Applications of Environment-Behavior Research: Case Studies and Analysis / Edition 1

by Paul D. Cherulnik

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521337700
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/30/1993
Series:	Environment and Behavior
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

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'.

Editorial Reviews

"...should provide considerable food for thought to students wanting to know more about the application of their discipline...Cherulnik's decision to use case studies to convince designers and planners of the benefits of applied research...is an excellent one...the book should achieve Cherulnik's goal of adding... to the progress of applied environmental design research." Carolyn Whitehead, Journal of Environmemtal Psychology

"As a practitioner, I found it stimulating to be presented with the variety of settings, methods, difficulties and successes which the case studies encompass; I am sure that students will be similarly inspired....Cherulnik's decision to use case studies to convince designers and planners of the benefits of applied research...is an excellent one...should achieve Cherulnik's goal of adding...to the progress of applied environmental design research. Carolyn Whitehead, Journal of Environmental Psychology

"As a practitioner, I found it stimulating to be presented with the variety of settings, methods, difficulties and successes which the case studies encompass; I am sure that students will be similarly inspired....Cherulnik's decision to use case studies to convince designers and planners of the benefits of applied research...is an excellent one...should achieve Cherulnik's goal of adding...to the progress of applied environmental design research. Carolyn Whitehead, Journal of Environmental Psychology

"...should provide considerable food for thought to students wanting to know more about the application of their discipline...Cherulnik's decision to use case studies to convince designers and planners of the benefits of applied research...is an excellent one...the book should achieve Cherulnik's goal of adding... to the progress of applied environmental design research." Carolyn Whitehead, Journal of Environmemtal Psychology

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