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How Does Buddhist Contemplative Space Facilitate the Practice of Mindfulness? (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, A., Porter, N., & Tang, Y. (2022). How Does Buddhist Contemplative Space Facilitate the Practice of Mindfulness?. Religions, 13(5), Article 437. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050437

This paper examines the spaces where Buddhist spiritual activity—specifically mindfulness practice—takes place, exploring how contemporary urban Buddhist contemplative places may benefit people’s mindful experience. Historical Buddhist contemplative... Read More about How Does Buddhist Contemplative Space Facilitate the Practice of Mindfulness?.

Educating the mindful design practitioner (2021)
Journal Article
Altay, B., & Porter, N. (2021). Educating the mindful design practitioner. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 41, Article 100842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100842

Mindfulness applications are increasing exponentially across many disciplines. However, mindfulness theory and practice within design pedagogy is relatively scarce. What are the operational concepts and applications of mindfulness for acquiring desig... Read More about Educating the mindful design practitioner.

Contested grounds; the regeneration of Liverpool waterfront (2020)
Journal Article
Fageir, M., Porter, N., & Borsi, K. (2021). Contested grounds; the regeneration of Liverpool waterfront. Planning Perspectives, 36(3), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2020.1804989

This paper explores the process by which the regeneration of Liverpool waterfront took place over the past few decades. It adopts a case study method to identify different trends and patterns and to examine their impact on the emerging urban landscap... Read More about Contested grounds; the regeneration of Liverpool waterfront.

Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems (2020)
Book Chapter
Zawawi, A. A., Porter, N., & Ives, C. D. (2020). Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems. In R. M. Doheim, A. A. Farag, & E. Kamel (Eds.), Humanizing cities through car-free city development and transformation (32-71). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3507-3.ch002

This chapter describes how greenways can be a constituent of sustainable urban mobility (SUM) systems that reduce automobile dependence while simultaneously having positive environmental and social co-benefits. It begins by providing a brief backgrou... Read More about Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems.

Strategic planning and place branding in a World Heritage cultural landscape: a case study of the English Lake District, UK (2020)
Journal Article
Porter, N. (2020). Strategic planning and place branding in a World Heritage cultural landscape: a case study of the English Lake District, UK. European Planning Studies, 28(7), 1291-1314. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1701297

What roles do strategic planning and place branding play in the context of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS)? Here it is theorized that the processes associated with the nomination and management of WHS cultural landscapes involve an integration of p... Read More about Strategic planning and place branding in a World Heritage cultural landscape: a case study of the English Lake District, UK.

Mindful places: the psychology and design of healing environments (2019)
Book Chapter
Porter, N. (2019). Mindful places: the psychology and design of healing environments. In The Places of Mind Practice: From Mind to Environment [????? ?: ???? ???? ] (39-66). Iksan, South Korea: Knowledge Community

How does the external physical environment interact with the internal environment of the mind, and our mind-body experience? In this paper, I will explore how the spaces and places of our increasingly urbanised world affect human well-being, drawing... Read More about Mindful places: the psychology and design of healing environments.

A feeling for what's best: landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England (2017)
Journal Article
Tatum, K., Porter, N., & Hale, J. (2017). A feeling for what's best: landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England. Journal of Rural Studies, 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.09.013

In England's national parks, the design of new dwellings represents a significant and contested part of landscape planning, inseparable from park conservation ideologies and policies. Within public discourse, new housing proposals can be praised for... Read More about A feeling for what's best: landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England.

Mindfulness and design: creating spaces for well being (2017)
Book Chapter
Porter, N., Bramham, J., & Thomas, M. (2017). Mindfulness and design: creating spaces for well being. In F. J. Saavedra Macías, A. Español Nogueiro, S. Arias Sánchez, & M. Calderón García (Eds.), Creative practices for improving health and social inclusion: 5th International Health Humanities Conference, Sevilla 2016. Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación

What is the relationship between mindfulness therapy and the physical settings in which it is practiced? Mindfulness is defined as ―paying attention to what‘s happening in the present moment in the mind, body and external environment, with an attitud... Read More about Mindfulness and design: creating spaces for well being.

Branding landscape (2017)
Journal Article
Porter, N. (2017). Branding landscape. LA+, 5,

Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. Reviewed: Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks (Second Edition) By Deidre Slattery. Clayton South, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. xvii + 302 pp. AU$ 45.00, US$ 35.95. ISBN 978-1-486-30171-3. (2017)
Journal Article
Porter, N. (in press). Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. Reviewed: Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks (Second Edition) By Deidre Slattery. Clayton South, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. xvii + 302 pp. AU$ 45.00, US$ 35.95. ISBN 978-1-486-30171-3. Mountain Research and Development, 37(1), https://doi.org/10.1659/mrd.mm201

Wilderness, camera, action: conservation, commercialisation and change in National Parks landscapes (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Porter, N. (2015). Wilderness, camera, action: conservation, commercialisation and change in National Parks landscapes. In Landscapes in Flux, 223-226

How is wilderness defined, and how do such definitions change over time? It has long been recognised that the idea of wilderness and perceptions of nature in general, are socially, politically, culturally and legally constructed. In this paper, a hig... Read More about Wilderness, camera, action: conservation, commercialisation and change in National Parks landscapes.

Regenerating Liverpool Pier Head waterfront: the role of urban design (2015)
Journal Article
Fageir, M., Porter, N., & Borsi, K. (2015). Regenerating Liverpool Pier Head waterfront: the role of urban design. https://doi.org/10.15340/2148193811851

This paper investigates the processes by which the regeneration of the historical Pier Head waterfront in Liverpool took place during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The research focuses on three key regeneration projects at Pier Head W... Read More about Regenerating Liverpool Pier Head waterfront: the role of urban design.

‘Enhancing natural beauty’ or ‘poems thrust in my face’?: perceptions of artworks in ‘wild’ landscape settings (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Porter, N. (2015). ‘Enhancing natural beauty’ or ‘poems thrust in my face’?: perceptions of artworks in ‘wild’ landscape settings. In Landscape, Wilderness and the Wild (186-193)

What role can (or should) artworks play in non-urban landscapes, particularly those perceived as ‘wild’? Conceptions of natural landscapes are a part of cultural discourse, and consequently artworks can both reflect and affect concepts of wilderness.... Read More about ‘Enhancing natural beauty’ or ‘poems thrust in my face’?: perceptions of artworks in ‘wild’ landscape settings.

"Single-minded, compelling, and unique": visual communications, landscape, and the calculated aesthetic of place branding (2013)
Journal Article
Porter, N. (2013). "Single-minded, compelling, and unique": visual communications, landscape, and the calculated aesthetic of place branding. Environmental Communication, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2013.779291

Place branding strategies play a significant role in the professional composition of landscape imagery, including the depiction of “natural” landscapes. In this paper, Brand Blue Mountains, a brand currently implemented in the Blue Mountains region (... Read More about "Single-minded, compelling, and unique": visual communications, landscape, and the calculated aesthetic of place branding.