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With People in Mind: Design And Management Of Everyday Nature [Paperback]

Rachel Kaplan (Author), Stephen Kaplan (Author), Robert Ryan (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1559635940 | ISBN-13: 978-1559635943 | Publication Date: March 1, 1998 | Edition: 1

Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing. Successful design and management requires knowledge of both people and environments."With People in Mind" explores how to design and manage areas of "everyday nature" -- parks and open spaces, corporate grounds, vacant lots and backyard gardens, fields and forests -- in ways that are beneficial to and appreciated by humans. Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, leading researchers in the field of environmental psychology, along with Robert Ryan, a landscape architect and urban planner, provide a conceptual framework for considering the human dimensions of natural areas and offer a fresh perspective on the subject. The authors examine.physical aspects of natural settings that enhance preference and reduce fear ways to facilitate way-finding how to create restorative settings that allow people to recover from the stress of daily demands landscape elements that are particularly important to human needs techniques for obtaining useful public input

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Paperback: 239 pages
Publisher: Island Press; 1 edition (March 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559635940
ISBN-13: 978-1559635943
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
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Environmental Design Research Association: 1st, 1969: Conference Proceedings (Community development series ; v. 18) by Henry Sanoff on 5 pages
Environmental Psychology by Bell on 4 pages
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Greenways for America (Creating the North American Landscape) by Charles E. Little in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Advances in Environmental Psychology. Volume 1: The Urban Environment by Andrew Baum in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities by Howard Frumkin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Journal of Social Issues, Promoting Environmentalism (Volume 56) by Lynnette C. Zelezny on page 143
Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature by Susan Clayton in Back Matter
Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection by Stephen R. Kellert in Back Matter
Ecological Planning: A Historical and Comparative Synthesis (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design) by Forster Ndubisi in Back Matter

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