Vastu—Trendy Replacement for Feng Shui?
Vastu—a 4,000-year-old design philosophy of harmonious design from India—is beginning to attract enough attention in the popular press to replace feng shui as the folk design concept du jour.
Vastu—a 4,000-year-old design philosophy of harmonious design from India—is beginning to attract enough attention in the popular press to replace feng shui as the folk design concept du jour.
Neal Kumar Katyal of the Georgetown University Law Center breaks that mind-set and reviews in detail several effective design strategies to reduce crime.
Humans routinely modify the land around them, often leading to ecological and social consequences—consequences that can affect the landscape’s character. This is the second of a two-part article that examines some current research on how landscape preferences can support actions to preserve an area’s ecology and character.
One of the feature articles in our last issue (October 2002, p. 1) covered two studies on walking behavior and neighborhood aesthetics. Three more studies also conclude that neighborhood design affects who walks, and how often then walk.
With this issue we have again found articles pertinent to design “buried” in journals few designers read, such as the Yale Law Journal, the American Journal of Public Health and the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly. We’re pleased to be able to provide you this useful information.