--- product_id: 41167410 title: "Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives" price: "¥2135" currency: JPY in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/41167410-welcome-to-your-world-how-the-built-environment-shapes-our store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives **Price:** ¥2135 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives - **How much does it cost?** ¥2135 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/41167410-welcome-to-your-world-how-the-built-environment-shapes-our) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people’s experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs. By 2050 America’s population is projected to increase by nearly seventy million people. This will necessitate a vast amount of new construction—almost all in urban areas—that will dramatically transform our existing landscapes, infrastructure, and urban areas. Going forward, we must do everything we can to prevent the construction of exhausting, overstimulating environments and enervating, understimulating ones. Buildings, landscapes, and cities must both contain and spark associations of natural light, greenery, and other ways of being in landscapes that humans have evolved to need and expect. Fancy exteriors and dramatic forms are never enough, and may not even be necessary; authentic textures and surfaces, and careful, well-executed construction details are just as important. Erudite, wise, lucidly written, and beautifully illustrated with more than one hundred color photographs, Welcome to Your World is a vital, eye-opening guide to the spaces we inhabit, physically and mentally, and a clarion call to design for human experience. Review: This brilliant book opened my eyes to the world around me ... - This brilliant book opened my eyes to the world around me and helped me see my environment in new ways. Goldhagen is advocating for better design, design that is more human-centric and connects us to nature. She's a former professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design and a well-known architecture critic, and she has spent her entire life trying to understand the process by which the built environment affects us emotionally and psychologically. Here she is writing for a general audience, and sharing what she has learned during a lifetime of interdisciplinary exploration with people like me, who do not have a background in art or design or architecture, but who are curious to learn about how our surroundings affect our lives. Imagine the treat of being able to go on a tour of the world with a guide who is so smart, insightful, entertaining, witty, deeply informed, and passionate about her subject. For what it's worth, this is also a beautifully produced book with gorgeous illustrations. It's a book I will save and treasure, and go back to again and again. I wish I could give it more stars. Review: A breakthrough in architectural theory! - A real breakthrough in architectural theory, Sarah Williams Goldhagen has brought to light and articulated clearly what many of us may know by intuition: Design matters and it affects peoples' well-being and lives well beyond the attention it is given. This book is written in a very accessible manner and leads the reader through with ease and with just the right amount of supporting evidence, making it quite seamless. A fantastic book that connects Art and Science in a manner that is relevant to our every-day lives and those of generations to come. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,001,482 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #89 in Architecture Project Planning & Management #169 in Urban & Land Use Planning (Books) #176 in Architectural Criticism | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 Reviews | ## Images ![Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91ZUCGSWL3L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This brilliant book opened my eyes to the world around me ... *by D***S on May 30, 2017* This brilliant book opened my eyes to the world around me and helped me see my environment in new ways. Goldhagen is advocating for better design, design that is more human-centric and connects us to nature. She's a former professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design and a well-known architecture critic, and she has spent her entire life trying to understand the process by which the built environment affects us emotionally and psychologically. Here she is writing for a general audience, and sharing what she has learned during a lifetime of interdisciplinary exploration with people like me, who do not have a background in art or design or architecture, but who are curious to learn about how our surroundings affect our lives. Imagine the treat of being able to go on a tour of the world with a guide who is so smart, insightful, entertaining, witty, deeply informed, and passionate about her subject. For what it's worth, this is also a beautifully produced book with gorgeous illustrations. It's a book I will save and treasure, and go back to again and again. I wish I could give it more stars. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A breakthrough in architectural theory! *by H***K on May 15, 2017* A real breakthrough in architectural theory, Sarah Williams Goldhagen has brought to light and articulated clearly what many of us may know by intuition: Design matters and it affects peoples' well-being and lives well beyond the attention it is given. This book is written in a very accessible manner and leads the reader through with ease and with just the right amount of supporting evidence, making it quite seamless. A fantastic book that connects Art and Science in a manner that is relevant to our every-day lives and those of generations to come. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth getting the physical copy. *by J***R on July 22, 2017* I cannot yet comment on the ideas in this book as I just received it, however I did want to comment on the physical book, itself, as I had some internal debate as to whether to get the book in hardcover or Kindle format. The physical dimensions and shipping weight are listed, but the numbers may not immediately tell you that the book feels heavy for its size - it does. The paper my parents' printing business has that feels most similar to that in the book is HP 150 gsm matte brochure paper. It has got that white, clay impregnated look of paper on which one prints images, and the same paper was used both for the text and the images. The printed words come across as matte, but there's enough clay that the photos have a semi-gloss, lustre look to them. The bulk of the text is in black, with chapter and section headings in blue. All the text on the dust jacket, page headings, and photo captions are sans serif, but main text uses a serif font that I find quite readable. The main text ends on page 292, followed by Acknowledgments ending on 297, image credits ending on 307, notes (290 of them) ending on 335, and an index ending on 347. In favor of the kindle version is that all the notes will likely come to you rather than vice versa. Also, the yellow head in the middle of the dust jacket is a cutout, which will undoubtably suck if you have a tight bookshelf. I'm sure the publisher could describe the physical book more accurately than I have. 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