Bell, P.A., T.C. Greene, J.D. Fisher & A. Baum, 2001, Environmental psychology, Thomson, Belmont
- Author : Bell, P.A., T.C. Greene, J.D. Fisher & A. Baum
- Year : 2001
- Publisher : Thomson
- Publisher's Location : Belmont
- ISBN : 0-15-508064-4
- Pages : 634
- Edition : 5
- Comments : KEYWORDS: environmental psychology, human nature, perception, behavior, noise, climate, personal space, cities, Planning, design, workplace, leisure, human environment,coherence, complexity, fascination,legibility, mystery, restoration, being away, extent, fascination, compatibility .
- Outline : OUTLINE and CONTENTS: The introductory chapter views the characteristics that distinguish environmental psychology from other fields, provides the relevant historical context, and summarizes the research methods central to the discipline. Chapter two lays the groundwork of the biological human being and our relationship with nature including biophila and biophobia. There the authors introduce environmental attitudes, values and ethics, and the principles that apply to environmental assessment. Here the concept of placemaking and attachment to places is also introduced. Chapter 3 is on environmental perception and cognition. How we process information about natural and built environments, how we store environmental and how we negotiate our way through environments involves some very basic as well as applied principles. The main contents of the book are: 1. The why, what, and how of environmental psychology; 2. Nature and human nature; 3. Environmental perception and cognition; 4. Theories of environmental-behavior relationships; 5. Noise; 6. Weather, climate, and behavior; 7 Disasters, toxic hazards, and pollution; 8. Personal space and territoriality; 9. High density and crowding; 10. The city; 11. Planning and design for human behavior; 12. Design in residential and institutional environments; 13. Work. Learning, and environments. 14. Changing b behavior to save the environment. The book contains a 15 pages’ glossary. The book is dealing with many aspects concerning landscape architecture and –design. Many references of this book are already (including abstracts and keywords) entered in this Le-Notre’s Literature database.