Dreams, Reality, and the Future of Environmental Essay

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Dreams, Reality, and the Future of Environmental Psychology by Richard Sommer.

Origins of a New Field

Need to understand social and historical context of the discipline

started in U.S. And Canada and later diffused; related to Roger Barker on psychological ecology and Daniel Berlyne on environmental aesthetics ref to charisma (extraordinary power)

Intellectual climate of the 1960s

challenging traditional assumptions of allocation of power, resources, nature of society behavioral science had not yet predicted

Human Rights Movement

African-Americans and other disenfranchised groups fighting for justice affected ethics and design considerations (eg Brown v Board of Education)

Ecology Movement

Started by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 -- impact on policymakers, public, science-refers to pollution-leads to greater protection of wilderness

But this time not just concerned with wilderness but also urban space, population control, energy

Leads to creation of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 1960s -- the environmental decade.

43.2.3 The State of Architecture

Construction boom after WWII -- putting up buildings anywhere, anywhere

Architects starting to question their role -- new architecture was "faceless anonymous pieces of glass brick skyscapers that few people liked and many resented"

Clients -- anonymous corporate boards, government agencies, misfits, and residential construction for developers, engineers, banks and not residents!

But architecture lacked a research tradition except in structural science, materials, etc. -- no philosophy; no meaning to "architectural research"

43.3 Internal Criticism of Psychology

criticism due to narrowness of problems, too much emphasis on experimental method, neglect of environmental factors

43.

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4 Response from Organized Psychology and Architecture

leadership in American Psychological Association and American Institute of Architects-started to find common ground and develop training programs together

How to view it? Independent area of study (human ecology, or envirotecture); new specialty; part of existing specialty of psych or existing specialty of design; or none?

Environmental Studies formed as its own interdisciplinary study (reaction to limitations of old field)

Environmental Psychology formed as subdiscipline of psychology

Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) -- views environmental study as its own discipline

Division of Population and Environmental Psychology of the APA -- environmental psychology is placed within the umbrella of psychology

43.5 Spread of Influence

43.5.1 Within Psychology

Was easy to start new programs in universities at first, but stopped in 1980s with diminishing funds

Has been absorbed into other disciplines

43.5.2 Linkage….....

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