... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Book; Authored Book]. From abandonment to hope: Community-hous... more ... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Book; Authored Book]. From abandonment to hope: Community-households in Harlem. ... Residents described the experience of living throughabandonment and the processes by which the buildings were brought back into the housing ...
The effects of residential density were examined in the following study through a comparison of e... more The effects of residential density were examined in the following study through a comparison of experiences of tenants living in 14-story apartment buildings and those in three-story walkups within the same low-income housing project. It was hypothesized that tenants in the high-rise buildings would come into contact with large numbers of others in the public spaces of their buildings. As these contacts exceeded residents' interaction capacity or ability to process relevant incoming social stimuli tenants would experience social overload. This experience would b~ manifested by tenants' perceptions of crowding in the building, feelings of less control, safety, and privacy in the immediate residential environment, problematic social relationships among tenants and alienation and dissatisfaction with the resMential environment generally. These experiences were not expected to occur for tenants in the low-rise walkups. Interview data supported these hypotheses and revealed, in addition, that high-rise apartment residents were less socially active beyond their building and felt a greater sense of powerlessness in effecting management decisions. Correlational analyses provided further evidence of the vast differences between residents' experiences of the two building types.
DOI: 10.1177/00139160121972936 2001 33: 165 Environment and Behavior Gary W. Evans, Susan Saegert... more DOI: 10.1177/00139160121972936 2001 33: 165 Environment and Behavior Gary W. Evans, Susan Saegert and Rebecca Harris Residential Density and Psychological Health among Children in Low-Income Families ... On behalf of: Environmental Design Research ...
Markets and policies produce units of housing that are only made into “homes” as lives are lived ... more Markets and policies produce units of housing that are only made into “homes” as lives are lived in them. For those with adequate resources, housing becomes home through a process of exercising choice in the market, buying goods and services to augment one’s own labor, and making personal and emotional investments. For poor families, the struggle for both housing and home is a difficult one. Yet, in all kinds of housing, residents work to keep their families healthy, educate their children, and live what they and society deem good and productive lives.1 Through narratives and photographs, this article considers how housing provided to low-income families in two different eras in the United States were more than simple economic commodities, as they strove to support lives and carry forward a broad social commitment.2 It explores how people have created “home” in two unusual, humane and progressive affordable-housing developments: Marcus Garvey Village in Brownsville, Brooklyn (opened...
Space is not an aseptic dimension: it is an experience that brings together physical, ideal, and ... more Space is not an aseptic dimension: it is an experience that brings together physical, ideal, and emotional elements shaping individual and communal perceptions of being in the world. This expanded understanding of space is the result of a debate that emerged in the late nineteenth century and bloomed after the Second World War. However, this understanding has not percolated into common development planning; even today, the spatial dimension is often overlooked by researchers and professionals designing and implementing development initiatives. The definition of space remains limited to an ensemble of geographical coordinates that locate a particular place in a map of the world. In so doing, the key human experience that is built on sensorial perception, affective and intellectual interpretations, and public and private, individual and collective narratives of interaction with space are left out. The People, Place and Space Reader allows the reader to appreciate the rich cultural debate that shaped the social sciences in the past century and marked the passage from modernism to post-modernism. The idea for the book was developed from experiences in the environmental psychology program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Book; Authored Book]. From abandonment to hope: Community-hous... more ... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Book; Authored Book]. From abandonment to hope: Community-households in Harlem. ... Residents described the experience of living throughabandonment and the processes by which the buildings were brought back into the housing ...
The effects of residential density were examined in the following study through a comparison of e... more The effects of residential density were examined in the following study through a comparison of experiences of tenants living in 14-story apartment buildings and those in three-story walkups within the same low-income housing project. It was hypothesized that tenants in the high-rise buildings would come into contact with large numbers of others in the public spaces of their buildings. As these contacts exceeded residents' interaction capacity or ability to process relevant incoming social stimuli tenants would experience social overload. This experience would b~ manifested by tenants' perceptions of crowding in the building, feelings of less control, safety, and privacy in the immediate residential environment, problematic social relationships among tenants and alienation and dissatisfaction with the resMential environment generally. These experiences were not expected to occur for tenants in the low-rise walkups. Interview data supported these hypotheses and revealed, in addition, that high-rise apartment residents were less socially active beyond their building and felt a greater sense of powerlessness in effecting management decisions. Correlational analyses provided further evidence of the vast differences between residents' experiences of the two building types.
DOI: 10.1177/00139160121972936 2001 33: 165 Environment and Behavior Gary W. Evans, Susan Saegert... more DOI: 10.1177/00139160121972936 2001 33: 165 Environment and Behavior Gary W. Evans, Susan Saegert and Rebecca Harris Residential Density and Psychological Health among Children in Low-Income Families ... On behalf of: Environmental Design Research ...
Markets and policies produce units of housing that are only made into “homes” as lives are lived ... more Markets and policies produce units of housing that are only made into “homes” as lives are lived in them. For those with adequate resources, housing becomes home through a process of exercising choice in the market, buying goods and services to augment one’s own labor, and making personal and emotional investments. For poor families, the struggle for both housing and home is a difficult one. Yet, in all kinds of housing, residents work to keep their families healthy, educate their children, and live what they and society deem good and productive lives.1 Through narratives and photographs, this article considers how housing provided to low-income families in two different eras in the United States were more than simple economic commodities, as they strove to support lives and carry forward a broad social commitment.2 It explores how people have created “home” in two unusual, humane and progressive affordable-housing developments: Marcus Garvey Village in Brownsville, Brooklyn (opened...
Space is not an aseptic dimension: it is an experience that brings together physical, ideal, and ... more Space is not an aseptic dimension: it is an experience that brings together physical, ideal, and emotional elements shaping individual and communal perceptions of being in the world. This expanded understanding of space is the result of a debate that emerged in the late nineteenth century and bloomed after the Second World War. However, this understanding has not percolated into common development planning; even today, the spatial dimension is often overlooked by researchers and professionals designing and implementing development initiatives. The definition of space remains limited to an ensemble of geographical coordinates that locate a particular place in a map of the world. In so doing, the key human experience that is built on sensorial perception, affective and intellectual interpretations, and public and private, individual and collective narratives of interaction with space are left out. The People, Place and Space Reader allows the reader to appreciate the rich cultural debate that shaped the social sciences in the past century and marked the passage from modernism to post-modernism. The idea for the book was developed from experiences in the environmental psychology program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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