Welcome to your world : how the built environment shapes our lives /

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Author / Creator:Goldhagen, Sarah Williams, author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
©2017
Description:xxxiv, 347 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11037930
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ISBN:0061957801
9780061957802
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.
Summary:"Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world's best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people's experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs."--Amazon.com