Healing Through Natural Spaces (09-28-11)
Morgan reviews the research supporting therapeutic uses of nature and discusses several recent projects that have put the resulting scientific findings to good use.
Morgan reviews the research supporting therapeutic uses of nature and discusses several recent projects that have put the resulting scientific findings to good use.
How can we create cities that make us healthy and happy? Researchers are answering that question with unique studies, from how trees affect pregnancy outcomes to the importance of designing cities for young people.
When assessing neighborhoods, maintenance is a key factor.
Badger reviews research related to the planning of suburban communities, and shares that information with readers outside the design world.
Hekler and his colleagues have studied the utilitarian and leisure walking of a set of people between 56 and 72 years old.
Frances (Ming) Kuo and Andrea Faber Taylor at the University of Illinois continue their research on the beneficial effects of time in nature for children with ADD and ADHD.
MIT has just made available, free of charge, a useful tool for designers.
People underestimate the pleasure that they experience in nature, which has implications for the development of sustainability initiatives.
Creative entrepreneurs are the rock stars, sometimes literally, of our creative economy.
A team of researchers affiliated with the MIT Media Lab and the Macro Connections group are using modern tools to investigate thoughts generated by urban spaces.