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Being exposed to bright light at specific points during the day increases the length of time that people with dementia remain asleep at night.
Designers’ focus on creating experiences for users is relatively new.
As the push for new ideas grows in every segment of society, there is increasing pressure for people to be creative during the work day. Generating new ideas is never easy, so it is important that physical environment support creative work.
More people than ever are turning to the country’s national forests for recreation, and they’re bumping into each other—philosophically, if not literally.
Regular visitors inaccurately estimate urban forest crowding.
Sound can be used to define spaces at a room, building, or city level, with soundscapes affecting patterns of social association, physical movement and interaction.
Walkability has a modest association to the local sense of community.
People using Global Positioning System (GPS) mobile navigation systems walk through a space differently than people using maps or direct-experience to guide their travels.
A number of factors make a neighborhood seem disordered; the ones that are physical will be discussed here.
Kelly and Hosking used a case study of a seaside Australian town to explore the relationship between owners of second-homes and the communities in which those second homes are located.