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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1958-1967, November 2026.
Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
wiley   +1 more source

Outdoor wayfinding in dementia

, 2006
We aimed in this study to investigate (1) outdoor wayfinding performance of people with dementia; and (2) which features of the outdoor built environment are used in wayfinding by people with dementia.
Sheehan, Bart, Burton, Elizabeth J., Mitchell, Lynne, Dr.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Views of the Wayfinding Task.

, 2023
(A) The shape of the layout of our Wayfinding Task. (B) Bird’s eye view of the Wayfinding scenery. (C) Beth (left) and Anna (right), positioned in a room of the Wayfinding Task just before left/right crossroads.
Larissa Brübach (17468311), Alexandra L. Georgescu (9311551), Jessica Glazov (17468314), Caroline Catmur (294081), Stephanie Gu (17468317), Rahila Kashif (17468320), Michael F. Clements (17468308)   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Developing family-friendly signage in a South African paediatric healthcare setting [PDF]

, 2014
*Background: Multiple renovations and changing flow in a tertiary children’s hospital in Cape Town resulted in numerous signs being posted in the corridors and units, making wayfinding extremely complex.
Coetzee, Minette, Anchen Verster, Verster, Anchen, Angela L. Leonard, Minette Coetzee, Leonard, Angela   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Urban Infrastructures of Care: Buses as Resources for Recovery and Mental Wellbeing

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 8, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Although transport infrastructures are increasingly recognised as determinants of urban wellbeing, their role in trajectories of becoming well and becoming ill has received little empirical and theoretical attention, particularly in serious mental ill‐health.
Marc Winz, Ola Söderström, Aurora Ruggeri, Jérôme Favrod, Jules Brischoux, Anastasie Jordan, Lilith Abrahamyan Empson, Philippe Conus   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing the digital adoption in healthcare built environments: a framework for a therapeutic user-based wayfinding system

Frontiers in Medical Technology
The efficacy of wayfinding systems in healthcare settings holds significant implications for many users, including patients, visitors, and healthcare professionals.
Yasmin Garcia-Sterling, Karim Farghaly, Michael Pitt   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Street Furniture as an Assetizing Apparatus: Advertising Concessions, Public Maintenance and the Production of Neoliberal Urban Space in Glasgow

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Across British cities, everyday street infrastructure is increasingly sustained through revenue‐generating concessions that detach maintenance from direct municipal budgets. This article examines how street furniture in Glasgow has been incrementally reorganized as an assetizing apparatus under prolonged austerity.
Sinan Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Risks in the Care of People With Dementia in Acute Hospital Settings: Definitions, Types and Management Strategies—A Scoping Review

Journal of Clinical Nursing, Volume 35, Issue 11, Page 4708-4724, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Aims This scoping review explores how risk is defined, managed and mitigated in the care of people with dementia in acute hospital settings. Methods This scoping review followed Arksesy and O'Malley's five‐stage framework (2005) and was guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology.
Ashitha Bhaskaran, Kate Irving, Eileen Courtney, Bert Gordijn, Marie Cantwell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing user experience through wayfinding in educational buildings [PDF]

Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii
The process of navigating through an environment to reach a desired destination is known as wayfinding. It involves understanding one's current location, determining the desired destination and choosing a path to get there.
Mansha Samreen, Gargi Jha
doaj  

Spatial Learning with Orientation Maps: The Influence of Different Environmental Features on Spatial Knowledge Acquisition

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
The prevalent use of GPS-based navigation systems impairs peoples’ ability to orient themselves. This paper investigates whether wayfinding maps that accentuate different types of environmental features support peoples’ spatial learning.
Heinrich Löwen, Jakub Krukar, Angela Schwering   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source