IAPS 10/1988 .:. Looking Back to the Future

Hoogdalem, Herbert et al.
Looking Back to the Future. Se retourner vers l'avenir. Proceedings of the tenth bienal conference of the International Association for the Study of People and their Physical Surroundings. Vol. II. Symposia and Papers/Symposiums et Communications. Delft: University Press, 1988. 591 Seiten mit Abbildungen und Register. Broschur. Grossoktav. 238 x 159 mm. 878 g

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IAPS 101988 | Soziologie | Psychologie | Architektur

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IAPS is an international association of social scientists, architects and planners engaged in research on relations between people and their physical surroundings. Biannuel international conferences have been held in Europe since 1969; IAPS was formally constituted in 1981. Topics in these conferences have been: housing (privacy, safety, special groups, gentrification); workspaces (organizational and technological changes, comfort, ergonomics, stress, social control, health facilities); public spaces (territorial behaviour, crowding, vandalism, traffic); recreational spaces (timebudgets, ecological aspects); perception (information processing, preferences, aesthetics, perceptual impact and defense, orientation) and methodology of research and education (comparative f loorplan analysis, post occupancy evaluation, phenomenological approaches). In July 1988 the 10th conference has been organized in Delft (Netherlands). The centrale theme is "Looking back to the future". The past forty years have seen tremendous changes in society and the environment. IAPS10 seems an ideal opportunity to take stock: How do present analyses of manenvironment relations compare with those of the early fifties, the critical sixties and seventies ? Why did so many hopes remain unfulfilled ? Can we learn from costly mistakes and set out a future course for manenvironment studies ?
This Volume H includes the symposia and a selection of the full length papers.

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Editors' Preface
Looking back to the future
In a park near Arnhem in the east of the Netherlands exists a very popular attraction called "De bedriegertjes", litteraly: The Little Cheaters". Visitors, lured by its nice pavings, little statuettes and beautiful flowerbeds, are quite unexpectedly sprinkled by waterfountains springing from jets artfully hidden in the ground. The first reaction of thrill mixed sometimes with anger unvariably ends into hilarious laughter. A typical Dutch reaction? Living in a country, which for a large part, lies below sea level, Dutchmen don't like to be surprised by water. In their history an enormous lot of technical ingenuity and organization was and is put in the control of water. To keep it away behind dykes, to pump it by (wind)mills through canals into the sea. On the other hand dutchmen feel very much attracted by water: they are fond of sailing, swimming, surfing, skating and even skiing. Wherever there is water in the world, there is almost certainly a dutchman around. Some of this ambivalent, amphibious attitude to water must have been transferred by us, the dutch organizers of this conference, to paper. We thought that just sending a 'call for papers' into the world, was asking for impredictable paperstreams, flooding some important fields, and leaving other equally important ones dry. What we envisaged was a typical dutch landscape of ditches, dykes and canals, circumscribing a number of fields and some powerf ull windmills to regulate the paper level in this orderly system. As our windmills acted wellknown experts invited in an early stage to organize a symposium on their particular field, by selecting in turn some specialists in that field to contribute papers. In doing so we hoped for a rich crop from as many fields of the ManEnvironment Studies Area as possible. Fortunately most of our windmills have performed very well. We were happy to see that our sense for order also spread to others. Quite a number of contributors became the windmill of their own selfinitiated symposium coordinating the contributions and preparing the conditions for a fruitful exchange during the conference itself. In this way more than half of all papers and contributions have been presented within the context of 15 prestructured symposia. For the other, smaller half of individual papers, we have done our best to group them into papersessions with a clear communal theme. These papersessions have been prepared by invited chairpersons, whose task was to lead the discussion around that theme. In this way 13 paper sessions were added to the 15 symposia. Altogether about 180 contributions, either as abstract or full length paper were received in Delft. Except for the ones in the invited symposia, all these papers and abstracts were each refereed blindly by two independent referees. Their comments were returned to the authors, who could and most often actually did revise their drafts into final shape.
Our referees indicated also which paper under what conditions could be published. We, the editors, followed their suggestions in most cases and want to express our gratitude, for their effort and good advice. At the beginning of may 1988 all the material for the Proceedings, was in our hands, fit to print, a rather unique event in the history of LAPSconferences. Volume I, containing the abstracts of all the contributions and the detailed program appeared just before the conference to serve as a guidebook to the participants. Volume II, containing the key note addresses and a selection of fulllength papers has been released at the end of the conference.
As a consequence of our decision to publish Volume I and II before the conference was held, discussion are not included. We hope that the efforts of the organizing committee in structuring the conference will stimulate the participants to publish their experiences in Newsletters and Journals, thus giving shape to an imaginary third volume.
Delft, may 1988
Herbert van Hoogdalem Niels Prak Theo van der Voordt Herman van Wegen
LIST OF REFEREES, Andel 3. van, Barbey G., Bernard Y., Blauw W., Boilerey F., Bovy P., Burgers 3, Coeterier 3., Deben L., Deelstra T j., Draak 3. den, Drewe P., Duin L. van, Ellis P., Gärling T., Grivel F., Guttinger V., Hamel R., Hansen A., Heijmans A., Houben P., Hulsbergen E., Jansen B., Jockusch P., Jong T. de, Jonge D. de, Kempen E. van, K roes H., Kropman J.A., Kruse L., Lambert D., Lans W., Lawrence R., Lee S., Lee T., Lipman A., Lubke Ch., Maas F., Mäéel O., Menzel M., Nijs L., Pennaerz P., Priemus H., Reverda J., Smets G., Steffen E., Stoppelenburg P., Symes M., Tacken M., Tjallingii S., Turpijn W., Tzonis A., Vaart D. van der, Verloo M., Verwer D., Vrielink D., Wagenberg D. van, Weggemans T., Westra H., Wurff A. van der

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