The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) is presenting a symposium on the role and effects of lighting on human behavior to be held in Cleveland, Ohio USA on April 6-8, 2014. PROGRAM This international lighting research and application symposium will draw on the talents and expertise of both the researcher and the […]
Mobility, Mood and Place: a user-centred approach to design of built environments to make mobility easy, enjoyable and meaningful for older people, is an innovative, multidisciplinary, UK Research Council funded project, led by ESALA and OPENspace research centre, University of Edinburgh. We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher to undertake aspects of Work Package […]
The IAPS Board is happy to announce the call for abstracts of the 23rd IAPS International Conference “Transitions to sustainable societies: Designing research and policy for changing lifestyles and communities” which will take place in Timisoara, Romania (23 – 27) June 2014. The deadline for for abstract submission is 25 November 2013. Contributions are expected to present […]
The International Association of Applied Psychology invites psychologists, health care professionals, academics and researchers from all fields of applications and backgrounds to submit symposia to of the 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology. The deadline for abstract submission is 1st December 2013. The main congress theme is From Crisis to Sustainable Well-Being. Today, the crisis, which […]
This public lecture was given by Jan Gehl at the Strelka Institute in Moscow on the 15th of July 2013. It is a more detailed version of the presentation for the study of Moscow that we published earlier.
The Center for Active Design is building its reference collection of innovative projects that use the design of the built environment to promote health. Accepted projects will be featured among our case studies, and may be tapped for future conferences, publications, and exhibitions. Submitted projects should exemplify the strategies found in the Active Design Guidelines, and […]
An interesting service that allows to compare a few famous cities (London, Paris, Delhi, Tokyo etc.) by different parameters like Housing Density, Population Density, Traffic and others you can find on Urban Observatory. It is a comparison of housing density for Abu Dhabi, Delhi and Paris.