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 must harness this knowledge to
construct a world better suited to human experience Taking us on a
fascinating journey through some of the world's best and worst
landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen
draws from recent 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 must 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 America'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--that will dramatically
transform our existing landscapes, infrastructure, and urban areas.
Going forward, we must do everything we can to prevent the
construction of exhausting, overstimulating environments and
enervating, understimulating ones. Buildings, landscapes, and
cities must 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 may 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 more than one hundred color photographs, Welcome
to Your World is a vital, eye-opening guide to the spaces we
inhabit, physically and mentally, and a clarion call to design for
human experience.
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