Recensori in anteprimaColin Ellard

A neuroscientist illuminates how we make and are made by the world both real and virtual Our surroundings can powerfully affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical responses, whether we’re awed by the Grand Canyon or Hagia Sophia, panicked in a crowded room, soothed by a walk in the park, or tempted in casinos and shopping malls. In Places of the Heart, neuroscientist Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature—places we escape to and can’t escape from—have influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating. Praise for Colin Ellard “One of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design.” —Charles Montgomery, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design “One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” —Los Angeles Times 
 “Delightfully lucid. . . . Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” —New York Times Book Review

 “[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.” —NPR