Sitting Posture: What Should Designers Know?
Research on how we sit, whether with our backs straight or sprawled across a chair and ottoman, indicates that posture affects human behavior.
Research on how we sit, whether with our backs straight or sprawled across a chair and ottoman, indicates that posture affects human behavior.
This book is a well-written biography of four specific cities that boldly moves forward to share important insights, particularly those dealing with culture, about future urban environments.
Steidle and Worth investigated links between lighting levels and creative thought.
Stromberg’s intriguing article describes how concerned professionals can use the Lotka-Volterra equations, although the fundamental space use laws presented are applicable in a wide range of place types, from workplaces to urban environments.
Jerry Adler introduces quantitative urbanism to people outside of the field.
Wunderlich notes interesting similarities between how public places are used and the structure of music.
New evidence links language and altitude.
Beautiful things are often preferred, and research recently completed at Vanderbilt indicates that there may sometimes be good, biological reasons for that.
Designers don’t often focus on what it’s like to experience a space when it’s dark; but the lights are not always on and the sun is not always out.
Green building techniques are gaining acceptance.