ABSTRACT
The workshop on environmental quality deals principally with the problems of generalization and relevance to real world problems. Mr. Euston spoke of the problems involved in applying the idealism and assumptions of this assemblage to the organization and articulation of an effective national policy of environmental quality. Mr. Mitchell points to the terminal and static nature of the designer in defining environmental quality as an evolving viewpoint of a client whose competence grows with experience. Dr. Steele was more precise in defining the phenomenon of environmental competence. His experience points to a lack of competence in people to understand the manipulative power they have to structure their surroundings to satisfy temporary or alternately occurring needs.
