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18 reviews(Ebook) What Americans Build and Why Psychological Perspectives 1st Edition by Ann Sloan Devlin - Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9780511789397 ,0511789394
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ISBN 10: 0511789394
ISBN 13: 9780511789397
Author: Ann Sloan Devlin
(Ebook) What Americans Build and Why Psychological Perspectives 1st Edition Table of contents:
1 The Landscape of Housing: Suburbia, New Urbanism, and McMansions
Personal reflections
I’m from the government and i’m here to help you
Our Roads
My Interstate Highway Experience
Housing Policy
New towns: what’s not to like?
The allure of small towns
The history and principles of new urbanism
Classic examples of new urbanism
Seaside, Florida
Celebration, Florida
The Kentlands, Maryland
A National Phenomenon?
New urbanism and health
Criticisms of new urbanist communities
Research on new urbanist communities
Social Science Research: A Slippery Slope
Studies of New Urbanist Communities
Research on Cost and Trade-offs
Challenges to new urbanism
Mcmansions: bigger? better?
My, HowWe Have Grown
The backlash
Teardowns and Pop-ups
Closing comments
2 The Landscape of Health Care: High Tech and Humanistic
Personal reflections
History of hospital design
Hopkins
Florence nightingale
Hospitals evolve: shape, style, and the impact of the elevator
The government, the ward, and the room
Shape of wards
Privacy and the patient room: room for one or more?
Design guidelines on room occupancy
Unbundled services and ambulatory facilities
Expert opinion
The patient as consumer: competition and preference
Patient dissatisfaction
The appealing setting effect: how it looks matters!
One woman’s vision of patient-centered health care: planetree
Nature, artwork, and patient recovery
The need for evidence-based design
What does the future hold?
Technology, complementary and alternative medicine, and concierge medicine
Complementary and Alternative Care
Concierge Medicine
Physician Honesty and Patient Care
Closing comments
3 The Landscape of Schools: Big Schools, Small Schools
Personal reflections
A word or two about school buildings and architectural determinism
Spaces Can Make a Difference
School size: the contributions of roger barker and paul gump
The logic behind large high schools
Getting to school
Today’s school challenges
Alternative perspectives on school buildings
Our children, our school buildings: current statistics
What Are We Spending?
Principles to shape schools and school design
School Design: A Closer Look
Examples of “New” Schools
Is smaller better?
But is it really the size that matters?
Why isn’t every community building small schools?
School Size and Siting Regulations
Will communities pay for small schools? making the case
Are small learning communities a solution?
Groton’s solution
A final word about schools and outcomes
4 The Landscape of Work: Visible or Virtual?
Personal reflections
Nomenclature: spaces and their names
Herman miller: truth in advertising
The office: its history
Robert propst and the action of.ce
Some reflections on herman miller: then and now
The “problem”
Why open plan? why cubicle? the impact of the open plan
Reflections on the 40th anniversary of the cubicle: a humorous interlude
What the research tells us about open plans and cubicles
The role of territoriality
Is productivity enhanced in open plans?
Status, culture, and office design
Personalization
Status Symbols
Work, buildings, and cubicles: bad for our health?
The stress of getting to and from work
Bosti and its contributions
Solutions?
Telecommuting, telework, and the move to mobility
Definitions (and more de.nitions)
What the government data tell us
The justification and implementation of telework
Technology and telework
Resistance to telework
Telework and the elasticity of time
The future
5 The Landscape of Retail: Big Box and Main Street
Personal reflections
The evolution of shopping malls: their birth, death, and transformation
The first malls
What to do at the mall? anything you want
The mall of america and other “large” shopping venues
Who uses the mall and why?
Malls have personalities
Teenagers and the elderly
The end of the mall as we know it?
Malls and new urbanism
Mundaneness: the danger in sameness
The shopping center and the role of the big box store
Malls outside the united states
Online shopping
New directions
A developer’s perspective
Ending reflections
Closing comments
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