Human Consequences of Crowding

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1979
ISBN: 978-1-4684-3601-3
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 595 g

Reihe: Nato Conference Series

This volume contains papers selected from among those submitted to the Symposium on "Human Consequences of Crowding", held in Antalya, Turkey, 6-11 November, 1977. Realizing an international symposium of this scope, and preparing the manu­ script for pUblication afterwards, necessitated the assistance and support of so many people that it is impossible to name all but a few of them. First of all, we are par­ ticularly grateful to the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO (Special Programme Panel on Human Factors), and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, the co-sponsors of the Symposium. Dr. Robert B. Bechtel of the Environ­ mental Research and Development Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, U. S. A. • joined the editors of the present volume in planning the Symposium, and acted as a "point of contact" for the Americas and the Pacific Region. An advisory board consisting of Mithat

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gurkaynak, M. R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Conceptual Dimensions of Crowding.- The Human Consequences of Crowding: Where We Stand, Where We Should Be Going.- Environmental Planning in a Democratic Society.- A Politico-psychological Perspective on Crowding.- The Task Interference Model of Crowding.- Crowding: An Ecological Approach.- Individual Variation in Perception, Adaptation, and Consequent Crowding.- A Systematic Approach to High Density Settings: Social and Physical Environmental Factors.- Spatial Dimensions of Crowding: An Analysis by the Density Gradients for Ankara, 1965-70.- II: Experimental Studies of Crowding Consequences.- Consequences of Crowding on Children.- Human and Non-human Components of Crowding.- Reactions to Personal Space Invasion: Experimental Tests of an Attributional Analysis.- Social Crowding and the Complexity of the Built Environment: A Theoretical and Experimental Framework.- Experimental Investigations of the Determinants and Personal Consequences of Crowding.- Social Determinants of Crowding.- Crowding and Environmental Control.- Individual and Cultural Differences in Coping with Crowds and Crowded Conditions.- III: Multivariate Studies of Perception of the Crowded Environment.- A Multidimensional Analysis of Subjective Crowding.- Conceptual Dimensions of Crowding: A Multidimensional Analysis.- Multivariate Dimensions in the Perception of Public Areas by Turkish University Students.- IV: Case Studies of Crowding Consequences.- Shared Spaces in Crowded Areas.- Community and Behavior in Urban Environments.- The Impact of Social Environmental Factors on Fertility Behavior in Turkey and in the United States and Its Imphcations for Crowding.- Impact of Family Crowding on the Design Problems of Dwelling Units within Turkey.- Crowding in Households: Chicago, Illinois versus Istanbul,Turkey.- Cluster Layouts in High Density Urban Situations.- References.- Index of Names.