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“Environmental Psychology”

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 [...]

Feb
20
2010

Mood Tune Your Living Space With The Sound Of Water


  The sound of a water fountain is a great stress-reliever. The mere sight of water elevates mood instantaneously in the vast majority of us. Yet, very few of us live on the water, or have a fountain either outside or within our homes.   For most of us, a large indoor or outdoor residential fountain just isn’t practical.  But [...]