This is generally reflected in the clever chapter titles- The Indoor Jungle, A Hospital Room of One’s Own, Stair Masters, The Cure for the Common Cubicle, Full Spectrum, Jailbreakers, If These Walls Could Talk, Listen, and Record, Hope Floats, and Blueprints for the Red Planet-although one must venture within each to really appreciate the breadth of each. The book is clearly divided into nine chapters-over and above the Introduction-each of which delves into some interesting aspects of different indoor environments. We experience them constantly….but do we really know them? Enter science journalist Emily Anthes, whose recently published The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness offers a brilliant glimpse into the complexity of the interiors that pervade our lives. As such, we often take the spaces that structure our everyday lives for granted. According to well-known The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants, North Americans spend roughly 85% of their time indoors. Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020)
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