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Title Designing for human behavior : architecture and the behavioral sciences. / Edited by Jon Lang [and others]
Published Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, [1974]

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Description xiii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Community development series ; v. 6
Community development series ; v. 6
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
Analysis Architectural design Environmental aspects
Notes Bibliography: p. 341-350
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 341-350
Subject Architectural design.
Architecture -- Environmental aspects.
Architecture -- Psychological aspects.
Architecture.
Behavior
Environment
Human behavior.
Adaptation (Biology)
Architecture as Topic
Architecture.
Behavior.
Environment.
Author Lang, Jon T., compiler
LC no. 73022208
ISBN 0879330546