ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization in their recent booklet “Green and Blue Spaces and Mental Health: New Evidence and Perspectives for Action” foresees quite worrisome future developments such as fewer opportunities for contact with nature in residential areas while increasing necessity of working from home, greenery per capita reduction, and further deterioration of mental health of communities due to the climate change. The technological developments and emerging concept of citizen-science motivate the city researchers and decision makers to collect and analyze the unprecedented amounts of data. In the future then, enhanced VR technology might replace the traditional drawing and presentation tools of a landscape architect or urban planner. Incorporating multi-sensory VR simulations might also advance research in the area of testing different nature-based interventions. The point cloud technology enabled by the Lidar scanners hardware is already portable enough to fit on mobile devices.
