> At the British University of Warwick, an extensive study was conducted in 2017. It established that beautiful urban architecture has the same positive impact on our physical and mental health as green parks.<p>The linked study: <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170170" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170170</a><p>> Here, we explore whether ratings of over 200 000 images of Great Britain from the online game Scenic-Or-Not, combined with hundreds of image features extracted using the Places Convolutional Neural Network, might help us understand what beautiful outdoor spaces are composed of. [...] We also find that a neural network can be trained to automatically identify scenic places, and that this network highlights both natural and built locations. Our findings demonstrate how online data combined with neural networks can provide a deeper understanding of what environments we might find beautiful<p>Yeah it "established" nothing of that sort. This whole article is built on some extremely weak research.
Brutalism was no accident.<p>I think cars, and almost everything related to them, are waaaay worse than ugly buildings for our physical and mental health but I am afraid I'll die alone on this hill. The vast majority would kill for a parking spot, let alone giving up their smelly, loud chunk of metal
"Who is running AU?<p>The Architectural Uprising is a global movement that <i>includes people of all backgrounds, ages, genders, and political views</i>. All united by a passion for beautiful architecture and an aesthetically pleasing living environment."<p>Given this, I'd treat this site, not just the article, with several metric tonnes of salt. It's like, just their opinion, man, to (mis)quote the dude...
Mildly related, I remember watching an anime some time ago where the plot was that hostile architecture made its residents go crazy and start murdering each other. I sent it to my architect sister and we had a good chuckle.
I am leading the Norwegian Architectural Uprising. It is hard to proof anything in environmental psychology. I just want people to be more critical to what property developers and the state is building.
Two questions:<p>1. When can we sue bad architects for the bad effects of their work on our health?<p>2. Can wearing VR goggles prevent these bad effects?
Christopher Alexander "Nature of Order", "Pattern Language", "Notes on the Synthesis of Form"<p>It's impossible to summarize his work (the above are his most famous books, in reverse chronological order) but the essence of his idea is that space itself is the "luminous ground of being" and our architecture can conduce or block the essential selfness...<p>I'm doing a terrible job of describing it... sorry.