Human Aspects of Urban Form
：Towards a Man—Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design
Publication subTitle ：Towards a Man—Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9781483182162
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780080242804
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780080242804
Subject： TU-023 environment theory
Keyword： 社会科学理论与方法论
Language： ENG
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Description
Human Aspects of Urban Form: Towards a Man—Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design discusses the man—environment interaction in urban setting. The book is comprised six chapters that provide a broad conceptual framework using a range of disciplines.
The text first tackles urban design as the organization of space, time, meaning, and communication. The second chapter talks about environmental quality, while the third chapter deals with environmental cognition. Next, the book tackles the importance and nature of environmental perception. Chapter 5 discusses the city in terms of social, cultural, and territorial variables. Chapter 6 details the distinction between associational and perceptual worlds.
The book will be of great interest to urban planners and government policymakers. Researchers and practitioners of sociological and behavioral science will also benefit from the book.