| Description |
1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. The Words We Choose: Revisiting "Environment" and "Behavior" -- 2. Design as a Social Act: The Rise of Social Research and the Challenges of Participatory Design -- 3. Reassessing Small Urban Spaces -- 4. Enacting the Socio-Material: Matter and Meaning Reconfigured through Disability Experience -- 5. The Algorithmic vs. the Messy: User Research in Architectural Practice -- 6. The Health-Promoting Potential of Preschool Outdoor Environments: Linking Research to Policy -- 7. Making Sense of Sustainability: Balancing Technology, User Satisfaction, and Aesthetics -- 8. Social Factors in the Age of Social Media: Transdisciplinary Co-Design with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation |
| Summary |
"Research in Social Factors, also called Environment and Behavior Studies or Person-Environment Relations, is research into the human experience of the built environment. Even since its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, as a response to the perceived failures of Modernism, Social Factors continues to ask questions about how people use space, and what meaning that space holds. This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research and contemporary issues into one book. Divided into two parts, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the continuing relevance of, and the wide array of topics in, the field. The first section, History and Future Outlook, addresses the field itself, investigating its history and common terms and updating seminal work. The second section, Perspectives on the User, surveys contemporary research into the human side of design, understanding the built environment through the lens of valuing 'the user', a term which encompasses everyone from Native Americans to children to adults with disabilities to entire cities devastated by tornadoes. Contributors to this volume include emerging and established scholars, as well as practitioners, and touch on issues of sustainability, history, culture, new media, disaster recovery, health, and recreation. This book will particularly appeal to scholars looking to keep abreast of current issues, students of the field endeavouring to understand their chosen subject, and practitioners exploring new strategies in understanding the clients they serve. The array of topics and perspectives examined here demonstrates a renaissance of Social Factors"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Human factors -- Congresses
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Architectural design -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Architecture and society -- Congresses
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Literature & literary studies.
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Social & cultural history.
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First World War.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Architectural design -- Social aspects
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Architecture and society
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Architecture -- Human factors
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lindsay, Georgia, editor.
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Morhayim, Lusi, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781443883405 |
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1443883409 |
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