Designing Urban Green Blue Infrastructure for Mental Health and Elderly Wellbeing

This explores the concept of ‘mental health-sensitive' open space design in urban environments, focusing on Urban Green Blue Infrastructure. It highlights how this design can support mental health, healthy ageing, and climate change mitigation through integrated ecosystem services. The authors present international case studies and compare design solutions that support healthy ageing through biodiversity exposure and affiliation. They emphasise the need for evidence-based design and performance indicators to adapt open spaces to urban challenges.