Social scientists
or psychologists links between
the design of the built environment and our behavior, both individually and
socially
Designing and
constructing environments in which people live and work, architects and
planners are necessarily involved in influencing human behavior.
While Sommer
(1969, p.3) asserted that the architect “in his training and practice, learns
to look at buildings without people in them,” it is clear that from, for
example, Howard’s Garden Cities of To-morrow (1902), through
Le Corbusier Ville
Contemporaine
and La
Ville radieuse,
to the Smithson's’ ‘Streets in the sky’, there has been a long-standing thread
of recognition that the way people live their lives is directly linked to the
designed environments in which they live. Whether the explicit intention to
influence behavior drives the design process—architectural determinism
(Broadly, 1966: see future blog post ‘POSIWID and determinism’)—or whether the
behavior consequences of design decisions are only revealed and considered as
part of a post-occupancy evaluation (e.g. Zeisel, 2006) or by social scientists
or psychologists studying the impact of a development, there are links between
the design of the built environment and our behavior, both individually and
socially
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