Leafy Plants in Classrooms – A Good Idea (7-09-08)
Adding leafy plants to junior high school classrooms is a good idea.
Adding leafy plants to junior high school classrooms is a good idea.
Closed circuit surveillance cameras may make the areas filmed more pleasant places to be.
Watch cars with lots of bumper stickers carefully.
Years ago, researchers determined that people were apt to consider individuals living in neighboring homes to be their friends.
Lighting influences how we use a space. It can be considered a building material, just as concrete and steel are building materials, although it lacks physical form.
Kate Bonsall, of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield, presented a paper at the recent annual meeting of the Division of Occupational Psychology of the British Psychological Society that cast doubt on the value of hot desking.
A recent Swedish study has found that commuting for one hour or longer every day has an influence on commuters’ levels of attachment to their towns and regions.
Walkability has a modest association to the local sense of community.
People visiting coffee shops can reap psychological benefits from their visits even if they do not actively socialize with other patrons.
In neighborhoods where there is a main street that concentrates pedestrian activity, there is a greater sense of community than in neighborhoods that do not have a main street.