Why folks get complications from buildings

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Written by Arnold J Wilkins, The Conversation

Arnold J Wilkins is a professor of psychology at the University of Essex. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.

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It’s three o’clock. You’re at work, struggling to focus during the afternoon lull. You gaze out of your office window, hoping for some relief, but instead you feel a headache coming on.

Flat gray concrete lines the streets, while windows form repetitive glassy intervals in stark brick walls. With monotonous straight lines as far as the eye can see, there’s nowhere pleasant to rest your gaze. It may seem a superficial problem, but our research has found that looking at urban landscapes may actually give you a headache.

Over tens of thousands of years, the human brain evolved to effectively…

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