Re: Let’s Build
On Oct 16, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
However, the deciding factor in people’s attitudes toward this form
of settlement is not efficiency, functionality or aesthetic but
“hard-wired” cognitive perceptions of space. Those who are hard
wired for open, scarcely populated spaces will feel miserable in
the most functional and efficient urban setting; while those hard
wired for closed densely populated spaces will always be miserable
in the country side, even if they lived in mansions. These
preferences are like claustrophobia or agoraphobia - they cannot be
rationally debated.
Are Americans “hard-wired” differently from the Dutch and Japanese?
Doug