Author: Amos Rapoport

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

ISBN: 0816511764

Category: Psychology

Page: 262

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The Meaning of the Built Environment is a lively illustrated study of the meanings of everyday buildings for their users. Professor Rapoport uses examples and vignettes, drawn from many cultures and historical eras as well as contemporary America, to explicate a new framework for understanding how the built environment comes to have meaning, both for individual people and whole societies.