Urban Places is a project that aims to collect a compendium of user-submitted photographs and descriptions of favourite urban spaces.
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January 9, 2009
Nature May be the Remedy for Urban Burnout
Cities can be places of great creative excitement and inspiration, but as anyone who spends a lot of time there can tell you, the urban landscape can be draining as well. Recent research has shown that all the hectic man-made activity occurring on the average city street can lead to a dramatic kind of mental fatigue. The brain, only able to handle a certain number of processes and inputs at any one time ends up using much of its processing power just drowning out all the irrelevant stimuli. It’s been discovered however, that natural setting do not have the same [...]
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