Benefits of Urban Nature
Evidence continues to accumulate linking experiences in nature with human well-being at a fundamental level.
Evidence continues to accumulate linking experiences in nature with human well-being at a fundamental level.
Bargh and Shalev have collected additional evidence linking our physical and social states.
Lederbogen and his colleagues investigated the influence of growing up in a city on the experience of social stress.
Kralik, Khan, Levin, and Dobson analyzed the behavior of male rhesus macaques monkeys when they could see the color red.
Eric Heyman investigated environments in which people and birds thrive.
Alexander Garvin is an urban planner with a deep understanding of what makes parks viable. In the final chapter of his 2011 book, Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities, he clearly presents the six types of sustainability that he believes explain the continued success of Central Park in New York City.
O’Connor investigated the influence of façade color on experience of a streetscape, particularly building size and its congruity with its context.
New research by Stapel and Lindenberg provides additional evidence that the condition of a physical environment has societal implications.
The chemicals and structures in our brains are closely linked to our personality.
Geary thoroughly explores how “our experience is molded by metaphor.”