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Environmental Psychology

Mar
22
2010

Geolo Capital’s John Pritzker has a Brilliant New Vision for Carmel Valley Ranch Resort


 . . . this place is magical                                                   - John Pritzker     Over the course of a perfect summer day last year, the transcendent beauty of Carmel Valley Ranch Resort  became the creative inspiration for John Pritzker’s all-together-different resort concept.  If nature can seduce a man straight through to his heart, then seduce it did.  For at  some point during his potential [...]

Mar
3
2010

Optimizing The Built Environment For Our Well-being


  Judith Heerwagen of  J.H. Heerwagen & Associates, Inc.,  in writing the Psychosocial Value of Space, has created an insightful and must-read analysis how to optimize the built environment’s design to positively affect our well-being. The article gives one pause for thought about the portents of our central planners’ mandate to develop high-density, souless communities close to rail and [...]