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Place Advantage

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Landscape Architecture

Neighborhood Satisfaction

A recent study makes a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between neighborhood satisfaction, naturalness, and openness, while another looks at sustainable neighborhood design.

Camping and Hiking

Recent research to assist in designing camping sites and hiking trails.

Terrorism Awareness & CPTED — Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

It is necessary to consider the safety and security of facility users under abnormal, as well as normal, conditions and for design or management staff to examine their facility plans for both potential trouble spots and characteristics that facilitate help when problems do arise.

Plants: Increasing Health and Well-Being

Tove Fjeld  and his associates looked at how plants affected the health of office workers, while Larissa Larsen and her associates examined how indoor plants affected students in an office setting.

Truck Driver Design

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Unloading trucks obstruct an alley where the associated building has no loading dock.

Understanding and accommodating user needs is a sound design maxim. Researchers interviewed Seattle truck drivers to obtain their views on the design of commercial urban and suburban buildings.

Neighborhood Aesthetics and Walking Behavior

Two studies examine how neighborhood and streetscape preferences affect pedestrian behavior. One study investigates how environmental aesthetics and neighborhood design affect walking for exercise, and the other examines visitor path-choice at urban intersections.