Urban Design Strategies of Public Space Based on Danger Stress Response

Abstract:

Facing the increasingly severe situation of city security issues, researches on urban planning and design have gradually expanded. However, problems in connection with people are not taken seriously. Regardless of disaster type, human beings, as one group of the disaster receptors, produce a similar psychological and physiological response to threats. Therefore, disaster prevention and mitigation should be people-oriented. Based on danger stress response, this paper analyses types and characteristics of thinking and behavior in disasters or emergencies and reflects the significance of people-oriented urban safety design. In addition, this paper takes public space, which plays an important role in urban security as the main subject and proposes urban design strategies on appeasing negative psychological and behavioral stress response, attempts to provide a scientific basis for effective disaster prevention strategies in order to minimize the hazards to humans caused by physical and psychological impact.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 450-451)
• Pages: 1026-1031
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.450-451.1026
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Le Xia He, Su Ning Xu
• Keywords: City Safety, Danger Stress Response, Public space, Urban Design

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