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Walking and Thinking
Walking enhances cognitive performance.
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.
Walking Speed and Green Space
Walkers travel slower if vegetation is nearby but traffic isn't.
What Makes for a Good School Playground?
How should outdoor play areas at schools be designed?
Driving Behavior and the Surrounding Environment
The roadside environment influences driver behavior.
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
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.

