Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

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One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we will have to harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience.

Taking us on a fascinating journey through probably the most world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from latest research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people’s experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies will have to use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs.

By 2050 The united states’s population is projected to increase by nearly seventy million people. This will necessitate a vast amount of new construction—almost all in urban areas—so one can dramatically turn out to be our existing landscapes, infrastructure, and urban areas. Going forward, we will have to do everything we will be able to to prevent the construction of exhausting, overstimulating environments and enervating, understimulating ones. Buildings, landscapes, and cities will have to both contain and spark associations of natural light, greenery, and other ways of being in landscapes that humans have evolved to need and expect. Fancy exteriors and dramatic forms are never enough, and would possibly not even be necessary; authentic textures and surfaces, and careful, well-executed construction details are just as important.

Erudite, wise, lucidly written, and beautifully illustrated with multiple hundred color photographs, Welcome to Your World is a crucial, eye-opening guide to the spaces we inhabit, physically and mentally, and a clarion call to design for human experience.

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