People, Places, and Sustainability

Introduction: sustainability, people and places - an agenda for the future. Urban change and sustainability: social and architectural legibility of the city city of cent$ - formalization and urban change Dubai - the search for identity the significance of the memory of urban spaces village and community as models for the sustainable city sustainable urban communities - history defying cultural conflict the failure of man-environment studies in influencing design decisions. Community, attachment and identity: one attachment or more? designing a sense of community - a cohousing case study tradition, change and continuity - a dialectical analysis of social and spatial patterns in home environments sustainable design - a question of community (visual) awareness accessibility or obstacles? ethnic food and the immigrant experience - from city to suburb unity or fragmentation - is there a centre in person-environment studies? Proximal and specific spaces: work and home - spatial implications of income generation in the domestic setting the predictors of the feeling of crowding and crampedness in large residential buildings a post-occupancy evaluation of university educational buildings social sustainability and changes in environments designed for young children - the case of the French daycare centres occupational accident scenarios and work spaces in industrial environments. Global environment issues and ecological behaviour: overcoming expertocracy through sustainable development - the case of wastewater myths of nature and environmental management strategies - a field study on energy reductions in traffic and transport environmental attitudes and diffusion of innovations - the energy saving case predicting environmental attitudes and behaviour activating and inhibiting psychological factors related to sorting behaviour.