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The Hidden Ways That Architecture Affects How You Feel (bbc.com)
"We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us," mused Winston Churchill in 1943 while considering the repair of the bomb-ravaged House of Commons. From a report: More than 70 years on, he would doubtless be pleased to learn that neuroscientists and psychologists have found plenty of evidence to back him up. We now know, for example, that buildings and cities can affect our mood and well-being, and that specialised cells in the hippocampal region of our brains are attuned to the geometry and arrangement of the spaces we inhabit. Yet urban architects have often paid scant attention to the potential cognitive effects of their creations on a city's inhabitants. The imperative to design something unique and individual tends to override considerations of how it might shape the behaviours of those who will live with it. That could be about to change. "There are some really good [evidence-based] guidelines out there" on how to design user-friendly buildings, says Ruth Dalton, who studies both architecture and cognitive science at Northumbria University in Newcastle. "A lot of architects choose to ignore them. Why is that?"
This probably means you'll have to live in a city run by Democrats
You mean like Detroit?
Quips aside, pretty much every big(ish) city in US is run by Democrats these days... you have to go to rural areas to find non-Dems.
But please be aware that some of the nicest and most iconic features in our major cities were built decades or centuries ago when the cities weren't completely saturated with Democrat voters.
Of course many of the most beautiful structures in the world were made eons ago when Democrats or even liberalism didn't exist. Hagia Sophia anyone?
Stunning, yes. Which is also why your comment about "the gun control argument" is equally silly. Gun control is not a bandage you just slap on an area and go "See! There's going to be less crime!" Gun control only works if EVERYONE is on board with it, both at the federal and state level (see many many many other 1st world countries with gun control at the federal level which works: Japan, Canada, Demark, England, etc.). Chicago expecting less crime due to the ban was silly as it was easy to bring guns in from outside (as stated), but to broaden that example out to a country-wide or a generalized argument against it?
Bitch, please.
Also, nice cross spectrum spread on "liberals hate drug prohibition but love gun control". The liberals I hang out with tend to try to follow a Christian mindset and love the sinner and hate the crime. Hence why they tend to view mandatory minimum sentences for questionably small amounts as not helping the fundamental issue of addiction, as until there are sufficient programs in jail to treat and rehabilitate them back into public life, you're condemning them to a second-class life. There's where your liberal equivalency really breaks down, you know. Physical addiction to drugs drives the urge to get more drugs by any means. Are you saying that the need for guns is also an uncontrollable addiction?