Welcome to your world : how the built environment shapes our lives / Sarah Williams Goldhagen.
"Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world's best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people's experiences of the places they build are centr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world's best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people's experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiv, 347 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0061957801 9780061957802 |