A Meta-Method Overview of Restorative Urban Environment Approach

oday, the rapid expansion of cities and urban lifestyles has led to increasing problems such as urbanites' undermined mental health. Although reviewing studies on the "restorative environment" approach indicates a wide variety of studies on how natural environments influence human mental health, how urban built environments affect urbanites' mental health has been investigated only in recent decades and without a specific framework. This is while even in Iran, only a few studies have been carried out on this issue in natural and therapeutic environment frameworks. The present study aims to identify and introduce the methodological framework used in the studies on restorative urban environments to provide a suitable ground for domestic research by reviewing their results. To this end, using a meta-method approach, out of 136 English articles published in the period 1999-2019, 30 articles are selected. Next, they are coded and analyzed separately based on Saunders's research onion using content analysis. The results show that like natural environments, urban environments can have restorative quality if they observe certain conditions. The main course of methodology is based on quantitative Multiple -method studies relying on experimental and survey strategies. These studies are carried out using various types of environmental and individual self-response questionnaires and comparative and relational parametric statistical analyzes