Braçe and colleagues focus on one of the smallest but most persistent interfaces between dwelling and city: the view from home. Using survey data from Carmona, Spain, they find that adults reporting a green-space view from their residence show lower risk of anxiety and depression after considering sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle and frequency of green-space visits. The paper’s conceptual importance lies in separating indirect visual exposure from physical presence. Contact with a supportive environment can therefore occur through an architectural aperture and accumulate over long periods without requiring deliberate travel or recreational use. Methodologically, the study combines a simple spatial-perceptual variable with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, making visual access an analysable component of residential health. Its wider bridge is architectural: orientation, façade, section, planting and visual corridors participate in psychological exposure. The home is consequently not isolated from neighbourhood ecology; it continuously edits and frames the environmental field through what can be seen from within.
