Archinect - News 2024-11-14T21:24:33-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/128709319/active-design-movement-wants-to-trick-you-into-taking-the-stairs "Active design" movement wants to trick you into taking the stairs Nicholas Korody 2015-06-03T12:42:00-04:00 >2015-06-08T11:16:13-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fn/fnp83ybxi4x9it7z.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>As we move through our cities each day, we make dozens of small decisions, based on dozens of small reasons. [...] The choices we make while navigating cities are influenced by subconscious factors that planners, architects and designers are beginning to mine and leverage. Some are wielding that insider knowledge to create places that will play mind tricks &mdash; to get us to make healthier decisions.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>