Wednesday, March 30, 2011

environmental psychology-part three

The historical background of environmental psychology is not known.

The person who first mentioned this term was Willy Helpach.

The book entitled Geopsyche, discusses how the sun and moon can influence human activity, color, and form effects, etc.

Other scientists of this field were Kurt Lewin, Jakob Von Uexküll, Egon Brunswik.

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Monday, March 28, 2011

environmental psychology-part three

With such a reasonable human model, adequate environment models can be restored. These models are favorable to model reasonable behavior, predict outcomes in case of non-realization of favorable conditions.

It is also important to analyze and diagnose problems.

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

environmental psychology-part two

Environmental psychology was created to solve certain problems related between humans and environment.

During the solution of these problems, implication of a human model is necessary to predict environmental conditions in which human beings will behave.

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environmental pshychology-part one

The definition of environmental psychology is that this field is an interdisciplinary field, targeting interactions between humans and the surroundings.

In this case the term environment is broadly defined, including social, natural, built, learning and informational environments.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Crime prevention through environmental design(part three)

Defensible Space Approach was revised and additional built environment approches were added to that concept, supported by CPTED.

source:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Crime prevention through environmental design(part two)

Founder and inventor of CPETD system was criminologist C.Ray Jeffrey.

An architect Oscar Newman developed the approach "Defensible Space".

Previously Schlomo Angel, Elizabeth Wood, Jane Jacobs worked previously on that subject.

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Monday, March 21, 2011

Crime prevention through environmental design(part one)

Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is a multy-disciplinary approach for the deterioration of delinquency and criminal behavior through environmental design.

Strategically CPTED tends to be able to influence malicious decisions before criminal act is committed. From 2004, CPTED acts occur within built environment.
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