Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity
Health-related behaviors, like many others, can be influenced by the physical environment. This book’s aim is to elucidate the connection.
Health-related behaviors, like many others, can be influenced by the physical environment. This book’s aim is to elucidate the connection.
What influence does urban design have on human health at the scale of individual buildings and surroundings, neighborhoods, and towns and regions? Laura Jackson (National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, EPA) surveyed the literature.
A recent survey of new and used home buyers sponsored by Builder and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard revealed reasons why new-home purchasers bought new or used homes.
The popular press is devoting a lot of attention to the possible dangers of mold, which is keeping the issue top-of-mind with individuals and firms.
McCoy and Evans have determined that environments in which individuals are creative share certain features.
The physical features of the indoor work environment are closely linked to human behaviors such as creativity, teamwork, and leadership.
Lab designers are now fully incorporating research-backed workplace design principles that have been used successfully in office spaces into the high-science/high-tech environments they are creating.
The North Carolina State Building Commission has now been authorized, to establish POE rules for various bodies within the responsibility of the State Construction Office. This is believed to be the first POE requirement at the state level.
Hypersonic Sound Systems (HSS) can focus sound into a very specific location.
Playing classical music in a restaurant increases diner spending.