With People in Mind
Design And Management Of Everyday Nature
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
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I - By Way of Explanation: People and Nature 1
Chapter 1 - The Use of Patterns 3
Chapter 2 - Some Human Characteristics 7
Part II - Meeting the Challenges 29
Chapter 3 - Fears and Preferences 31
Chapter 4 - Way-finding 49
Chapter 5 - Restorative Environments 67
Part III - Design and Management Opportunities 79
Chapter 6 - Gateways and Partitions 81
Chapter 7 - Trails and Locomotion 89
Chapter 8 - Views and Vistas 99
Chapter 9 - Places and Their Elements 109
Part IV - With People in Mind 121
Chapter 10 - Engaging People 123
Chapter 11 - Putting It Together 147
Appendix: Matrix of Patterns and Themes 163
Readings: By Subject 167
Readings: Alphabetic 195
Photo Credits 217
Index 219"
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