This study investigates the impact of a refurbishment of two communal spaces dlobby and recreation roomd of a care home in the Netherlands on residents’ subjective well-being. The refurbishments aimed to improve the aesthetic appearance of both spaces and to offer residents more possibilities for controlled interaction. Data were collected by means of preand post-intervention interviews among a...

San Francisco is known for its small acreage and high population density. Due to its attractiveness, the city has been subjected to a housing shortage, skyrocketing real-estate rates, and a steady process of gentrification over the past 20 years in particular. Access to public spaces and deliberation, negotiation, and conflicts over the proper uses and appearance of such spaces is one aspect of...

this paper aims to analyze the effect of perception of nature in the built environment on the sociability of spaces. in this paper, quality of sociability of spaces is considered as a dependent variable which can be affected by possibility and quality of perception of nature in the built environment as independent variables. in order to make the analysis, built environment is considered as a so...

Modern people have limited opportunities to experience the natural environment due reduced outdoor activity time and are not provided with enough encounter landscape, even in indoor spaces. Due current COVID-19 pandemic, spent indoors is getting longer. As number of health-conscious increases, interest introduction plants, which help purify air improve emotional stability, has increased. This s...

While much of the ethnic and racial segregation literature concentrates on residential neighbourhoods, a growing body research demonstrates how levels inter-ethnic mixing vary between home other spaces, including workplace environments. Using alternative population bases from 2011 Census for England Wales, we explore diversity compare working-age people in (‘nighttime’), workday (‘daytime’) (‘e...

With the rapid and sudden spread of emerging Coved-19 virus, avoiding gatherings close contact with others, keeping billions people around world at home is imperative to curb mutated virus.  As that situation continues without ability determine expected time for life return pre-Covid 19, psychological pressures on human beings are increasing many suffer from an inability adapt current circumsta...

This paper reports "work in progress" on a project which I've titled, "The Spaces of Transnational Cultures". The aim of the project is to build on, but be methodologically different from, my earlier research on the architecture and urbanism of colonial and postcolonial cities in which the principal objective had been to demonstrate the inherently constitutive relationship between the political...