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For most buyers, their image of home includes its neighborhood. Several new studies investigate homeowner preferences for traditional or neotraditonal neighborhoods, suburban-style neighborhoods, and open space conservation neighborhoods to determine factors that affect home preference and price.
In this issue, we present diverse research findings, yet one underlying theme for the issue is how good design increases wellbeing.
Linda Groat and David Wang have produced a definitive guide for learning more about built environments and people’s experience in them.
A new review has combed the available research literature to collect information relevant to the design of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
A classic article on the environmental effects of noise found that noise levels typical of open offices increases stress.
Researchers have been investigating event-places, "which make powerful linkages between physical and social phenomena."
Researchers have determined that there is a positive relationship between duration of time in a park and lower systolic blood pressure, as well as a relationship between being in a park with another person and how healthy the person in the park perceives himself or herself to be.
A new study has quantified reductions in worker performance related to cooler temperatures in a workspace.
The two sets of items presented in the included lists approach the issue of quality of design and building from two different and diametrically opposed positions: the "Top 10 Problems in Building Performance" represent the cumulative experience of the author over a period of 40 years, while "The Seven Principles of Universal Design" resulted from the deliberations by members of the Center for Universal Design.
There is a great obstacle for children of all abilities reaching their objective of engaged play. It is an element within the playground under the exclusive control of adults – surfacing!