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  1. Feb 2019
    1. As an influential landscape designer of early campuses, Fredrick Law Olmstead worked with the philosophy that the physical landscape features had a direct impact on shaping human behavior, and offer students an active, experiential education versus passive or theoretical learning.

      This section reminded me of a great book by Professor Will Willson at Duke University. His work is on the "the context, mechanisms, and consequences" of urban environments. It goes into great deal about the psychological effect environments have on people. The ebook can be found here: http://people.duke.edu/~wgw/ConClim/index.html