Readings on the Psychology of Place: Selected Works of David Canter

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Acknowledgments
Preface
Part 1 Origins of the theory of place
	1 Architectural psychology
	2 Office size: An example of psychological research in architecture
	3 Need for a theory of function in architecture
	4 Should we treat building users as subjects or objects?
	5 Judgements of people and their rooms
	6 Distance estimation in cities
	7 The psychology of place
Part 2 Elaborating the theory of place
	8 The purposive evaluation of places: A facet approach
	9 Putting situations in their place
	10 Intention, meaning and structure: Social action in its physical context
	11 Action and place: An existential dialectic
Part 3 Methodology – Studying place experience
	12 A non-reactive study of room usage in modern Japanese apartments
	13 Picture or place? A multiple sorting study of landscape
	14 Revealing the conceptual systems of places
Part 4 Applications – The theory of place in action
	15 Intentionality and fatality during the King’s Cross underground fire
	16 The environmental range of serial rapists
	17 Why do we leave it so late? Response to environmental threat and the rules of place
	18 Creating places without designers
Bibliography – Selection of David Canter’s Architectural/Environmental Psychology Publications
Index