Risky Walking? (08-06-19)
Pedestrians’ apparent lack of awareness of their surroundings may not raise safety issues.
Pedestrians’ apparent lack of awareness of their surroundings may not raise safety issues.
Lymeus, Lindberg, and Hartig assessed mindfulness training in different environments.
Schertz and Berman reviewed published studies exploring the cognitive repercussions of being exposed to nature.
Why do we value handmade objects, even when “perfect” machine made options are available?
Zuniga-Teran lead a team which determined that parks are used more when the routes potential users would take to them are more walkable.
Astell-Burt and Feng linked the mental and physical health of city-dwelling people over 45 years old to the extensiveness of the tree canopies and the amount of grass near their homes.
Mastandrea, Wagoner, and Hogg looked at links between where people live and art preferences.
Melissa Piatkowski, Addie Abushousheh, and Ellen Taylor have written the whitepaper “Healthcare at Home,” which is available to all at the Center for Health Design website indicated below.
Our attitudes towards nature evolve over our lives.
Video links to the 2018 and 2019 sessions of the Architecture-For-Health lecture series, hosted by Texas A &M University, are now available.