ABSTRACT
This chapter deals in some way with behavioral consequences of spatial organization; and implications for environmental organization. The units of environmental information are: quite large and non-quantitative with respect to topographic implications, they are described in conventional environmental units and they set forth no positive and precise design directives. To assess the effects of a specific environmental component in a residential setting is one thing; to extrapolate to an entire region on the basis of these data is quite another. Among other things, such empirical studies as these reveal certain fallacies in the fundamental beliefs held by designers regarding man-environmental causality. Most information needed for environmental design purposes is fragmented, incomplete, and in a form which makes its use most difficult to apply in physical problem-solving. How can our knowledge of these human responses be generalized and extrapolated to entirely new settings yet to be invented?.
