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Aiming for a Happy-2025 Holiday? Pick up the HAPI-Course Bundled!
Just in time for the Holidays, we’re again offering a package deal on the HAPI Certification course, all 7-classes bundled for $99! What is it? Seven half-hour presentations bridging the arts + sciences, revealing how biology and psychology shape our experience … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, biometrics, City Planning, Health, Neuroscience, Walkability
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The Public Realm: What Cars Took Away + Never Gave Back
Where would you rather be? The main street above or the one below? We’d guess you’ll pick the one most at top, even though these images show the very same street — photographed about 100 years apart! It’s Commonwealth Avenue … Continue reading
Posted in City Planning, Design, People-centric Design, Walkability
Tagged Cars, Green Spaces, Health, Indoor-Outdoor, Public Space, Traffic, Walkability
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A Trip to Tahoe: Walking the California/Nevada Divide
When I asked the concierge for directions to cafes and shops, he told me to walk three blocks to the traffic lights, then turn right to California or left to Nevada. “You’ll see the difference,” he said. Indeed. Little did … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, City Planning, Health, People-centric Design, Walkability
Tagged safety, Walkability
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Planning for People
“First life, then spaces, then buildings–the other way around never works.” Jan Gehl While Boston celebrated the start of the American Revolution on Patriot’s Day this week, the city of Somerville, two miles west, started a different kind of rebellion … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, City Planning, Design, Health, People-centric Design
Tagged City Planning, Design, People-centric Design, Walkability
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People Need Green Space
In 1970, Joni Mitchell sang “they paved paradise to put up a parking lot” to decry the lack of green space in the built environment. Since then, architects, planners and builders have expanded parking lots, widened highways and removed green … Continue reading
The Genetics of Design 