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Comparing workplace effects
Comparing workplace effects
Upping activity levels
Koreny and teammates evaluated how urban design influences the activity levels of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Marquet and colleagues link area walkability and greenness to the activity levels of users.
Koohsari and colleagues studied how worker perceptions of workplace layouts influence how active they are during the day.
What neighborhoods can kids and their parents benefit from being in? Hunter and colleagues set out to answer this question.
Research by Wali and teammates confirms that walkability boosts health.
Asano and colleagues learned that walking in hot outdoor environments can harm subsequent cognitive performance indoors; this finding supports creating more temperature controlled indoor walking areas in office complexes and similar locations.
Hunter and colleagues studied how neighborhood design influences resident actions.
What sorts of design features encourage people to go outdoors and walk around their neighborhoods, towns and cities? Neuroscience research supplies answers to that question while also making it clear that walking can help us think more clearly, creatively, and productively, all as we burn calories.