Designing for Activity
An unexpected source produces a comprehensive guide to designing spaces that encourage physical activity.
An unexpected source produces a comprehensive guide to designing spaces that encourage physical activity.
The UK’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) is making available free, at the website listed below, a guide to designing streets that are hospitable for people with poor vision.
As healthcare costs rise, employers and society in general are looking for ways to encourage healthier behavior.
The Cost-Effective Open-Plan Environments (COPE) project has been an important source of information to workplace designers.
Susan Rodiek and her colleagues have developed an extraordinarily valuable tool for people creating outdoor spaces for the elderly.
The author summarizes much of the most important environmental psychology research related to the design of learning spaces, and her 2004 e-book remains valuable.
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has created a valuable resource for designers of primary schools.
As Christopher Hawthorne recently described in the Los Angeles Times (January, 24, 2010), large digital screens in public spaces significantly change the experience of being in those built environments.
Want to know how walkable an area is?
This book is about how the fashion, financial, telecommunications, and automotive industries are using architectural design worldwide to communicate their brands.