their inner world. But sense of belonging in cities… How? In this “Big Belonging Green Park” (BBGP) People can create new memories, create new rituals, new conventions, new relationships, meet new friends, do new hobbies, and also they have public cooking areas like pizza oven. They can enjoy the Park after their work times or weekends or in the daytime whenever they want to come in. Public spaces can be designed with nature also animals that live in the forests or trees for humanity and peoples’ mental health. People should be connected to each other for feeling free, safe and belonging with the city. I believe that. This Park gives variety of opportunities for human so this Park bring them open perspective, bring them creativity, bring them be aware of their own experiences and those of others with listening the people and hearing their stories (like empathic person). 

CONCLUSION

What people want? How urban design can support mental health? How do people create connections to a space and what makes a home? What is the mean of belonging in place? What is the welcoming city? These questions were considered and various solutions were offered in this essay. We, who belong to and are inspired by nature, are stuck in concrete piles in urban areas. Citizens' mental health problems are constantly on the rise. Besides individual concerns, urban conditions and city characteristics are indirectly a factor for the mental and social well-being of residents. Thus, mental health is the most important issue we need to address and pay attention to while making our designs today. What is important is how we can make people's lives better with architectural interventions and touches before various damages occur. What can architecture do to create a livable and happy world? The topics I covered in this essay. When people migrate from rural to urban areas, they need interaction, ownership and socialization so that they do not feel lonely and stress. We should carry the principle of being green and intertwined with nature from rural areas to boring but developed and technological urban areas. We should produce various public spaces that will increase social interactions and try to bring a sense of belonging to the city. It has been determined that mental health problems are much less in cities where all these suggestions or similar ones can be applied and that people live in a calmer welfare.

We as architects and citizens can to take care of our own people. This little piece of land we have is our home. If we want to make better and healthy communities we need communities to communicate nature and each other. We need to take care about people’s feelings and their needs when we creating the public spaces or any places.

Living with Nature

Saving the Nature

Loving the Nature

Eating from Nature

Because of…….

We All Humanity are Belonging with Nature

Nature can be improve our societies’ mental health.

Everyone deserves good design.