Showing papers on "Built environment published in 1974"
01 Jan 1974
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TL;DR: For most of us the all-encompassing urban environment is inescapable and incomprehensible as discussed by the authors, and our defense is to shut them out of consciousness, to escape our built environment only by accident.
Abstract: For most of us the all-encompassing urban environment is inescapable and incomprehensible. We escape our built environment only by accident. Rainwater in a cracked pavement, abandoned automobiles, and garbage dumped in vacant lots are the only undesigned things seen by urban man. Overwhelmed and dwarfed by the mystery and the magnitude of the structures that surround us, our defense is to shut them out of consciousness. Nature has been banished from this
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