Books in the Environment and Behavior series

Taking a social psychological perspective, the author integrates ideas from psychology, sociology, urban planning, and architecture. Non-technical and readable, the book offers a sophisticated examination of models of urban life and explores the issues of stress and crowding, urban social relationships, images of the city, and the impact of good and poor design.

Work Places discusses the research and theory concerning the physical surroundings that affect people in offices and factories. Environmental psychologist Eric Sundstrom with Mary Graehl Sundstrom explore such factors as interpersonal relationships, group cohesion, organisational effectiveness, status and self-identity as well as colour, air quality, noise, music and windows.

'Territorial functioning' refers to an interlocked system of sentiments, cognitions, and behaviors that are highly place-specific, and socially and culturally determined and maintaining. In this book, Ralph Taylor explores the consequences of human territorial functioning for individuals, small groups, and the ecological systems in which they operate.

This book reveals the social basis for public space use, design and management. The authors - an architect/environmental designer, a landscape architect, an environmental psychologist, and an open space administrator - offer a well-integrated perspective of how to integrate public space and public life.

This book describes ways of assessing the perceptions and experiences of the users of environments so that planners, designers, and managers may take them into account. The problem of environmental evaluation is presented in the context of public policies for the planning, design, and management of urban, rural, and wild environments in North America.

Architects, city planners and other design professionals have used theory and research from psychology and other behavioral sciences to make their work more responsive to the needs of people. This study describes in detail thirteen cases in which this approach was followed.

This innovative book looks at design competition architecture from a social science, psychological and public policy perspective. It shows the flaws of competition architecture, and highbrow architecture in general, for the consumer, and it offers a scientific approach to make design results more meaningful and functional to the public.

This book chronicles the four decade history of Chicago's Wentworth Gardens public housing residents' grassroots activism. The volume challenges common portrayals of public housing residents in order to show how women residents creatively and effectively sustain daily life, create a vital community and save their home from demolition.

In this book, first published in the UK in 1984, John Cone and Stephen Hayes explore the relation between physical environment and human behaviour. A fledgling field at the time, this study of the roots of environmentally relevant psychology has proved both fruitful and exciting.

This book distils thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments. The research program began with evaluations of new jails that were created by the US Bureau of Prisons, which had a novel design intended to provide a non-traditional and safe environment for pre-trial inmates and documented the stunning success of these jails in reducing tension and violence. This book uses assessments of this new model as a basis for considering the nature of environment and behavior in correctional settings and more broadly in all human settings. It provides a critical review of research on jail environments and of specific issues critical to the way they are experienced and places them in historical and theoretical context. It presents a contextual model for the way environment influences the chance of violence.