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Porteous, J. Douglas

Environment & behavior : planning and everyday urban life / J. Douglas Porteous. - Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1977. - xiv, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

1. Behavior, the urban environment, and planning --
Part I. Behavior: --
2. Territoriality --
3. Microspace behavior : personal space --
4. Mesospace behavior : home base --
5. Macrospace behavior : home range --
Part II. Environment: --
6. Environments --
7. The phenomenal environment : human --
8. The phenomenal environment : physical --
9. Personal environments : behavioral and experiential --
10. The contextual environment : life cycle and life level --
11. The contextual environment : life-style --
Part III. Planning: --
12. Planners versus the planned-for --
13. Planning for people --
14. Planning by and with people.

ISBN: 0201058677

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology, Urban.
Environmental psychology.
City planning.
Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Architecture--Human factors.

LC Class. No.: BF353 / .E47