In the prior assessment of photographs,we showed adults of differrent ages more than 300 pictures of rural and urban scenes to assess which they would assign to pleasant or unpleasant categories.
Many peoplealso struggled to say any rural scene was unpleasant. They agreed that a pile of rubbish or an abandoned car would make a rural scene unpleasant, but they also tended to assume that these ploblems were temporary.
urban scenes with green, such as urban parks, domestic gardens or allotments, together with water and blue sky, were seen as pleasant.
These findings support the idea that the incorporation of water and green spaces into well-maintained urban environments might have a positive effect on public health