Moser, Gabriel

Pol, Enric

Bernard, Yvonne

Bonnes, Mirilia

Corraliza, José A.

Giuliani, Maria Vittoria

People, Places, and Sustainability.

Göttingen

2002

0889372632

Sustainable development involves satisfying the needs of the present generation without compromising the chances for future generations. Quality of life thus plays an important part in determining how we can achieve sustainable development. What are the perspectives for the 21st century? People, Places and Sustainability presents new approaches to traditional issues of people-environment studies and environmental psychology, looked at in the light of sustainability.

The contributions brought together in this book cover the main issues addressed by the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS), which includes psychologists, sociologists, architects, and designers.

The book is divided into four main sections:
Urban Change and Sustainability discusses the cultural and historical references as models for sustainable cities. Today′s metropolises host increasingly culturally heterogeneous populations.
Community, Attachment and Identity looks at the conditions for their sustainable development in the light of communities′ participation, through processes of identification and place attachment. People′s relations to their immediate residential surroundings, their workplaces, or learning environments, significantly influence their health and well-being.
The contributions to Proximal and Specific Spaces concern requirements of environmental layout and design which enable them to become sustainable.
Finally, Global Environment Issues and Ecological Behavior points at ways to promote ecologically favorable behavior in order to achieve the conditions required for sustainable development.

Introduction

Sustainability, people and places: An agenda for the future
MOSER G.

I. Urban Change and Sustainability

1. Representation of the city and image of the centre in two different urban structures: A modern and a traditional town
MARCHAND D.

2. Social and architectural legibility of the city
NENCI A.M., DE ROSA A.M.S., TESTA G., & CARRUS G.

3. City of Cent$. Formalization and urban change
ZIADA H.

4. Dubai: The search for identity
BOUSSAA D.

5. The significance of the memory of urban spaces
BRIERLEY E.S.

6. Village and community: Social models for sustainable urban development
BRINDLEY T.

7. Sustainable urban communities: History defying cultural conflict
EDY Y.

8. The failure of man-environment studies in influencing design decisions
GUR S.O. & BEKLEYEN A.

II. Community, Attachment and Identity

1. One attachment or more?
GIULIANI V., FERRARA E., & BARABOTTI S.

2. Cohousing as a basis for social connectedness and ecological sustainability
TORRES M., HASELL M.J., & SCANZONI J.

3. Tradition, change and continuity: A dialectical analysis of social and spatial patterns in home environments
TURGUT H. & CAHANTIMUR A.I.

4. Sustainable design: A question of community (visual) awareness
ROMICE O.

5. Accessibility or obstacles? Children's independent mobility and valuation of the outdoor environment
HEURLIN-NORINDER M.

6. Ethnic food and ethnic enclaves
DRUCKER S.

7. Unity or fragmentation: Is there a center in person-environment studies?
FRANCESCATO G.

III. Proximal and Specific Spaces

1. Work and home: Spatial implications of income generation in the domestic setting
KELLETT P. & BISHOP W.

2. The influence of a specific urban planning on sonic environment
ROZEC V

3. The predictors of the feeling of crowding and crampedness in large residential buildings
BORDAS-ASTUDILLO E, MOCH A., & HERMAND D.

4. Post occupancy evaluation of university educational buildings
GABR H.S. & AL-SALLA K.

5. Social sustainability and changes in environments designed for young children: The case of the French day-care centres
LEGENDRE A.

6. Occupational accident scenarios and work spaces in industrial environments
RIBEIRO T.

IV. Global Environment Issues and Ecological Behavior

1. Overcoming expertocracy through sustainable development: The case of wastewater
CRAIG A.

2. Myths of nature and environmental management strategies. A field study on energy reductions in traffic and transport
POORTINGA W., STEG L., & VLEK C.

3. Environmental attitudes and diffusion of innovations: The energy saving case
MARTIN R., CORRALIZA J.A., & BERENGUER J.

4. Predicting environmental attitudes and behavior
GARCA-MIRA R., REAL J.E., DURAN RODRIGUEZ, M., & ROMAY MARTINEZ, J.

5. Activating and inhibiting psychological factors related to sorting behaviour
MATHEAU-POLICE A.