From the perspective of landscape and human health, we use the Self-Rating Restoration Scale (SRRS) as a tool to explore the mental health restoration benefits brought by a landscape environment to individuals and explore the characteristics of individual movement behavior when viewing the landscape through the eye movement tracking technology. We selected average blink duration, average gaze length, average saccade amplitude, blink number, number of fixation points, saccade number, and average pupil diameter as experimental indicators for data monitoring. Based on the eye movement heat map obtained by data visualization processing and the results of correlation analysis, we summarized the eye movement behavior characteristics of individuals when viewing the restorative landscape. We try to construct a quantitative evaluation model of the landscape mental recovery benefit with the objective eye movement index as the independent variable through the method of curve estimation. The study results show that individual eye movement behavior is related to the landscape type and the level of psychological recovery is also different. (1)The more singular that the constituent elements are, the more widespread and concentrated the regional distribution of individual attention areas, and the relative psychological recovery benefit is relatively weak. The more complex that the constituent elements are, the more scattered and smaller the individual interest area, and the psychological recovery benefit is better. Brightly colored, dynamic landscapes are easier to form areas of interest to improve the psychological response to the human body. (2) The psychological recovery benefit of the landscape is directly proportional to the changing trend of the average blink duration, number of fixation points, and number of saccades and is inversely proportional to the changing trend of the average gaze length. (3) The objective eye movement index of average blink duration can quantitatively predict the psychological recovery benefit value of the landscape environment. The number of fixation points, the number of saccades, and the average fixation length could predict the psychological recovery benefits of the landscape, while the other indicators had no prediction effect.
From the perspective of landscape environment and human health, this study introduces the concept of soundscape from soundscape ecology. Through two experiments evaluating the restorative properties of soundscapes, it analyzes and compares the differences in restorative benefits among various sounds in urban green spaces. The study further explores the effects of single soundscapes and combined soundscape types on environmental restorative benefits and provides recommendations for creating restorative soundscapes in urban green spaces. The main findings of this study are as follows: (1) Sound types significantly influence soundscape restorative benefits, with notable interactions observed among three single soundscape categories. Significant differences were also found in the restorative effects of different combined soundscapes. (2) The most restorative sounds for anthropogenic, biophonic, and geophonic soundscapes are light background music (1.4193), bird sounds (1.9890), and flowing water sounds (1.2691), respectively. The least restorative sounds are vehicle noise (−2.6210), conversation sounds (−0.8788), and thunder sounds (−0.7840). (3) Significant differences exist between the restorative effects of single and multi-level combined soundscapes. Except for bird sounds, the general restorative pattern is as follows: two-level combined soundscapes > three-level combined soundscapes > single soundscapes.
Urban community parks have significant benefits for city residents, both physical and spiritual. This is especially true in developing countries, such as China. The purpose of our study is to describe the current situation of the community parks in five main districts of Jinan City while recognizing features of the community parks that influence usage patterns. Our study also means to determine the desired improvements of visitors that promote access to and use of community parks on the basis of the Chinese context. We conducted a survey among 542 community park visitors and obtained valid responses. The findings of respondents show that community parks are mostly used by people over 55 years (34.7%) and children under 10 years (23.6%). The main motives for using community parks are for exercise (24.2%) and to socialize with others (21.6%). The majority of respondents (65.7%) rated the community park as satisfactory and considered only a few improvements needed. Regarding the desired improvements, numerous respondents mentioned adding more physical training facilities (13.3%) and activity areas (7.6%), as well as emergency call buttons in areas frequented by children and older people (7.6%). Furthermore, most of the respondents (79.9%) indicated that they would like to use the community parks more frequently if there is additional progress to make the parks more attractive, cleaner, and friendlier. These results can help park designers, government agencies, and community groups to provide the planning and design strategies for community parks to promote their upgrading in China.
From the color geography perspective, a field investigation was conducted in the Minjiang River Basin, constructing a color index system of traditional villages. In Python, a random forest model was constructed to screen out important color indexes for traditional village color classification and explore its influence mechanism. Among eight color indexes, the important indexes are wall form and building face form, accounting for 30.50% and 19.40%, respectively. Based on this, the basin was divided into four color zones presenting color characteristics and eight color subzones presenting architectural features. The influence mechanism concerns dialect divisions that have shaped traditional villages of different color types, and the interconnection of water systems has promoted the connections among them. The application of traditional village colors in the new urban and rural planning can enhance local characteristics. Integrating the color resources of traditional villages contributes to the regional protection of culture and economic development.
The colors of traditional dwellings are an extremely intuitive manifestation of regional culture and an important reference for guiding rural housing. This study takes the Gutian district as the research region and explores the internal influence mechanism of the “color perception–preference–supportive behavior” of the indigenous residents towards traditional dwellings, specifically rammed earth dwellings. After constructing a structural equation model, the results were as follows: (1) The color perception of the indigenous residents towards traditional dwellings has two dimensions: distinctiveness and rootedness. (2) The color perception of the indigenous residents towards traditional dwellings can significantly enhance their color preference, but the two dimensions of color perception have different effects on color preference. (3) Color perception has a direct impact on color supportive behavior, mainly reflected in the dimension of the perception of distinctiveness. On the other hand, the mediating role of color preference has a positive impact on color—supportive behavior, mainly reflected in the dimension of the perception of rootedness. This study constructs a positive—cycle model that goes from the strengthening of color perception to the promotion of color preference and finally to the enhancement of color supportive behavior. The aim is to deeply analyze the multiple values contained in the colors of traditional dwellings, which not only demonstrate regional characteristics but also closely meet the emotional needs of the indigenous residents and have broad application potential in rural housing and cultural inheritance significance.