Applications of Environment-Behavior Research: Case Studies and Analysis (Environment and Behavior)
Cambridge University Press, 10/21/1993
EAN 9780521337700, ISBN10: 0521337704
Paperback, 360 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
Architects, city planners, and other design professionals have used theory and research from psychology and other behavioral sciences to make their work more responsive to the needs of the people who use the buildings, parks, and city streets they help to shape. This book describes in detail thirteen cases in which that approach was followed. It analyzes the use of environmental design research in each case, demonstrating how it has made a positive contribution in these cases and how its use can improve design and planning processes in general and thus the quality of the built and natural environments.
Part I
Introduction
1. Preface and introduction
2. A model of environmental design/planning research (EDR) and a framework for analyzing cases of EDR
Part II
Building Design
3. Contra Costa County main detention facility
4. University of Michigan replacement hospital programe
5. Belchertown State School
6. Seattle FAA office building
7. Trinity College dormitory
8. Sociopetal space in psychiatric hospitals
Part III
Community Planning
9. Exxon Plaza re-design
10. Livable streets
11. Clason Point Gardens
12. CMUC (MACUL)
Part IV
Environmental Management
13. Energy conservation
14. San Francisco's 1985 downtown plan
15. Lower Wisconsin State Riverway
PartV
Conclusion
16. Epilogue
the past, present, and future of environmental design research'.