Urban Experience and Design: Contemporary Perspectives on Improving the Public Realm

Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based foundation for architecture and planning. Aiming to promote the creation of a healthier and happier p...

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1. Verfasser: Hollander, Justin B. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2020
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Zusammenfassung:Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based foundation for architecture and planning. Aiming to promote the creation of a healthier and happier public realm, this book describes how unconscious responses to stimuli, outside our conscious awareness, direct our experience of the built environment and govern human behavior in our surroundings.This collection contains 15 chapters, including contributions from researchers in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, France and Iran. Addressing topics such as the impact of eye-tracking analysis and seeing beauty and empathy within buildings, Urban Experience and Design encourages us to reframe our understanding of design, including the narrative of how modern architecture and planning came to be in the first place. This volume invites students, academics and scholars to see how cognitive science and biometric findings give us remarkable 21st-century metrics for evaluating and improving designs, even before they are built
Beschreibung:90 b/w images, 4 tables and 15 line drawings
Introduction: The 21st-Century Paradigm Shift in Architecture and Planning Section 1: Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Architecture and Planning 1 Sense of Place: Looking Backward to Go Forward? 2 Classic Planning: The Power of Beauty for Human Architecture and Planning 3 Bonding with Beauty: The Connection Between Facial Patterns, Design and Our Well-Being 4 Neuroscience Experiments to Verify the Geometry of Healing Environments: Proposing a Biophilic Healing Index of Design and Architecture Section 2: Twenty-First-Century Tools: Biometrics and Measuring the Human Experience of Place 5 Identifying Biophilic Design Elements in Streetscapes: A Study of Visual Attention and Sense of Place 6 Exploring Eye-Tracking Technology: Assessing How the Design of Densified Built Environments Can Promote Inhabitants' Well-Being 7 Attention and Focus in the Perception of Persian Architecture Section 3 Explorations of the New Paradigm for Urban Experience and Design 8 Cognitive Mapping, Mobility Technologies and the Decoupling of Imageability and Accessibility 9 Emerging Transport Futures for Streets and How Eye Tracking Can Help Improve Safety and Design 10 Ecoempathetic Design: Moving Beyond Biophilia With Brain Science 11 Exploring Urban Form Through OpenStreetMap Data: A Visual Introduction 12 A Device-Free Mapping Approach for Quantifying User Activities in Indoor Environments 13 Being Seen, Feeling Heard: Designing Intimate-Scaled Spaces on Urban College Campuses Conclusion: Understanding Ourselves Better Reframes Architecture and Planning
Beschreibung:252 Seiten 470 gr
ISBN:9780367435554