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Tables of Contents for The Language of Space
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
Space as language
1
13
Why a language?
1
1
The art of architecture
2
2
The social art
4
2
The language of space
6
2
Reading the language
8
3
Behavioural settings
11
1
How this book works
12
2
Space and the human dimension
14
28
The human basis of the language
14
1
The human psyche
15
1
Motivation and need
16
2
Spatial needs
18
1
Stimulation
18
3
Security
21
2
Behavioural settings
23
6
The security of the passage of time
29
2
Identity
31
4
The balance of needs
35
7
Mechanisms of perceiving space
42
27
Sensation and perception
42
2
Size and distance
44
1
Scale
44
11
Scale of movement
55
4
Scale and the social order
59
1
Foreground and background
60
2
Verticality
62
1
Symmetry
62
1
Colour
63
1
Number
63
1
Meaning
64
3
Context
67
2
Ways of perceiving space
69
31
The classical rulebook
69
2
Perception as an active process
71
1
Order, pattern and redundancy
72
4
The good and bad side of being redundant!
76
5
The expression of romanticism
81
2
How buildings can signify
83
5
Internal and external meaning
88
4
Back to architecture!
92
5
The language of modern architecture
97
3
Space and distance
100
28
Abstract and meaningful distance
100
1
Too close for comfort!
101
1
Flight and fight
102
3
`I need my space'
105
1
`Keep in touch'
106
3
Human distances
109
6
Intimate distance
115
2
Personal distance
117
1
Social distance
118
1
Public distance
119
1
Multiple distances in a space
120
2
Personality and context variation
122
3
Cultural variation
125
3
Proxemics
128
36
Non-verbal communication
128
3
Spatially defined roles
131
2
Spatial roles
133
7
Sociofugal and sociopetal space
140
4
Non-reciprocal relationships
144
1
Waiting spaces
145
2
Furniture
147
5
`Front of house', `back of house'
152
4
Variations
156
4
Movable and fixed furniture
160
4
The territory
164
30
Are we really territorial?
164
3
The nature and purpose of territory
167
2
The national territory
169
3
The borders and the heartland
172
1
The city territory
173
2
The family territory
175
3
Trouble with the neighbours!
178
4
Defending the territory and beyond
182
1
The territory invaded
183
7
The collapse of the territory
190
1
The territory as social reinforcement
191
3
Space and time
194
36
Predictions
194
1
Design strategies for uncertainty
194
1
The span of time in space
195
3
Identifying levels of uncertainty
198
1
`Designer' knowledge versus `ordinary' knowledge
198
2
One-way prediction
200
1
Confidence of prediction and rates of change
201
2
Purposeful and non-purposeful behaviour (apparently!)
203
4
Learning from children
207
3
Individuals, groups and crowds
210
8
Movement
218
3
The tyranny of functionalist space
221
3
Invitational space
224
1
Patterns of settings
225
5
Recording space
230
Measuring place
230
Semantic differentials
232
Problems with the semantic differential
234
But what does it mean?
236
Attention and focus
237
Measuring geometry
241
Divide and conquer
246