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This book describes why it is important for gardens to be well designed, but also effectively details the process of creating compelling natural urban landscapes.
This book is about how the fashion, financial, telecommunications, and automotive industries are using architectural design worldwide to communicate their brands.
Several recent articles have probed the importance of integrating nature into academic design.
Evidence from two recent studies support the view that trees and grass around public housing sites can reduce some aggression and deter crime. Originally published in Issue 1, 2002.
Leaders at one urban elementary school turned to researcher Lorraine Maxwell to discover what features influenced the school’s aura of hospitality.
Gary Noskin and Lance Peterson examine how infectious diseases are controlled in today's hospitals.
Advocates of full-spectrum fluorescent lights (FSFL) believe that these lights offer unique advantages over cool-white fluorescent lights (CWFL). Researchers Jennifer Veitch and Shelly McColl have investigated these claims by reviewing research conducted from 1941–1999.
Fax machines, computers, scanners, and printers are all necessary for the way we work today. Unfortunately, such equipment also adds to indoor air pollution—in some cases quite significantly.
Examining previous studies, researcher William Fisk looked at the connection between air quality and the spread of respiratory illness, cases of allergies and asthma, and sick building syndrome.
Steve Garner studied the difference in sketching use for two sets of design teams, one in the same room with regular graphic media, and one paired by voice and electronic drawing tablet.