Giving Places Meaning

Preface, D. Canter; introduction - place, aesthetic evaluation and home, L. Groat. Part 1 Theories of place: creating places or designing spaces?, J.D. Sime; the behavioural component in the meaning of places, R.L. Genereux et al; the city as a multi-place system - an analysis of people-urban environment transactions, M. Bonnes et al; place-identity - physical world socialization of the self, H.M. Proshansky et al; place-identity as a product of environmental self-regulation, A.K. Fabian and R. Kaminoff. Part 2 Prototypicality and expert judgements in aesthetic evaluations: differences in the perception of national socialist and classicist architecture, H. Espe; meaning in post-modern architecture - an examination using the multiple sorting task, L. Groat; design training and aesthetic evaluation - an intergroup comparison, A. Whitfield and J. Wiltshire; the beauty and the beast - some preliminary comparisons of "high" versus "popular" residential architecture and public versus architect judgements of same, K. Devlin and L. Nasar; predicting preference of familiar, everyday objects - an experimental confrontation between two theories of aesthetic behaviour, T.W.A. Whitfield; experiencing other people's houses - a model of similarities and differences in environmental experience, A.T. Purcell and J.L. Nasar. Part 3 The meaning of home: housing symbolism in new remote mining communities in Australia - implication for innovative versus conventional design and siting of houses in harsh environments, C.C. Neil; a psychological-spatial approach for architectural design and research, R.J. Lawrence; the home from attic to cellar, P. Korosec-Serfaty; the meaning of home - an exploratory study of environmental experience, J. Sixsmith.