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Books on Environmental Design and Psychology
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Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design
As a Healing Art
by Christopher Day
Challenges conventional building and
design practices and demonstrates how our built environments
can be made physically, socially, and spiritually enriching.
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Spiritual Gardening:
Creating Sacred Space Outdoors
by Peg Streep
This book covers a broad spectrum of
spiritual gardens from the more specific doctrines such as Zen, through to the
individual gardeners' interpretation of what makes a garden a spiritual place.
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Earth to Spirit: In Search of Natural Architecture
by David Pearson and William McDonough
From the author of The Natural House Book comes a provocative volume for anyone interested in design, designing or building which integrates the lessons of the past with today's technology to create structures where the land, the home, and the spirit coexist harmoniously.
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Feng Shui in the Garden: Simple
Solutions for Creating Comforting, Life-Affirming Gardens of the Soul
by Nancilee Wydra
Feng shui supports emotional nurturing. This book has eight
gardens to support emotional benefits that can be created in a terra cotta pot
or a field of dreams. Try a Lovers, Meditation, Healing, Retirement or a Power
garden and fill your life with joy!
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Ecological Design
by Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
Ecological Design presents a vision of how the living world and the human world can be rejoined by taking ecology as the basis for design--adapting and integrating human design with natural processes.
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House As a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home
by Clare Cooper Marcus and James Yandell
This ground-breaking book explores what our relationships to our houses reveal about ourselves.
Featuring interviews with over 100 people, and their color drawings about their homes as well as photos of their actual homes, Marcus tells us what our houses would say to us if they could talk.
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The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions
by Winifred Gallagher
There are reasons why most humans love the mountains and why the great outdoors can do so much to soothe the urban jitters. Winifred Gallagher explains the inner workings of environmental psychology in The Power of Place.
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The Experience of Place
by Tony Hiss
The Experience of Place offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings.
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Urban Ease: Stress-Free Living in the Big City
by Allen Elkin
Written in the quick-witted style of a true cosmopolitan, Urban Ease is an exhaustive anecdotal guide showing big-city dwellers how they can simplify their lives, reduce stress, and maximize the pleasures of urban living.
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