With Man in Mind

by Perin, Constance

• ISBN13: 9780262660167
• ISBN10: 0262660164
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1972-01-15
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Although a responsible and welcome critical literature in the social sciences has in recent years been measuring the human costs of urban renewal and environmental degradation, telling the designer what to avoid does not necessarily enlighten him about what to do. The designers too have been transforming their attitudes, moving away from the rhetorical toward the socially aware and the scientific. The two groups are readier to meet now than ever before, and if they do so in the ways put forth in this book - with man in mind - then we will be better able to bring our environmental technologies into human service. With Man in Mindis not, however a handbook or manual of techniques, ready-made; it is instead an argument for changing the terms of our discourse about man and environment so that we can do interdisciplinary research on questions that matter. With the questioning of the ideas in this book, collaboration may finally begin.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Limitations of Theory in Environmental Design Today	p. 5
The Mutual Misapprehension of Design and Science	p. 6
Theory and Findings at the Drawing Board	p. 15
Environment and Behavior: Defining the Problem	p. 31
Collaboration Toward a Theory of Human Nature for Environmental Design	p. 53
Introduction	p. 54
The Inception Process in Environmental Design	p. 58
Human Studies in the Inception Process	p. 70
The Urgent Need for Collaboration Toward Theory	p. 107
The Designer's Intentions Toward Man	p. 115
Current Intentions	p. 116
The Equilibrating Model That is Man	p. 121
The Dramatic Analogy in Design	p. 128
Opportunities	p. 137
Basic Research in Environmental Design	p. 138
New Pleadings in the Law	p. 144
A Wider Vocabulary in Use	p. 147
What Will a Responsive Environment Look Like?	p. 158
Appendix	p. 161
Selected Bibliography	p. 167
Index	p. 177
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