Designing Health Care Facilities: Preventing Disease
Gary Noskin and Lance Peterson examine how infectious diseases are controlled in today's hospitals.
Gary Noskin and Lance Peterson examine how infectious diseases are controlled in today's hospitals.
Sung and colleagues have documented the value of Jane Jacobs' work.
Plaza design must support humans' fundamental psychological needs
The designed and social environments (and the relationships between them) that effect mental and physical wellbeing in neighborhoods and among neighbors are carefully explored by Brower.
Synthesized the science/evidence-based research on landscapes that improve wellbeing.
Want to create more dialogue? Put people eye-to-eye.
This second part of a two-part article covers behavioral economics and neuroeconomics concepts that can assist designers and planners with stakeholder selection of optimal alternatives, stakeholder acceptance of mitigation measures, understanding large scale proposals, and improving long term decision making. This article was originally published in 2011.
Designers and planners increasingly work on complicated, multi-stakeholder projects. Behavioral economics, a sub-discipline of economics that focuses on how people actually behave (as opposed to the prevailing “rational actor” economic theories that propose how people should behave), provides insights and approaches to help designers and planners better understand stakeholders’ perspectives and achieve successful outcomes. This articlee was originally published in 2011.
Tali Hatuka, an architect who leads the Tel Aviv University Laboratory of Contemporary Urban Design, recently discussed aspects of public spaces that increase the likelihood of effective protests and productive civil participation.
New research tools and techniques are enhancing design research.