Table Of ContentHome
Environments
Human Behavior
and Environment
ADVANCES IN THEORY AND RESEARCH
Volume I
Volume2
Volume 3: Children and the Environment
Volume 4: Environment and Culture
Volume 5: Transportation and Behavior
Volume 6: Behavior and the
Natural Environment
Volume 7: Elderly People and the
Environment
Volume 8: Home Environments
Home
Environments
EDITED BY
IRWIN ALTMAN
AND
CAROL M. WERNER
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA. LLC
Ubrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Home environments.
(Human behavior and environment; v. 8)
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Architecture-United States-Human factors. 2. Architecture-Environmental
aspects-United States. I. Altman, Irwin. II. Werner, Carol M. III. Series.
BF353.H85 vol. 8 155.9 s [155.9145] 85-12272
[NA2542.4]
ISBN 978-1-4899-2268-7 ISBN 978-1-4899-2266-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-2266-3
©1985 Springer Science+Business Media New York
Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1985
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Articles Planned for Volume 9
NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTS
Editors: Irwin Altman and Abraham Wandersman
Islands in the Stream: Neighborhood in the Political
Economy of Urban Areas
DAVID BARTELT, DAVID ELESH, IRA GOLDSTEIN,
GEORGE LEON, AND WILLIAM YANCEY
Resident Participation in Neighborhood Rehabilitation
in Practice
ARZA CHURCHMAN
Neighborhood Preservation: Equity and Integrity in
the Urban Frontier
DAVID GOLDFIELD
The Symbolic Ecology of Suburbia: The Territoriality of
Individual and Collective Identities
ALBERT HUNTER
Culture and Environment in Neighborhood Conflict
SALLY ENGLE MERRY
Architectural Design and Neighborhood Formation
GEORGE RAND AND BERGE ARAN
The Neighborhood, Personal Identity, and Group Affiliations
LEANNE RIVLIN
The Sociocultural Context of Neighborhood and
Community Planning
WILLEM VAN VLIET AND JACK BURGERS
Toxic Wastes and the Community
ABRAHAM WANDERSMAN AND MICHAEL EDELSTEIN
Contributors
IRWIN ALTMAN • Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Uni
versity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
}AMES R. ANDERSON • School of Architecture and Housing Research
and Development Program, University of lllinois, Urbana, Illinois
SIDNEY BROWER • School of Social Work and Community Planning,
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
GERALD J. CoNTI • MSE Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Bal
timore, Maryland
}AMES S. DuNcAN • Department of Geography, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, New York
I<IMBERLY DoVEY • Department of Architecture, Royal Melbourne In
stitute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
GRAEME J. HARDIE • National Institute for Personnel Research, Braam
fontein, Republic of South Africa
ELIZABETH D. HUTIMAN • Department of Sociology and Social Services,
California State University, Hayward, California
PERLA KoRosEc-SERFATY • Institut de Psychologie, Universite Louis
Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
RoDERICK J. LAWRENCE • Universite de Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland
DIANA OXLEY • Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, Utah
AMos RAPOPORT • Department of Architecture, University of Wiscon
sin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
DAVID G. SAILE • School of Architecture and Urban Design, University
of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
SusAN SAEGERT • Program in Environmental Psychology, City Univer
sity of New York Graduate Center, New York, New York
SALLY A. SHUMAKER • Behavioral Medicine Branch,DECA/NHLBI, The
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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viii Contributors
RALPH B. TAYLOR • Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SuE WEIDEMANN • Department of Landscape Architecture and Housing
Research and Development Program, University of Illinois, Ur
bana, Illinois
CAROL M. WERNER • Department of Psychology, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah
Preface
The present volume in the series focuses on homes, residences, and
dwellings. Although many fields have had a long-standing interest in
different aspects of home environments, the topic has recently come to
the forefront in the interdisciplinary environment and behavior field.
Researchers and theorists from many disciplines have begun to meet
regularly, share ideas and perspectives, and move the investigation of
psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of home environments to
the central arena of environment and behavior studies. This volume
attempts to provide a representative-though not comprehensive
sampling of contemporary perspectives on the study of home
environments.
As in previous volumes, the authors are drawn from a variety of
disciplines, including environmental design fields of architecture and
planning, and from the social science fields of psychology, sociology,
anthropology, and history. This diversity of authors and perspectives
makes salient the principle that the study of homes in relation to behav
ior requires the contributions of many disciplines. Moreover, the chap
ters in this volume reflect an array of research and theoretical view
points, different scales of home environments (e.g., objects and areas,
the home as a whole, the home as embedded in neighborhood and
communities, etc.), design and policy issues, and, necessarily, a com
parative and cross-cultural perspective.
Home environments are at the core of human life in most cultures,
and it is hoped that the contributions to this volume display the excite
ment, potential, and importance of research and theory on homes.
Volume 9 of this series will be coedited by Abraham Wandersman
and Irwin Altman, and will deal with the topic of community and neigh
borhood environments.
IRWIN ALTMAN
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Contents
CHAPTER 1
TEMPORAL ASPECTS OF HOMES: A TRANSACTIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
CAROL M. WERNER
IRWIN ALTMAN
DIANA OXLEY
Transactional Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Social Rules and Social Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Affordances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Appropriation, Attachment, and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Temporal Qualities of Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Cyclical Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Temporal Salience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Temporal Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Temporal Pace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Temporal Rhythm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Attics and Cellars in Rural France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
House-Blessing Ceremonies: Pueblo of Zuni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Implications for Future Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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