Spaces for Children The Built Environment and Child Development

As a developmental psychologist with a strong interest in children's re­ sponse to the physical environment, I take particular pleasure in writing a foreword to the present volume. It provides impressive evidence of the con­ cern that workers in environmental psychology and environmental design...

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Other Authors: David, T.G. (Editor), Weinstein, C.S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
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505 0 |a I. Introduction -- 1 The Built Environment and Children’s Development -- II. The Impact of the Built Environment on Children’s Development: Research, Theory, and Recollection -- 2 The Development of Place Identity in the Child -- 3 The Physical Environment and Cognitive Development in Child-Care Centers -- 4 The Environment as Organizer of Intent in Child-Care Settings -- 5 The Institutions in Children’s Lives -- III. Designing Spaces for Children -- 6 Designing Settings for Infants and Toddlers -- 7 The Developmental Implications of Home Environments -- 8 Designing Preschool Classrooms to Support Development: Research and Reflection -- 9 Designing Playgrounds for Able and Disabled Children -- IV. Involving Users in the Design Process -- 10 Children’s Participation in Planning and Design: Theory, Research, and Practice -- 11 Imaging and Creating Alternative Environments with Children -- 12 Children’s Spaces: Designing Configurations of Possibilities -- V. Conclusions -- 13 Developmental Perspectives on Designing for Development -- 14 Children’s Environments: Implications for Design and Design Research 
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520 |a As a developmental psychologist with a strong interest in children's re­ sponse to the physical environment, I take particular pleasure in writing a foreword to the present volume. It provides impressive evidence of the con­ cern that workers in environmental psychology and environmental design are displaying for the child as a user of the designed environment and indi­ cates a recognition of the need to apply theory and findings from develop­ mental and environmental psychology to the design of environments for children. This seems to me to mark a shift in focus and concern from the earlier days of the interaction between environmental designers and psy­ chologists that occurred some two decades ago and provided the impetus for the establishment of environmental psychology as a subdiscipline. Whether because children-though they are consumers of designed environments­ are not the architect's clients or because it seemed easier to work with adults who could be asked to make ratings of environmental spaces and comment on them at length, a focus on the child in interaction with en­ vironments was comparatively slow in developing in the field of environ­ ment and behavior. As the chapters of the present volume indicate, that situation is no longer true today, and this is a change that all concerned with the well-being and optimal functioning of children will welcome