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The latest multi-disciplinary research in diversity - the key concept for people-environment relation in urban settings.
Biological and human-cultural diversity are crucial aspects of sustainable life on this planet, a fact that was recognized when the United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. Managing diversities in urban contexts, where more than half of the world's population currently live, represents a fundamental aim for sustainable urban development. If this is to be achieved it requires collaboration among different scientific and technical disciplines, many of which are represented in this book.
Drawing on a diversity of epistemological, theoretical, and methodological approaches is key to understanding people-environment relations and for promoting the quality of urban life. The volume is organized around different research themes, relevant for understanding current trends and future developments in the study of people-urban environment relations, with an emphasis on the key concept of diversity, which is explored in relation to
- Theoretical and methodological approaches
- Visual processes and urban landscapes
- Urban green spaces
- People's lifestyles and urban sustainability
- Social groups and inclusive urban environments
Table des matières
Introduction
Environmental and Social Diversities in the City: An Introduction by Mirilia Bonnes, Marino Bonaiuto, Anna Maria Nenci,
and Giuseppe Carrus
I Diversity in Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Analysing Urban Diversity: The Pertinence of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Contributions by Roderick Lawrence
Regarding the Question of Evidence: Current Worldviews in Environmental Design Research and Practice by Keith Diaz
Moore and Lyn Geboy
Time, Market Pressures, and Urban Regeneration: A Feasible Mix? by Ombretta Romice, Robert Rogerson, Kevin Thwaites,
Mark Greaves, Rolf Roscher, and David Hassan
Regulating Augmented Public Spaces by Susan Drucker and Gary Gumpert
II Diversity in Urban Landscapes and Perceptual Approaches
Visual Information in the Built Environment and its Effect on Wayfinding and Explorative Behaviour
by Ruth Conroy Dalton, Renato Troffa, John Zacharias, and Christoph Hoelscher
Perceptual Constancy Between Users from Different Countries in Commercial and Historic Streetscapes
by Adriana Portella
The Influence of Environmental Attributes on Social Interaction Between Different Socioeconomic Groups
by Paula Silva Gambim and Maria Cristina Dias Lay
A Description of Incongruous Architectures and Related Observations by Paolo Bonaiuto, Valeria Biasi, Gabriele Bonaiuto,
and Anna Maria Giannini
III Diversity in Urban Green Spaces and Well-Being
Green Areas and Housing's Habitability by A. Maritza Landázuri, Terence R. Lee, Alejandra Terán, and Serafín J. Mercado
Green Spaces, Vegetation, and Well-Being in the Housing Environment by Antônio Tarcísio da Luz Reis
and Alexandra Barcelos
Soundscapes Within Urban Parks: Their Restorative Value by Sarah R. Payne
Are ''Attractive'' Built Places as Restorative and Emotionally Positive as Natural Places in the Urban Environment?
by Ferdinando Fornara
IV Diversity in Lifestyles and Urban Sustainability
A Room with a View by Nancy H. Blossom and Elizabeth L. Blossom
Consumption and Electric Power at Home: Its Relationship with the Socio-Demographic Level by Claudia García-Landa
and María Montero
Collective Motivation for Managing Our Common Environment by Carmen Tabernero and Bernardo Hernández
The Ecological Concern in Consumer's Choices of Organic and Genetically Modified Food Products by Pierluigi Caddeo
V Diversity in Social Groups and Inclusive Urban Environments
Children in the Neighbourhood: Sense of Safety and Well-Being by Laura Migliorini and Paola Cardinali
Fencing in the Bay? Place Attachment, Social Representations of Energy Technologies, and the Protection of Restorative
Environments by Patrick Devine-Wright
From Divided Space to Shared Space: How Might Environmental Psychology Help Us to Understand and Overcome the
Tenacity of Racial Segregation? by John Dixon, Kevin Durrheim and Colin Tredoux
