Public Places Private Spaces [first edition]

When environmental psychologists talk of environments, they can mean a cocktail party, your apartment building, a park, the clothes on your back, a retirement community, or a kitchen. Anywhere you are, anything within sensory range, constitutes an environment which can be described accurately and succinctly. Certain guidelines have emerged that should enable people to relate the nature of particular environments to their own feelings and behavior--to figure out the different environments in which they find themselves, and to understand why some environments make them feel good or bad, excited or bored, tense or comfortable.