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High-Rise Apartments and Urban Mental Health—Historical and Contemporary Views

Challenges (Basel), 2019-07, Vol.10 (2), p.34 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
High-Rise Apartments and Urban Mental Health—Historical and Contemporary Views
Author: Danica-Lea Larcombe ; Eddie van Etten ; Logan, Alan ; Prescott, Susan L ; Horwitz, Pierre
Subjects: Affordable housing ; Anxiety ; Apartment buildings ; Apartments ; Architecture ; Buildings ; Cities ; High rise buildings ; high-rise apartments ; Housing developments ; Industrialized nations ; Mental depression ; Mental disorders ; Mental health ; Outdoor air quality ; Psychological stress ; Quality of life ; Residential areas ; Social interactions ; social justice ; socioeconomic status ; Stress ; Urbanization ; wellbeing
Is Part Of: Challenges (Basel), 2019-07, Vol.10 (2), p.34
Description: High-rise apartment buildings have long been associated with the poor mental health of their residents. The aims of this paper are to examine whether this connection is necessarily so, by reviewing the evidence relating to the relationships between high-rise living and social wellbeing, occupant’s stress levels, and the influence they have on mental health. From selected literature, psychological stress and poor mental health outcomes of the populations that live in high-rise apartments are indeed apparent, and this is particularly so for apartments in poor neighbourhoods. Yet many apartments in developed cities are in affluent areas (particularly those with views of green/blue space), where residences on higher floors are more expensive. Either way, high-rise living and mental health outcomes are a social justice issue. Our review allows us to propose two models relating to high-rise living relevant today, based on these differences.
Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 2078-1547
EISSN: 2078-1547
DOI: 10.3390/challe10020034
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