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Environment and Behavior Studies Emergence of Intellectual Traditions HUIIlan Behavior and EnvironIIlent ADVANCES IN THEORY AND RESEARCH Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3: Children and the Environment Volume 4: Environment and Culture Volume 5: Transportation and Behavior Volume 6: Behavior and the Natural Environment Volume 7: Elderly People and the Environment Volume 8: Home Environments Volume 9: Neighborhood and Community Environments Volume 10: Public Places and Spaces Volume 11: Environment and Behavior Studies: Emergence of Intellectual Traditions Environment and Behavior Studies Emergence of Intellectual Traditions Edited by IRWIN ALTMAN University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah and KATHLEEN CHRISTENSEN The Graduate School and University Center City University of New York New York, New York PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK AND LONDON Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Environment and behavior studies, emergence of intellectual traditions I edited by Irwin Altman and Kathleen Christensen. p. cm. -- (Human behav i or and env i ron.ent ; v. 11) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-7946-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-7944-7 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4684-7944-7 1. Environ~ental psychology--History. I. Altman, Irwin. II. Christensen, Kathleen. III. Series. BF353.HB5 vol. 11 155.9 s--dc20 [159] 90-709B CIP © 1990 Plenum Press, New York Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990 A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 233 Spring Street, New York, N.Y. 10013 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical. photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher This volume is dedicated to the Environmental Design Research Association in honor of its twentieth anniversary, 1969-1989 Articles Planned for Volume 12 PLACE ATTACHMENT Editors: Irwin Altman and Setha Low Horne as a Workplace in the Lives of Women SHERRY BOLAND AHRENTZEN Attachment to Possessions RUSSELL W. BELK Disruptions in Attachment BARBARA B. BROWN Childhood Place Attachments LOUISE CHAWLA Thresholds to an Alternate Realm: Mapping the Chaseworld in Lebanon State Forest MARY HUFFORD Community Attachment DAVID M. HUMMON Transcendence of Place: The Role of La Placeta in Valencia's Las Fallas DENISE L. LAWRENCE Symbolic Theories of Place Attachment: Cultural Meaning in the Costa Rican Plaza SETHAM. LOW Attachment to Horne CLARE COOPER MARCUS Space Talks: Neighboring in Africa DEBORAH PELLOW Roots, Views and Bonds: Attachment to the Larger Landscape ROBERT B. RILEY Place Attachment among the Elderly ROBERT RUBINSTEIN AND PATRICIA PARMELEE Horne Gardens, Place Attachment and the Experience of Time JONATHAN D. SIME Cont ribu tors IRWIN ALTMAN • Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 ROGER G. BARKER • Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Law rence, Kansas 66045 MICHAEL BRILL • The Buffalo Organization for Social and Technological Inno vation, 1479 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14216, and School of Archi tecture, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214 DAVID CANTER • Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, England KENNETH H. CRAIK • Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, Uni versity of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 M. POWELL LAWTON • Philadelphia Geriatric Center, 5301 Old York Road, Phil adelphia, Pennsylvania 19141 CLARE COOPER MARCUS • Department of Architecture and Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 HAROLD M. PROSHANSKY • Environmental Psychology Program, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036 AMOS RAPOPORT • School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 LEANNE G. RIVLIN· Environmental Psychology Program, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036 ROBERT SOMMER • Department of Psychology and Center for Consumer Re search, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616 ix x Contributors SEYMOUR WAPNER • Heinz Werner Institute for Developmental Analysis, Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, Mas sachusetts 01610-1477 ERVIN H. ZUBE • School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Ari zona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Preface This eleventh volume in the series departs from the pattern of earlier volumes. Some of those volumes addressed research, design, and policy topics in terms of environmental settings, for example, homes, communities, neighborhoods, and public places. Others focused on environmental users, for example, chil dren and the elderly. The present volume examines the field of environment and behavior studies itself in the form of intellectual histories of some of its most productive and still visible senior participants. In so doing we hope to provide readers with a grand sweep of the field-its research and design content, methodology, institutions, and past and future trajectories-through the experiences and intellectual histories of its participants. Why intellectual histories? Several factors led to the decision to launch this project. For one, 1989 was an anniversary and commemorative year for the Environmental Design Research Association, perhaps the major and most long-standing interdisciplinary organization of environment and behavior re searchers and practitioners. Established in 1969, this organization has been the vehicle for generations of researchers and practitioners from many disciplines to come together annually to exchange ideas, present papers, and develop professional and personal relationships. It held its first and twentieth meetings in North Carolina, with the twentieth conference substantially devoted to dis cussions of the past, present, and future of the field-a taking stock, so to speak. Thus it seemed appropriate to launch a volume on intellectual histories at this significant juncture in the life of the field. Moreover, the field of environment and behavior studies has matured, with many of its participants having achieved a sophisticated perspective on their own work and on the field as a whole. Many of them come from different disciplines and have diverse backgrounds and values. As a result, peers, juniors, and emerging generations can profit from the experiences and varying perspectives of those who contributed in significant and sustained ways to environment and behavior studies. In addition, it is likely that newer genera tions will have less and less opportunity to interact directly with senior partici pants, to learn about the opportunities and challenges they faced, and to share in those experiences. Those intellectual experiences need to be recorded-not only for archival and historical reasons, but for the promise and potential those xi xii Preface careers illustrate, and for newer generations to capitalize on as they set their own future course. The focus of the chapters in the volume is on the intellectual histories of a diverse, still active, and intellectually influential and alive group of early con tributors to the field of environment and behavior studies. Although some of the accounts of the researchers, theorists, and practitioners who wrote essays for this volume are chronological, the emphasis is nevertheless on the develop ment of their ideas and work; the twists and turns of their professional careers; and the people, places, and settings within which they worked. The chapters are diverse in format and writing style, but we hope that they illustrate the vast diversity of perspectives, content, and intellectual interests of environment and behavior participants. And, most important, the intellectual histories illu strate the challenges, opportunities, and breadth of subject matter in the en vironment and behavior field, as well as the need for all people to learn about and act upon environmental problems. The environmental issues that will face us in the 1990s and in the soon-to-be twenty-first century need the work and commitment of the best minds that we can attract to environment and behavior studies. The essays in this volume are a testimonial to what a handful of people began and accomplished-men and women who can serve as beacons and role models for future generations as they face their own unique problems. Volume 12 in the series, Place Attachment, now in preparation, will address people's attachment to an array of environmental places and settings, varying from small-scale objects to homes, communities, and neighborhoods, and be yond to larger-scale urban and regional settings. Setha Low, City University of New York, joins me in editing this next volume in the Human Behavior and Environment series. Because of its two-decade commitment to environment and behavior stud ies, its nurturing of the free expression of a diversity of views, and its egalitarian and supportive values for all environment and behavior researchers and practitioners, this volume is dedicated to the Environmental Design Re search Association. May it prosper in the next twenty years of its life. IRWIN ALTMAN
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