“As more of us flock
to urban living, city designers are re-thinking buildings’ influence on our
moods in an era of “neuro-architecture”.
By: Michael Bond
Published: BBC, 6
June 2017, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170605-the-psychology-behind-your-citys-design
Level of Difficulty: **
BEFORE YOU READ
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Watch: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/being-in-nature-changes-your-brain-and-makes-you-kinder/66339
. How do you feel?
QUESTIONS
1.
Read through the following brief
article highlighting the findings of Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg. A major difference was observed between urban
and rural dwellers in terms of …. Would
Lindberg have agreed with Churchill’s statement or not?
2.
The writer says “That could change”.
What could happen?
3.
What makes Ruth Dalton’s specialty
interesting?
4.
Watch the following video: http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/. The
architectural reason for the many problems in this housing estate was………….The
reason why this feature didn’t work was that…
5.
Problems such as the above could be
avoided if there was……;a view that Alison Brooks also agrees with.
6.
Listen to the following brief statement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_HGgT--AGs
. What general conclusion can be drawn concerning these housing estates?
7.
The main advantage of using technology to get
more information about how people react to urban settings is…
8.
How would one be affected by the following:
10. Study these pics of Vancouver. The city has been
designed in this way because:
11.
What conclusion can be drawn from the Iceland
experiment and the VR study published this year?
12.
Watch and listen: https://www.sharecare.com/video/healthmakers/jeffrey-lieberman/what-are-risk-factors-for-schizophrenia
What aspect of city living increases the risk of developing this illness?
13.
What were Whyte and Snohetta trying to achieve
with their designs ?
14.
Look at the picture of Times
Square. What characteristic problem of life in urban settings was Snohetta
trying to remedy?
15.
Look at the plans of these two ancient cities
(Rome and London). Which would make people unhappier? Why?
16.
Read the quote from a visitor to the Seattle
Central library. Why did she feel so anxious to leave?
17.
Why are desire lines described as a form of mass
rebellion?
WRITING TASK
Use the information you have acquired to write about the
effects of urban design.
THE HIDDEN WAYS ARCHITECTURE
AFFECTS HOW WE FEEL
Urban design and the
way it affects individuals and their relationships is a very new area of
research that people may not have thought about much. This text may serve to
enlighten them.
1. Their
response to stress
2. Urban
architects could pay attention to the possible cognitive effects of their
creations on a city’s inhabitants
3.
She studies both architecture and
cognitive science
4.
The wide open spaces between the blocks;
It discouraged a sense of community
5.
Greater interaction across disciplines OR
Greater/ more / better behavioral insight
6.
They had been designed for you not to
succeed
7.
This adds a layer of information that is
otherwise difficult to get at
8.
Negatively: the first two; Positively:
the second
9.
They are blank cold spaces that
effectively bleach street edges of conviviality
10.
Green spaces are restorative and they
improve health
11.
The visual complexity of the natural
environment acts as a kind of mental balm
12.
The lack of social bonding and cohesion
in neighborhoods
13.
To nudge people closer together and make
it more likely they would talk to each other
14.
Living among millions of strangers
15.
The second (Ancient London); People
would constantly feel disoriented
16.
She could go from A to B via one route
and was forced to take a different route from B to A (If you said from the
entrance into the library and from there back to the entrance, you can pat
yourself on the back)
17.
Because they mark people’s preferred
paths across the city
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