Environmental psychology 2500-PLF1015
Lecture 1. Environmental psychology as an interdisciplinary research area. Why study environmental psychology? History of environmental research. What is specific for environmental psychology? Key figures in environmental psychology
Lecture 2. Environmental perception. Theories of Brunswik and Gibson. Way finding and way losing. Spatial cognition. Cognitive maps and their measurement. Legible cities (K. Lynch).
Lecture 3 & 4. Environmental aesthetics. Evolutionary approaches to environmental aesthetics (S. & R. Kaplan, J. Appleton). Experimental aesthetics (D. Berlyne). Affective appraisals of environment (J. Russell). What are good environments? Post-occupancy evaluations.
Lecture 5. Privacy. Theories of privacy. Personal space and its types (E. Hall). Sociopetal and sociofugal spaces (R. Sommer). Privacy regulation (I. Altman).
Lecture 6 & 7. Territoriality. Types of territories. Architectural apaches to human territories. Sex differences in territorial behaviors. Behavioral sink – does it happen with people, too? Control over territories (O. Newman). Gated communities.
Lecture 8. The timeless way of building – Christopher Alexander and the pattern language.
Lecture 9. Home sweet home. Meaning of home. How does it feel to be homeless? Types of houses in contemporary world. Place and its meaning. Place attachment and place identity. Predictors of place attachment. Physical environment and residence satisfaction. Is place still important in the globalizing world?
Lecture 10. Designing institutional environments. Learning environments. Schools and universities. Museums. Zoological gardens.
Lecture 11. Designing institutional environments. Work environments. Offices. Hospitals and houses for the elderly. Prisons.
Lecture 12. Cities in history. Evolution of cities. Cities of tomorrow and great urban utopias. Cities of the 3rd World.
Lecture 13. Behavior in cities. Is city a source of evil? Urbanofilia and urbanophobia. Density and behavior. Crime and sense of security in cities. Why don’t they help – theory by S. Milgram.
Lecture 14. Transformation of cities. Virtualization of metropolitan life. Retail and privatization of public space. Suburbanization and urban sprawl. Urban discontinuities. Depopulated downtown. Fences and gates. Comparing cities: City Development Index.
Lecture 13. Cities of tomorrow revisited. Revitalization of downtowns.
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Bibliography
P.A. Bell, Th.C. Greene, J.D. Fisher, A. Baum (2004). Psychologia Środowiskowa. Gdańsk: Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne (wybrane rozdziały)
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