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9781559635943

With People in Mind

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  • ISBN13:

    9781559635943

  • ISBN10:

    1559635940

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-03-01
  • Publisher: Island Pr

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Summary

Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing. Successful design and management requires knowledge of both people and environments.With People in Mindexplores how to design and manage areas of "everyday nature" -- parks and open spaces, corporate grounds, vacant lots and backyard gardens, fields and forests -- in ways that are beneficial to and appreciated by humans. Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, leading researchers in the field of environmental psychology, along with Robert Ryan, a landscape architect and urban planner, provide a conceptual framework for considering the human dimensions of natural areas and offer a fresh perspective on the subject. The authors examine.physical aspects of natural settings that enhance preference and reduce fear ways to facilitate way-finding how to create restorative settings that allow people to recover from the stress of daily demands landscape elements that are particularly important to human needs techniques for obtaining useful public input

Table of Contents

Preface ix(4)
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I By Way of Explanation: People and Nature 1(28)
Chapter 1 The Use of Patterns
3(4)
Chapter 2 Some Human Characteristics
7(22)
Part II Meeting the Challenges 29(50)
Chapter 3 Fears and Preferences
31(18)
Chapter 4 Way-finding
49(18)
Chapter 5 Restorative Environments
67(12)
Part III Design and Management Opportunities 79(42)
Chapter 6 Gateways and Partitions
81(8)
Chapter 7 Trails and Locomotion
89(10)
Chapter 8 Views and Vistas
99(10)
Chapter 9 Places and Their Elements
109(12)
Part IV With People in Mind 121(42)
Chapter 10 Engaging People
123(24)
Chapter 11 Putting It Together
147(16)
Appendix: Matrix of Patterns and Themes 163(4)
Readings: By Subject 167(28)
Readings: Alphabetic 195(22)
Photo Credits 217(2)
Index 219

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