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Making Places for People: 12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask
Christie Johnson Coffin
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Description for Making Places for People: 12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask
Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1 black & white tables, 51 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AMA; AMC; AMR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 162 x 2. Weight in Grams: 238.
** Honorable Mention at the 2019 ERDA Great Places Awards ** Making Places for People explores twelve social questions in environmental design. Authors Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young bring perspectives from practice and teaching to challenge assumptions about how places meet human needs. The book reveals deeper complexities in addressing basic questions, such as: What is the story of this place? What logic orders it? How big is it? How sustainable is it? Providing an overview of a growing body of knowledge about people and places, Making Places for People stimulates curiosity and ... Read more
** Honorable Mention at the 2019 ERDA Great Places Awards ** Making Places for People explores twelve social questions in environmental design. Authors Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young bring perspectives from practice and teaching to challenge assumptions about how places meet human needs. The book reveals deeper complexities in addressing basic questions, such as: What is the story of this place? What logic orders it? How big is it? How sustainable is it? Providing an overview of a growing body of knowledge about people and places, Making Places for People stimulates curiosity and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
238g
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138860643
SKU
V9781138860643
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Ref
99-5
About Christie Johnson Coffin
Christie Johnson Coffin practices architecture in the Western United States and internationally in Taiwan, India, and Nicaragua, with a focus on social design for health-care and research laboratory buildings. Her university teaching includes the University of California, Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Polytechnic University, and the University of Oregon. She is the co-author of Changing Hospital Environments for ... Read more
Reviews for Making Places for People: 12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask
'Creating environments that enable a diverse cross-section of people to thrive requires attention to human psychological and behavioral processes and physical needs. By expounding on twelve key design-focused questions, Making Places for People weaves a narrative of environmental design theory and techniques to enrich human experience, while referencing important works of architecture and planning from around the world. The book ... Read more