This is my first venture into mobile blogging on the Build2sustain blog, so please forgive any iPhone related typo I might miss.

I wanted to be at Greenbuild this week, but alas a client (not B2S related) puts me on the road to Columbus, Ohio. But whenever I have to travel, I think about the relationship of the designed space to the people meant to use it every day. I'll be walking to an MTA bus in a few minutes, taking it to LaGuardia airport, and then getting in a regional jet. Two of those three spaces are mobile, I grant. But the important thing all three share is that they are designed spaces meant to illicit certain behaviors and provide certain services from the people that use them.

My thoughts always drift to three questions.

1. How can we design these places better and increase their value not just in the sense of real estate, but as an experience visitors remember fondly.
2. How can the built environment (particularly of the airport) be more sustainable?
3. Can a built environment like an airport actually influence the people in it to make
more sustainable choices?

Any thoughts on my three questions? How does one make a giant shopping mall where people happen to take flights a more sustainable space? The comment section awaits, as does my flight. I look forward to your responses!