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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (253 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000178357
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Urban Experience and DesignDDC classification:
  • 720.10299999999995
LOC classification:
  • NA2542.4 .U733 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The 21st-Century Paradigm Shift in Architecture and Planning -- Section I 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 II 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 III 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 Ecoempathic 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 -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The 21st-Century Paradigm Shift in Architecture and Planning -- Section I 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 II 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 III 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 Ecoempathic 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 -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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