Designing for human behavior : architecture and the behavioral sciences / edited by Jon Lang [and three others]

Includes bibliographical references.

Series editor's preface -- Preface -- PART ONE: EMERGING ISSUES IN ARCHITECTURE -- Professional and client : an emerging collaborative relationship -- The architectural belief system system and social behavior -- The social order of environment design -- A model of designing process -- An early summary of the "The timeless way of building" -- The human being and the institutional building -- Environmental psychology and the design professions -- PART TWO: FUNDAMENTALS PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR -- Theories of perception and the "formal' design -- The Gestalt psychology of expression in architecture -- Psychological factors in the use of light and lighting in buildings -- The house as a symbol of the self -- Predicting the meaning of architecture -- Architecture in the head: cognitive mapping -- The mental image and design -- Behavior settings as data-generating units for the environmental planner and architect -- The physical setting as a factor in group function and process -- Looking back at a personal space -- Meeting man's basic spatial needs in artificial environments -- PART THREE: OBTAINING AND USING BEHAVIORAL INFORMATION -- Surveys, questionnaires, and intervews -- Measuring attributes of the visual environment -- Unobstrusive measures: their nature and utility for architects -- The evaluation of environments: behavioral observations in an undersea habitat -- Experimental methods in environmental design research -- Fundamentals values in planning with the nonpaying client -- Behavioral analysis and environmental programming for offices -- Evaluating buildings on a performance basis -- Building evaluation, user satisfaction, and design -- PART FOUR: CONCLUSION -- Arm folding and architecture: allied arts -- PART FIVE: Bibliography -- Designing for human behavior: a reference bibliography -- Index.