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Episode 350: The Built Environment Memory Hole

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Paradoila - A Face or a Body?

Scientists have a name for it. Its called paridoila. It's essentially a condition where we, when we're born, are looking for a face or human body. And so to the extent thatt facesr are in the facades of buildings then we will be attracted to them and remember them. I mean, look at some of the most famous the world. They tend to look like faces, or look like a body. Any of them literally have statues or have some sort of face like arrangements on their facades. So this is like a big part of lie traditional or vernacular architecture and design,. But bu so much o. i'm trying to cind of

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