Readings on the Psychology of Place: Selected Works of David Canter [Paperback]

Foreword  1. Architectural Psychology  Part 1: Origins of The Psychology of Place  2. Office Size: An example of psychological research in Architecture  3. The Need for a Theory of Function in Architecture  4. Should we treat building users as subjects or objects?  5. Judgements of People and Their Rooms  6. Distance Estimation in Cities  7. The Psychology of Place  Part 2: Elaborating the Theory of Place  8. The Purposive Evaluation of Places  9. Putting situations in their place: Bridging social and environmental psychology  10. Intention, meaning and structure: Social action in its physical context  11. Action and Place: an existential dialectic  Part 3: Methodology - Studying Place Experience  12. A Non-Reactive Study of Room Use in Modern Japanese Apartments  13. Picture Or Place? A Multiple Sorting Study of Landscape  14. Revealing the Conceptual Systems of Places  Part 4: Applications - The Theory of Place in Action  15. Intentionality and Fatality during the Kings Cross Underground Fire  16. The Environmental Range of Serial Rapists  17. Why do we Leave it so Late? Response to Environmental Threat and the Rules of Place  18. Creating Places without Designers  Bibliography

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications. In this fascinating volume, Professor David Canter reflects on his career.

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