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Human minds and cities are organized in a similar way. As each evolves to a more complex state, it uses similar algorithms to keep all of its components appropriately interconnected. As a press release from Rennsalear Polytechnic Institute states: “As cities and the neocortex grow in surface area, the number of connectors – highways in cities and pyramidal neurons in brains – increases more slowly, as surface area to the ¾ power. . .

Recent research at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center investigated what a children’s hospital means emotionally to patients, families, staff members and administrators. The meanings uncovered were translated into physical form as the hospital expanded.

Research by Kounios and Beeman provides additional evidence that being in a good mood can be important cognitively.

The Center for Health Design and Herman Miller have recently completed the first survey focusing on design research in healthcare settings.

Aanensen and his colleagues have developed a new mobile phone based tool for data collection and communication, to be used by in-field researchers.