by Michael W. Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros Originally published in Metropolis 29, November 2011 In 1984, the environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich made a startling discovery. In studying hospital patients recovering from surgery, he found that one factor alone accounted for significant differences in post-operative complications, recovery times, and need for painkillers. It was the […] read more
by Marco Casagrande The current massive urban immigration movement in China, brings people from every areas of the country to the megalomaniac cities, that all are the same. These farmers’ hands are constructing the new anonymous cities. The same hands that know the rural Local Knowledge through physical labor and passing of traditions through generations, are […] read more
JBU Volume II (1&2/2013) Eleni Tracada, Editor in Chief On spatial structure and the 2013 International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) Summer School in Neuroergonomics and Urban Planning read more