Feeling Secure and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
To live their best lives, people must feel—and be—physically safe. Design can make both perceived and actual security more likely.
To live their best lives, people must feel—and be—physically safe. Design can make both perceived and actual security more likely.
Toronto's waterfront is familiar enough to be comfortable, but isn't so predictable that it's a boring place to be.
Design affects interpersonal bonds between professional colleagues of relatively equal rank and also employee ties to their managers--and those links influence personal and organizational wellbeing.
Sharing living spaces in cohousing arrangements is becoming increasingly popular. By gently tweaking the essential elements of a home into new configurations, design can support and enhance these special types of residences.
Designing to encourage bicycle riding is in many ways similar to enhancing walkability, with several notable differences.
The American Psychological Association (APA) met from August 6 to 9 in Toronto. Research presented in several sessions is immediately applicable.
Street seats, places to sit bordering roads and sidewalks, make cities more pleasant places to be, physically and psychologically.
Signs tell us what we should do and how we should do it. Sometimes the messages that we “read” from them are consistent with the objectives of the people who’ve designed the signs and other times they’re not. What distinguishes effective signs from ineffective ones?
Investigators have learned a great deal about the optimal design of workplaces in homes, co-working sites--and corporate centers.
Color choices have practical implications. Research by cognitive scientists on both surface colors and colors of light should inform designers' decisions.