We’re thrilled to announce the publication of the Handbook of Neuroscience and the Built Environment this month:

Edited by Board Members of theHapi.org, the Handbook reflects our game-changing times in the 21st-century, where new understandings in the life sciences, prove transformative for design fields, including architecture, planning and interior design, helping us appreciate what people need to see and be in to be at their best!

Compiling 31 Chapters by 51 authors on four continents, the Handbook provides a new foundation for architects, academics and the public at large to understand the human experience of place, revealing how our experience begins subliminally and reflects our evolution.

With Introductions by Susan Magsamen of the International Arts + Mind Lab and Micheal Mehaffy, of the Sustasis Foundation, the Handbook presents six sections, with chapters delving into human perception, our need for social connection, discussions of how color, shape and form impact our behavior, as well as how biometric tools, including eye-tracking and AI tools, provide a new lens to ‘see’ both architecture and ourselves.

The 2025 discount code for the new Handbook, noted in flyer below, is: 25EFLY3*

Feel free to share the flyer. For a free PDF of the Handbook’s first 80-pages, including the Table of Contents, Introduction and first three Chapters, click on the PREVIEW BOOK button in the link below:

https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Neuroscience-and-the-Built-Environment/Lavdas-Sussman-Woodworth/p/book/9781032744216

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