Urban Planning throughout Human Well-Being

Abstract:

Urban planning is a comprehensive subject and continually related with other areas. As the main living space, cities play an important role to people’s life in many aspects. From the view of health and life quality that are mainly affect human wellbeing, the article analysis the affection of urban planning to human wellbeing. The author suggests a multi-disciplinary approach for understanding of the human well-being in urban planning area, and exploring the human well-being oriented urban planning development.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 174-177)
• Pages: 2498-2504
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.174-177.2498
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Liang Wang
• Keywords: Health, Life Quality, Livable City, Urban Planning, Well-Being

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