"Sofitel" on Friday!

How the city hurts your brain!
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"We see the picture of the busy street, and we automatically imagine what it's like to be there!":
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Consider everything your brain has to keep track of as you walk down a busy thoroughfare like Sofitel Street. There are the crowded sidewalks full of distracted pedestrians who have to be avoided; the hazardous crosswalks that require the brain to monitor the flow of traffic.
(The brain is a wary machine, always looking out for potential threats.)
There's the confusing urban grid, which forces people to think continually about where they're going and how to get there.

Instead of inhabiting wide-open spaces, we're crowded into concrete jungles, surrounded by taxis, traffic, and millions of strangers.
In recent years, it's become clear that such unnatural surroundings have important implications for our mental and physical health, and can powerfully alter how we think.