Home Field Advantage: It’s Real

Humans need territories.
Humans need territories.
People with ASD or ADHD live better lives when places and objects they use are designed to reflect how they experience their physical world.
What personal factors affect our experience of nature?
Being reminded of fast food, for example, by seeing related signs/packages or walking by fast food restaurants, affects non-food experiences.
Light can replace architecture.
Marzoli, Custodero, and Pagliara have identified an important reason to use shades, etc., to cut indoor glare produced by sunlight.
Lighting levels influence our thought processes.
Effective floor plans share certain features.
Reminders of the passage of time cause us to think differently.
The designed and social environments (and the relationships between them) that effect mental and physical wellbeing in neighborhoods and among neighbors are carefully explored by Brower.