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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness Audio CD – MP3 Audio, Unabridged, Audiobook, 23 June 2020

by Emily Anthes (Author)

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Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend ninety percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? Our productivity, performance, and relationships?In this wide-ranging, character-driven book, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the pain-killing power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. She investigates how room temperature regulates our cognitive performance, how the microbes hiding in our homes influence our immune systems, and how cafeteria design affects what?and how much?we eat.Along the way, Anthes takes listeners into an operating room designed to minimize medical errors, a school designed to boost students physical fitness, and a prison designed to support inmates psychological needs. And she previews homes of the future, from the high-tech houses that could monitor our health to the 3D-printed structures that might allow us to live on the Moon.

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Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1662002866
ISBN-13 : 978-1662002861

Best Sellers Rank: 89,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 241 in Interior Design
- 244 in Interior Design & Decoration
- 5,833 in Science & Nature

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Christopher J. Mims

Excellent, entertaining, timely

7 July 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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I read a lot of non-fiction, and am impressed by the ability of most writers in this genre to put me to sleep.

Emily's book, by contrast, is full of all these quirky and timely insights, and as I read it during this time of quarantine I couldn't help but marvel at the biodiversity of the indoor space I otherwise thought of as being pretty sterile.

Also good stuff in here about the psychological and health impacts of buildings on us. You can see some of this research in her pieces for various outlets (Washington Post etc.) but the bulk of it is here, in this book. Well worth a read.

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J. Fried

Well balanced look at a gee-whiz topic

9 July 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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The title of Ms. Anthes book— a title that maybe could be traced to the publisher’s marketing department—immediately raises lots of red flags.
All those hot words—Surprising Science ...Shape...Our Behavior...Health...etc—tell us we’re about to dive deep into a paean to Sheng fui and similar mysticisms.
Thankfully, Ms. Anthes is a journalist with a well-honed understanding of medicine and science.
She’s also, it should be said, possessed of a fluid and easy to follow writing style, no small achievement when dealing with complicated medical science issues.
Ms. Anthes lays out a sound case for believing the possible link between an innovative architecture style and human physiological and psychological health—even as she casts a skeptical eye on all the claims made in behalf of the architecture-health association.
In other words, in her visits to schools, prisons, workplaces she shows an appreciation for the efforts to change for the better their impact on the humans within them, even as she questions, at times, if the vaunted positive effects are real—or sustainable at all.
Her approach leaves the reader with an appreciation of the possibilities of architecture’s impact on our lives while also leaving us willing to wait for the clinching arguments.
Full disclosure: I am a friend of her parents, but I am also a journalist who spent much of 40 years writing articles and books about medical science.

6 people found this helpful

Matticus Finch

Great Resource of Valuable Case Studies for Architects and Interior Designers

4 January 2021 - Published on Amazon.com

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The Great Indoors is an invaluable resource for upcoming architects, interior designers, engineers, etc. Anyone involved in the building arts and the built environment should pick up this book. The author, Emily Anthes, painstakingly researched pioneers, innovators and great developments in the built environment that leaves a hopeful future to look forward to.

That being said, I think the title could be a bit misleading. This isn't for casual reading and if someone picked up this book hoping for a really scientific, behavioral and health study then they'd be understandably disappointed. The book is more of a series of well researched design concepts and case studies that inhabit the current world of architecture/design/urban planning. These include residential microorganisms (the most scientific topic of the book), prison reform, aging in place, inhabitants with disabilities, childhood education and more, all as they relate to architecture and design. Most chapters are ripe with case studies that you can further research and find images and articles to delve into.

I've already recommended this to designers and architects I know, and will continue to do so.

Harold Forbes

Not Exactly What I Expected, But Good

23 January 2021 - Published on Amazon.com

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I thought this would a comprehensive review of how to design buildings for humans, but it's a review of some recent research into how to design buildings for humans. It was good.

S. Larkin

Excellent, and timely

7 July 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

The only disappointing thing about Emily Anthes' "The Great Indoors" is that it didn't have more chapters.

I devoured the Kindle version so quickly that I was surprised when I reached the "Notes" section. I honestly expected and desperately wanted MORE. This is the mark of an excellent writer.

The analysis of different forms of indoor living - not just architecture, but inhabiting our spaces - was fascinating. As were the conclusions that making living accessible for some (read the chapter "Full Spectrum") can make it accessible and enjoyable for all.

Anthes isn't here to just rah-rah new technology, though. For all the falls prevented, the wired housing described for seniors can be a serious invasion of privacy. She describes all the benefits in detail, but gets to the drawbacks too. And she asks, in so many words, where do we make the trade off?

In some cases, there's no tradeoff necessary. In some, it's financial. The housing for people on the autism spectrum sounded just delightful, and like the answer to many parents prayers. But the cost associated with it could seem like a nightmare. Even in the schools designed to make kids healthier, cost control creeps in. But during this time of COVID isolation, working at home, schooling at home and remote everything, a thoughtful overview of our indoor spaces is just what we need.

I plan to read the book several more times, then start gifting it to people in city planning departments, and school departments. Anthes uncovered so many commonsense good ideas about indoor design and architecture that it must be shared.

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