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

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

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Bibliographic Details
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
Subject:	Architecture -- Human factors. Architecture -- Psychological aspects. Architectural design -- Psychological aspects. Environmental psychology. Architecture and science. Architectural design -- Psychological aspects. Architecture and science. Architecture -- Human factors. Architecture -- Psychological aspects. Environmental psychology.
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

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: The Next Environmental Revolution
Chapter 1. The Sorry Places We Live
Chapter 2. Blindsight: Experiencing the Built Environment
Chapter 3. The Bodily Basis of Cognition
Chapter 4. Bodies Situated in Natural Worlds
Chapter 5. People Embedded in Social Worlds
Chapter 6. Designing for Humans
Chapter 7. From Blindsight to Insight: Enriching Environments, Improving Lives
Acknowledgements
Image Credits
Notes
Index