ABSTRACT

The dualism between reason and emotion, intellect and feeling, has been a matter of intense philosophical debate since Aristotle wrote De Anima. Psychologists have long preached that man has emotional needs and that deprivation in this matter is potentially harmful. Many environmental factors arouse feelings and as Parr (1965) rightly says, 'it might seem logical to expect that there would be a great deal of knowledge at hand concerning the relationship between environment and emotions. But in this expectation we are badly disappointed.' In an effort to alleviate that disappointment, an attempt will here be made to describe the connections between urbanism and the emotions.