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Designing for human behavior: architecture and the behavioral sciences.
Title:
Designing for human behavior: architecture and the behavioral sciences.
Author:
Lang, Jon T., editor.
ISBN:
9780879330545

9780879332174
Physical Description:
xiii, 353 pages :billustrations; 25 cm.
Series:
Community development series

Community development series.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Emerging issues in architecture. Professional and client: an emerging collaborative relationship / Howard E. Mitchell ; The architectural belief system and social behavior / Alan Lipman ; The social order of environmental design / Constance Perin ; A model of the designing process / Jon Lang and Charles Burnette ; An early summary of "The timeless way of building" / Christopher Alexander ; The human being and the institutional building / M. Powell Lawton ; Environmental psychology and the design professions / Harold M. Proshansky --

Pt. 2. Fundamental processes of environmental behavior. Theories of perception and "formal" design / Jon Lang ; The Gestalt psychology of expression in architecture / David Levi ; Psychological factors in the use of light and lighting in buildings / D. Geoffrey Hayward ; The house as symbol of the self / Clare Cooper ; Predicting the meaning of architecture / Robert G. Hershberger ; Architecture in the head: cognitive mapping / David Stea ; The mental image and design / Charles Burnette ; Behavior settings as data-generating units for the environmental planner and architect / William F. LeCompte ; The physical setting as a factor in group function and process / Maxine Wolfe and Harold Proshansky ; Looking back at personal space / Robert Sommer ; Meeting man's basic spatial needs in artificial environments / Edward T. Hall --

Pt. 3. Obtaining and using behavioral information. Surveys, questionnaires, and interviews / Ronald J. Goodrich ; Measuring attributes of the visual environment / Henry Sanoff ; Unobtrusive measures: their nature and utility for architects / Arthur H. Patterson ; The evaluation of environments: behavioral observations in an undersea habitat / Robert Heimreich ; Experimental methods in environmental design research / Robert B. Bechtel ; Fundamental values in planning with the nonpaying client / John Zeisel ; Behavioral analysis and environmental programming for offices / Walter H. Moleski ; Evaluating buildings on a performance basis / Michael Brill ; Building evaluation, user satisfaction, and design / Robert Gutman and Barbara Westergaard -- Pt. 4. Conclusion. Arm folding and architecture: the allied arts / Stuart W. Rose. -- Pt. 5. Bibliography. Designing for human behavior: a reference bibliography / Jon Lang, Walter H. Moleski, and David Vachon.
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