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Title Aesthetics, well-being, and health : essays within architecture and environmental aesthetics / edited by Birgit Cold
Published Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2001]
©2001

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Description x, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Ethnoscapes, Current Challenges In The Environmental Social Sciences
Ethnoscapes
Ethnoscapes, Current Challenges In The Environmental Social Sciences
Ethnoscapes.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Preface ix -- Introduction 1 -- Why it is important to discuss this subject -- Aesthetics, Well-being and Health 11 -- Aesthetics 11 -- Well-being and health 16 -- Beauty and well-being 18 -- The Essays 24 -- The invitation 24 -- The essays' views on aesthetics and beauty, well-being and health 25 -- Environments and places in the essays 26 -- Issues raised in the essays 28 -- Health and Beauty: Enclosure and Structure 49 -- David Canter -- Beauty 67 -- Birgit Cold -- The Aesthetics of Place 93 -- Kim Dovey -- Creating Aesthetic Built Environments through the User -- Participation Process 102 -- Aase Eriksen -- What Happens if Zeleste Becomes an Architect? 117 -- Arnulf Kolstad -- The Architectural Psychology Box of Infinite Knowledge 129 -- Rikard Kiiller -- Housing, Health and Aesthetics: Reconnecting the Senses 143 -- Roderick Lawrence -- "Chuck out the Chintz"? Some Observations on Aesthetics, -- Well-being and Health 157 -- Sue-Ann Lee -- Reflections on Concepts of Aesthetics, Health and Well-being 173 -- Byron Mikellides -- Aesthetics in the Built Environment and its Influence on the User 193 -- Kaj Noschis -- The Mind of the Environment 203 -- Juhani Pallasmaa -- Aesthetics, Order and Discipline 221 -- Jens Schjerup Hansen -- I Live in a Beautiful House, on a Beautiful Street in Beautiful Montreal: -- Notes on Well-being and the Experience of Place Aesthetics 241 -- Perla Serfaty-Garcon -- Environmental Aesthetics and Well-being: Implications -- for a Digital World 249 -- Daniel Stokols -- Reasonable Persons and Their Aesthetic Preferences 259 -- Einar Strumse -- Conversations on Aesthetics 271 -- David Uzzell -- Buildings Imagined as Bodies 290 -- Ann Westerman -- Presentation of the Contributors 303 -- Appendix 1 311 -- Selected findings from the book Aesthetics, Well-being and Health - -- abstracts on theoretical and empirical research within environmental aesthe- -- tics (1998) -- Appendix 2 315 -- List of reviewed literature from the book Aesthetics, Well-being and -- Health, - abstracts on theoretical and empirical research within environ- -- mental aesthetics (1998)
Bibliography "Papers, articles, monographs": pages 315-321
Includes bibliographical references
Subject Health -- Miscellanea.
Environmental health -- Miscellanea.
Well-being.
Environmental health.
Health.
Environment (Aesthetics)
Landscape assessment.
Architecture -- Environmental aspects.
Architecture -- Human factors.
Aesthetics.
Architecture.
Architecture as Topic
Public Health.
Environment Design.
Esthetics.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung
Trivia and miscellanea.
Author Cold, Birgit.
LC no. 2001091659
ISBN 0754618560