You Are Here
Subtitle: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: July 7, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780385528061
Subjects: Health, Mind & Body -- Psychology & Counseling -- By Topic; Nonfiction -- Transportation; Professional & Technical -- Professional Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography
Description: Psychologist Colin Ellard explains how, over centuries of innovation, we have lost our instinctive ability to find our way and suggests that architects and city planners need to consider human behavior when designing human environments, and we all need to recognize that we are part of, not isolated from, the space around us.