Week 1 - What kind of stress?

Of our list of city-associated stresses, we were most intrigued by:

Noise pollution
Lack of exposure to natural environments
Parking


We felt that from these interests, parking-related stress seemed to be more specific than generic natural environments, and offered more stress-factors than noise pollution. The factors we could initially think of are:

- Having to leave early to make sure that finding a park won't make you late
- Having to find a park that is close enough to your destination
- Having to find a park in time for your appointment whatever it may be
- Having to fork out for a pricey park which you need at the time
- Physically having to manoeuvre the car into a tricky park/parallel park on a congested street
- Being late to move the car/moving it before the parking warden finds it
- Coming back to a parking ticket

Overall the whole process of parking has many aspects which could become a source of stress and/or anxiety in a city-dweller and offers much potential into what areas one executing our brief may be able to address.

MK

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