Health. Success. Love. How do the places where we live, work or spend our vacations, affect our life? Historian Roberta Rio is researching the history of buildings, apartments or land and finds recurring patterns. In this book she shows, based on old knowledge and new research results, what we should know about the effect of places and how we find out.

Roberta Rio has a doctorate in history with visiting professorships at the universities of Bologna, Vienna and Berlin. The method she uses in the analysis of places, she presented for the first time in 2011 at the University of Glasgow. The native Italian wrote numerous scientific papers and articles and lives in Carinthia and Bavaria.