Urban experience and design : contemporary perspectives on improving the public realm / edited by Justin B. Hollander and Ann Sussman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The 21st-Century Paradigm Shift in Architecture and Planning Justin B. Hollander and Ann SussmanSection 1: Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Architecture and Planning 1 Sense of Place: Looking Backward to Go Forward? Robert S. Tullis2 Classic Planning: The Power of Beauty for Human Architecture and Planning Nir Buras3 Bonding with Beauty: The Connection Between Facial Patterns, Design and Our Well-Being Donald H. Ruggles and John Boak4 Neuroscience Experiments to Verify the Geometry of Healing Environments: Proposing a Biophilic Healing Index of Design and ArchitectureNikos A. SalingarosSection 2: Twenty-First-Century Tools: Biometrics and Measuring the Human Experience of Place 5 Identifying Biophilic Design Elements in Streetscapes: A Study of Visual Attention and Sense of Place Peter Milliken, Justin B. Hollander, Ann Sussman and Minyu Situ6 Exploring Eye-Tracking Technology: Assessing How the Design of Densified Built Environments Can Promote Inhabitants' Well-Being Frank Suurenbroek and Gideon Spanjar7 Attention and Focus in the Perception of Persian Architecture Saeid Khaghani, Jamal Esmaeilzadeh Vafaei and Seyed Behnamedin JameieSection 3 Explorations of the New Paradigm for Urban Experience and Design 8 Cognitive Mapping, Mobility Technologies and the Decoupling of Imageability and Accessibility Andrew Mondschein9 Emerging Transport Futures for Streets and How Eye Tracking Can Help Improve Safety and Design Kevin J. Krizek, Bert Otten and Federico Rupi10 Ecoempathetic Design: Moving Beyond Biophilia With Brain Science Misha Semenov11 Exploring Urban Form Through OpenStreetMap Data: A Visual Introduction Geoff Boeing12 A Device-Free Mapping Approach for Quantifying User Activities in Indoor Environments Krister Jens13 Being Seen, Feeling Heard: Designing Intimate-Scaled Spaces on Urban College Campuses Verna DeLauerConclusion: Understanding Ourselves Better Reframes Architecture and Planning Ann Sussman and Justin B. Hollander

"Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based foundation for architecture and planning. Aiming to promote the creation of a healthier and happier public realm, this book describes how unconscious processing, outside our conscious awareness, directs our experience of the built environment and governs human behavior in our surroundings. This collection contains fifteen cutting-edge chapters, including contributions from researchers in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, France, and Iran. Addressing topics such as the impact of eye-tracking analysis and seeing beauty and empathy within buildings, Urban Experience and Design encourages us to reframe our understanding of design including the narrative of how modern architecture and planning came to be in the first place. This volume invites students, academics, and scholars to see how cognitive science and biometric findings give us remarkable 21st-century metrics for evaluating and improving designs, even before they are built"--