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3 Obras 294 Miembros 22 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

Colin Ellard, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities laboratory, is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get lost in the Mall. His work at the intersection of neuroscience and architectural and environmental mostrar más design has been widely published in International journals and he regularly conducts his field research by leading urban walking tours and putting his data on display, often in museum settings, around the globe. mostrar menos

Obras de Colin Ellard

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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Ellard, Colin
Fecha de nacimiento
1958
Género
male
Nacionalidad
UK (birth)
Canada (passport)
Lugares de residencia
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Educación
University of Western Ontario
Agente
Denise Bukowski

Miembros

Reseñas

Квартирный вопрос может испортить людей не только морально, как говорил Воланд, но и психологически, что интуитивно понимают покупатели жилья, жаждущие потолков повыше. Среда нашего городского обитания простирается за пределы квартиры, но и там нас поджидают модификаторы настроения и самочувствия. Так, мимо безликих стерильных зданий мы стремимся пройти побыстрее, а тем, кому из окна больницы видны деревья и трава, требуется меньше времени для выздоровления. Колин Эдвард рассказывает, как архитектура воздействует на многие аспекты нашего поведения и как это позволяет объяснить и даже предсказать поведение людей в хаосе повседневной жизни.… (más)
 
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Den85 | 14 reseñas más. | Jan 3, 2024 |
3.5 stars

In this book, the author, a psychologist with a particular interest in navigation, explores why humans are so bad at finding their way. In the first section of the book, he compares us to various animals: birds, ants, bees, wasps, sea turtles, and more. In the second section, he looks at places/spaces like our houses, workplaces, cities, cyberspace and green spaces.

This was interesting. There were a few places where I tuned out a bit (during some of the scientific explanations mostly, but not all), but mostly I found it interesting. It’s no surprise that most animals are much better at navigation (for various reasons) than humans are. This was published in 2009, so the cyberspace chapter may be a bit outdated already.… (más)
½
 
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LibraryCin | 6 reseñas más. | Feb 18, 2020 |
Sadly it turns out "psychogeography" is not interesting to me. I'm sure this book would be of more interest to other readers. Note it is more academic (more dense, more footnoted) than advertised.
 
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sparemethecensor | 14 reseñas más. | Apr 3, 2019 |
Kind of two books in one, the first looking at how various animals find their way around & mostly we don't, and then the second looking at human relationships with the spaces around us. 3-1/2 stars
 
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Siubhan | 6 reseñas más. | Feb 28, 2018 |

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Obras
3
Miembros
294
Popularidad
#79,674
Valoración
½ 3.3
Reseñas
22
ISBNs
13
Idiomas
3

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