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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.
There are three emotions that have the most significant influence on consumer loyalty to hotels/hotel chains.
Project designers are increasingly including participation by children and young adults in their design processes. Several recent publications consider this issue—particularly in the context of urban design.
Staff diversity has become an increasingly important issue in the workplace, yet many design firms lag behind. Is yours one of them?
Reduction in ambient noise—a significant environmental stressor—has recently been shown to improve workers’ image of their employers and attachment to employing companies.
Performance of creative tasks might be improved by placing leafy plants in the field of view of people who are trying to work creatively.
This insightful edition has forty-two chapters separated in five sections. Each section contains information useful to RDC readers, but the eighteen chapters in the “Sharpening Application” group are immediately applicable to people designing and managing environments.
Inner Navigation, by Erik Jonsson, helps readers understand why humans get lost, and what you, as a designer, can do to make the spaces you create easier to navigate.
The important point here is how pedestrians can be generated in an environment around a catalyst.
Individuals traversing urban areas move in as straight a line as possible—even if that route requires grade changes.