2008 - Issue 1

Klingmann comprehensively addresses the evolution of branded spaces and provides guidance to designers.

Cul-de-sac neighborhoods increase play opportunities for younger children, while older children benefit from neighborhoods with grid layouts.

Our Research Design Connections blog is updated five times a week.

Regular visitors inaccurately estimate urban forest crowding.

Two recent sources review research that details how natural forms and images can enhance human functioning and reduce stress, and make appeals for architecture informed by that research. 

As the push for new ideas grows in every segment of society, there is increasing pressure for people to be creative during the work day.  Generating new ideas is never easy, so it is important that physical environment support creative work.

Being exposed to bright light at specific points during the day increases the length of time that people with dementia remain asleep at night.

Well-intentioned citizens without any formal training in planning are responsible for thousands of land-use decisions every year.

More people than ever are turning to the country’s national forests for recreation, and they’re bumping into each other—philosophically, if not literally.

Sound can be used to define spaces at a room, building, or city level, with soundscapes affecting patterns of social association, physical movement and interaction.