With Man In Mind: An Interdisciplinary Prospectus for Environmental Design - Couverture rigide

Perin, Constance

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262160420 ISBN 13 : 9780262160421

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1970

Synopsis

Although a responsible and welcome critical literature in the social sciences has in recent years been measuring the human costs of urban renewal and environmental degradation, telling the designer what to avoid does not necessarily enlighten him about what to do. The designers too have been transforming their attitudes, moving away from the rhetorical toward the socially aware and the scientific. The two groups are readier to meet now than ever before, and if they do so in the ways put forth in this book - with man in mind - then we will be better able to bring our environmental technologies into human service. With Man In Mind is not, however a handbook or manual of techniques, ready-made; it is instead an argument for changing the terms of our discourse about man and environment so that we can do interdisciplinary research on questions that matter. With the questioning of the ideas in this book, collaboration may finally begin.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Constance Perin has been a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs. She was managing editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Planners for five years and has worked at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Office of Metropolitan Development.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1970
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262160420
• ISBN 13: 9780262160421
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible