Environment and Behavior Studies
Emergence of Intellectual Traditions
Published on 11. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-1-4684-7946-1 (ISBN)
Description
This eleventh volume in the series departs from the pattern of earlier volumes. Some of those volumes addressed research, design, and policy topics in terms of environmental settings, for example, homes, communities, neighborhoods, and public places. Others focused on environmental users, for example, chil dren and the elderly. The present volume examines the field of environment and behavior studies itself in the form of intellectual histories of some of its most productive and still visible senior participants. In so doing we hope to provide readers with a grand sweep of the field-its research and design content, methodology, institutions, and past and future trajectories-through the experiences and intellectual histories of its participants. Why intellectual histories? Several factors led to the decision to launch this project. For one, 1989 was an anniversary and commemorative year for the Environmental Design Research Association, perhaps the major and most long-standing interdisciplinary organization of environment and behavior re searchers and practitioners. Established in 1969, this organization has been the vehicle for generations of researchers and practitioners from many disciplines to come together annually to exchange ideas, present papers, and develop professional and personal relationships. It held its first and twentieth meetings in North Carolina, with the twentieth conference substantially devoted to dis cussions of the past, present, and future of the field-a taking stock, so to speak. Thus it seemed appropriate to launch a volume on intellectual histories at this significant juncture in the life of the field.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
392 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
572 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4684-7946-1 (9781468479461)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-7944-7
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Irwin Altman | Kathleen Christensen
Environment and Behavior Studies
Emergence of Intellectual Traditions
Book
06/1990
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
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Content
1 The Pursuit of Understanding: An Intellectual History.- How It All Began: People, Places, and Events.- Growing Disenchantment.- The Making of an Environmental Psychologist.- Concepts and Assumptions of an Environmental Psychologist.- Today and Tomorrow.- References.- 2 A Fish Who Studies Water.- Plan.- Early Academic Influences.- University of California-Davis.- A Different Approach.- Consultation.- Expert Witness as Hired Gun.- Future Directions.- References.- 3 Settings of a Professional Lifetime.- The 1928 Person.- Stanford University, 1929-1935.- University of Iowa, 1935-1937.- Harvard University, 1937-1938.- University of Illinois, 1938-1942.- Stanford University, 1942-1945.- Clark University, 1946-1947.- University of Kansas, 1947-1972.- Other Places, Other People.- Conclusion.- References.- 4 Science and the Failure of Architecture: An Intellectual History.- Why Intellectual Histories?.- Personal Background.- Chance and Places.- Chance-Times and Zeitgeist.- My View of Architecture.- My View of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS).- Continuity in My Work.- Recent Work.- Conclusion.- References.- 5 From the Pragmatic to the Spiritual: An Intellectual Autobiography.- Immigration to the United States and Early Housing Research.- Teaching: The Early Years.- Consulting.- Beneath the Surface: The Environment as Metaphor.- Merging Academic and Personal Concerns.- Teaching: New Directions.- Introspection as Inspiration.- The New Paradigm.- Future Work.- References.- 6 Environmental and Personality Psychology: Two Collective Narratives and Four Individual Story Lines.- Collective Narrative I: The Invasion of the Paradigms in the Development of Environmental Psychology.- Collective Narrative II: Historical Fates of Personality Research Methods.- IndividualStory Line. Field Studies in Personality: The Act Frequency Approach.- Individual Story Line: Naturalistic Observational Assessment and the Reputational Analysis of Personality.- Conclusions.- References.- 7 Paths toward Environmental Consciousness.- Some Cautions about Personal Accounts.- My New York Identity.- The Changing Paths.- Beyond the Institutions.- The Public Arena.- Dealing with Homelessness.- The New York Context.- With a View toward the Future.- References.- 8 Thinking...As Much Fun as Sex, Drugs, and Rock'n Roll.- A Quirky Mind That Spatializes Almost Everything.- Paying Attention to Patterns and People.- Not Much and Not Very Higher Education.- A Finishing School and Early Teaching.- Emphasizing Esthetics in Design.- Emphasizing Psychosocial Needs of Users in Design.- Emphasizing Design as a Branch of the Humanities: Present Work.- A Summary of the History.- About the Making of This Intellectual History.- References.- 9 Toward a Transactional Perspective: A Personal Journey.- A Conceptual Framework.- Phase I: Psychological Processes as Complex and Holistic, with Dynamic Temporal Qualities (P,T,e).- Phase II: Physical Environment as an Aspect of Psychological Processes (P,E,t).- Phase III: The Unity of Places and Psychological Processes (E,P,t).- Phase IV: Temporal Qualities of Environmental Places (T,E,p) and Temporal Qualities of Psychological Processes (T,P,e).- Phase V: The Transactional Unity of Psychological Processes, Physical Environments/Places, and Temporal Factors (P,E,T).- Retrospective and Prospective.- References.- 10 One Person-in-His-Environments.- Precursors.- General Factors.- The General Approach.- Predispositions toward Assumptions: People and Places.- Research Program on Critical Person-in-Environment Transitions.- Issues andChallenges for the Future.- Apologia.- References.- 11 Landscape Research: Planned and Serendipitous.- A Few Caveats.- The Paradigms.- 20-20 Hindsight.- From Teacher-Practitioner to Teacher-Researcher.- A Paradigm Shift.- An Emphasis on Research.- Cross-Cultural Studies.- Experiencing a New Landscape.- Riparian Landscapes.- Perceiving Landscape Change.- Looking Backward and Forward.- References.- 12 In Search of Objectives.- Early Days.- The Architectural Context.- The Japanese Experience.- Ethnoscapes.- Emerging Conceptualizations of Place.- The Theory of Place.- The Journal of Environmental Psychology.- Fire Research.- Building Evaluations.- Facet Theory.- A Developing Theory of Environmental (Social) Psychology.- The Feasibility of Application.- Broadening Horizons.- References.- 13 An Environmental Psychologist Ages.- Basic versus Applied: Love of Humanity and Love of Knowledge.- Gerontology: Applied and Empirical.- Midcareer Gerontology: Interaction.- Basic Research, Applied Research, and Dissemination.- Theory and Empirics.- Person, Environment, and Transaction.- Present and Future Research.- Conclusion.- References.