People and Buildings

There is at the present time a continuing interest in relating the behavioral sciences to design disciplines

Robert Gutman

One: Behavioral Constraints on Building Design; 1: The Aesthetics of Function; 2: Physiology and Anatomy of Urination; Design Considerations for Urination; 3: Cultural Variability in Physical Standards; 4: Invasions of Personal Space; 5: Territoriality: A Neglected Sociological Dimension; 6: The Physical Environment: A Problem for a Psychology of Stimulation; Two: Spatial Organization and Social Interaction; 7: The Psycho-Social Influence of Building Environment: Sociometric Findings in Large and Small Office Spaces; 8: Architecture and Group Membership; 9: Silent Assumptions in Social Communication; 10: The Social Psychology of Privacy; 11: Social Theory in Architectural Design; Three: Environmental Influences on Health and Well-Being; 12: The Housing Environment and Family Life; 13: Medical Consequences of Environmental Home Noises; 14: Effects of Esthetic Surroundings: I. Initial Short-Term Effects of Three Esthetic Conditions upon Perceiving "Energy" and "Well-Being" in Faces 1; Effects of Esthetic Surroundings: II. Prolonged and Repeated Experience in a "Beautiful" and an "Ugly" Room 7; 15: Grieving for a Lost Home; 16: Health Consequences of Population Density and Crowding; Four: The Social Meaning of Architecture; 17: Images of Urban Areas: Their Structure and Psychological Foundations; 18: Furniture Arrangement as a Symbol of Judicial Roles; 19: Fear and the House-as-Haven in the Lower Class; 20: Pecuniary Canons of Taste; 21: Place, Symbol, and Utilitarian Function in War Memorials; Five: The Application of Behavioral Science to Design; 22: The Questions Architects Ask 1; 23: The Room, A Student's Personal Environment; 24: Old People's Flatlets at Stevenage; 25: Typology and Design Method; 26: The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact