With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature

by Rachel Kaplan, Stephen Kaplan, Robert Ryan

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

Genres: Landscape Architecture, Psychology, Design

239 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1998

Reviews

[David Welch · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book about the principles of designing good natural spaces — parks, yards, gardens, trails, etc. — as well as how to make good maps and how to involve stakeholders in a productive way. The chapters are organized (very smartly) based on the notion of patterns, as popularized in Christopher Alexander's masterwork, "A Pattern Language".

The book is informed by decades of the authors' research into the ways that humans are attracted to nature, as well as other human characteristics, but it is written in plain and concise language.

Overall: this is a brilliant, brilliant book, and it's a shame that it seems to be obscure and out-of-print. I hope that changes over time. It's also unintentionally one of the best books about video game level design ever written.

[Moaz Abou zaid · Rating 4 out of 5]

*ما الذي يشعر به الناس عندما يستخدمون التصميم او المشروع الجميل الذي نعمل عليه كمصممين ومخططين؟
* مهما كان المخطط بارعا وجميلا وفاخرا ويحقق الكفاءة والفاعلية وكل الاهداف التخطيطية والتصميمية , ولكن لا يشعر المستخدم فيه بالراحة النفسية فهو والعدم سواء
*شكرا لجامعة الملك سعود على الترجمة
*الترجمة لايمكن ان تعبر بصدق عن الموضوع وخصوصا في بعض التعبيرات الوظيفية
الكتاب جميل جدا ومفيد حتى لغير المصممين

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