GEO 106 Lecture 7: GEO106 - Week 4 - Design
9 Jun 2016
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Adaptive environments: how proxemic features affect the activities of people in an environment. That is, how fixed, semi-fixed and informal features (the intimate, personal, business and public distance) help or hinder people"s use of environments: for example, streets, curbs, and sidewalks are all shared fixed features. People cooperate in order not to collide a learned rule of the place. But for panhandling, the features and rules are used differently . Will often choose areas where their backs are faced against the wall. They choose the sealed location to avoid people they know. Sidewalk and ambulatory exposures are highly visible but irritate pedestrians and do not generate income. Over 75% of panhandlers preferred wall side locations. Similarly, fixed architectural and design features, such as room layouts coupled with learned context dictate what furniture goes where in houses and apartments: often times people prefer to sleep away from the window.
