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The Environmental Design Research Association and the journal Children, Youth, and Environments invite the submission of papers.
Is there a successful recipe for creating urban open space? This book is a primer on creating spaces that encourage public use.
Adolescents (11- to 19-year-olds) have definite opinions about the design of waiting and examination rooms in physicians’ offices and provided many suggestions on how to design those offices so they are more appropriate for their age group.
When positive distractions are introduced into the work environments at long-term care facilities, workers perceive that their physical work environments have been improved.
Whether people perceive themselves as professional successes or as professional failures influences their perceptions of their physical environment and their evaluations of their workplaces.
Researchers report that employees sitting near windows spent more time during the workday actually using their computers than employees sitting in interior cubicles.
Creating workplaces with employee health in mind is resulting in worksite design changes.
Research continues to explore the link between the air we breathe at work and human health and productivity. Several studies find building-related factors to be related to air quality, while equipment, such as new computers, can also pose air-quality problems. How people feel about their work environment also affects their satisfaction with the perceived quality of ventilation.
Measures to protect pedestrian safety sometimes seem counter-intuitive. What interventions are effective, and what can we do to reconcile the difference between what is safer, and what we think is safer? Originally published in Issue 3, 2004.
More homes across the country are being built with privacy in mind.