PLANNING 1

Social and Psychological Consideration:

Site Values and Social Impact

Prepared by: Rhe-An Mae L. Catamin BS ARCH 3A

Instructor: Arch. Ryan N. Ortigas
Social and Psychological Considerations

Good planning and design will be the product

of a process which respects both nature of man
and the nature of nature --Elizabeth Kassler
Thus far we have emphasized the natural
constraints in regional landscape planning and
site planning.
Social and Psychological Considerations

• The criteria for housing, recreation facilities, and

use areas have assumed a great deal about the
nature of man. In this research we consider how
social and psychological theory may present
constraints or positive direction in decision
making and the development of form at all
scales of landscape architecture.
 Site Values/ Social Impact
It seems likely that an understanding of
behavior and perception will be helpful in
the development of answers to the
following similar questions.
• What kind of setting is considered suitable
for various forms of recreation and leisure
time behavior?
Social and Psychological Considerations

Only recently has there been a concerted effort to relate

an understanding of human needs, environmental
perception and attitudes to design and planning in the
hope of providing more satisfactory, conflict-free, and
socially appropriate environments. Environmental
psychology has become almost as popular a subject as
ecology.1.
 Site Values/ Social Impact

• Which aspects of recreation are derived

from a desire to get away from pressure of
the city and which are derived from a need
for physical exercise?
 Site Values/ Social Impact
• How can playgrounds be made responsive to
the needs, urges and feelings of young children
when they are designed by adults?
The answers to such questions and others are
obviously important if design and planning are to
be responsive to the social context within which
the design must operate and which it serves
 Generally there are two basic ways to
become more sensitive to the answers to
these and a host of similar questions on
every aspect of behavior and environment.
• One is to learn from observation and direct
consultation with members of community or a
specific group on society defined by factors such
as age and socioeconomic status.
• Another way is to become familiar with the
general principles or “universals” of behavior
and perception.
 Site Values/ Social Impact
Flexibility in the solution will presumably take care of
future users whose needs and preferences may be
different. We must be cautious of the tremendous
adaptability of the people to the given environmental
situations, which can, in fact, lead us to find satisfactory-
and even favor-environments that previously or
objectively would have been considered unsatisfactory
or hostile. Attitudes change, people move, life is ongoing,
and there is always the dilemma that what the people
seem to want or need at one moment may be in conflict
with long term goals or the needs of others.
 SOCIAL ANALYSIS

Various methods have been developed to help designers

know more about the needs and attitudes of the public
client.
1. One method of gathering attitudinal information is the
questionnaire or attitude survey. The success of these
forms depends on the selection and wording of questions.
Questions such as “what do you think of so and so?” or
“what kind of environment would you like?” are inhibiting.
⁻ Since most members of the public do not know what all
the possibilities are, their answers are limited by their
past experiences and imaginations, or loaded by the
choices they are given in the questions. Although attitude
surveys are becoming increasingly sophisticated, there
are so many variables and difficulties that they may only
be useful as a ways to substantiate the hypothesis or
intuitive guess of an intelligent designer or planner who
is familiar with the situation.
 SOCIAL ANALYSIS
2. Another method is the Factual questionnaire
surveys which provide an indication of the
actual use of facilities, parks, and playgrounds
are probably more valuable. Studies of this
nature at least tell us how the existing facilities
are used and the distance people of various
ages are prepared, if not content, to travel for
various recreation activities and experiences.
Thank you for listening…
QUIZ
1. (Good planning and design will be the
product of a process which respects both
nature of man and the nature of nature.) who
said this?

a) Elizabete Kashler
b) Elizabeth Kassier
c) Elizabeth Kassler
d) Elisabeth Kassler
 2. There are three criteria that have
assumed a great deal about the nature of
man EXCEPT ONE.

a) Recreation Facilities
b) Use Areas
c) Fabrics
d) Housing
3. Environmental psychology has become
almost as popular a subject as ?

a) psychology.1.
b) biology.1.
c) chemistry.1.
d) ecology.1.
 4. How many questions that an
understanding of behavior and perception
will be helpful in the development of
answers?
a) 1
b) 3
c) 2
d) 4
 5. are to be responsive to the
social context within which the design must
operate and which it serves.

a) Design and constructing

b) Planning and developing
c) Constructing and planning
d) Design and planning
 6. What kind of is considered
suitable for various forms of recreation and
leisure time behavior?

a) Place
b) Time
c) Setting
d) Nature
7. Which aspects of are derived from
a desire to get away from pressure of the city
and which are derived from a need for physical
exercise?

a) Behavior
b) Perception
c) Recreation
d) Development
 8. How can playgrounds be made
responsive to the needs, urges and feelings
of young children when they are designed
by adults?

a) Playgrounds
b) Schools
c) Buildings
d) Gardens
 9. How many basic ways to become more
sensitive on every aspect of behavior and
environment?

a) Two
b) Three
c) Four
d) None of the above
 10. The first method of gathering
attitudinal information is the
questionnaire or ?

a) Attitude survey
b) Emotional survey
c) Physical survey
d) Mental survey
True or false:
11. One of the basic ways on every aspect of
behavior and environment is to learn from
observation and direct consultation with
members of community or a specific group on
society defined by factors such as age and
socioeconomic status.

a) True
b) False
 12. Is the criteria for housing, recreation
facilities, and use areas have not assumed a
great deal about the nature of man?

a) True
b) False
13. Flexibility in the solution will presumably
take care of future users whose needs and
preferences may be different

a) True
b) False
 14. Attitudes change, people move, life is
ongoing, and there is always the dilemma that
what the people seem to want or need at one
moment may be in conflict with long term goals
or the needs of others.

a) True
b) False
 15. We must be cautious of the tremendous
adaptability of the people to the given
environmental situations, which can, in fact, lead
us to find satisfactory-and even favor-
environments that previously or objectively would
have been considered unsatisfactory or hostile.

a) True
b) False
 16. Another method is the actual questionnaire
surveys which provide an indication of the actual
use of facilities, parks, and playgrounds are
probably more valuable.

a) True
b) False
17. Another way in the basic ways on every aspect
of behavior and environment is to become familiar
with the general principles or “universals” of
behavior and perception.

a) True
b) False
 18. Good planning and design will be the
product of a process which respects both
nature of man and the nature of nature --
Elizabeth Kassier

a) True
b) False
 19. One method of gathering attitudinal
information is the questionnaire or emotional
survey.

a) True
b) False
20. Environmental psychology has become
almost as popular a subject as ecology.1.

a) True
b) False
Answer Key:
1. C 11. A
2. C 12. B
3. D 13. A
4. B 14. A
5. D 15. A
6. C 16. B
7. C 17. A
8. A 18. B
9. A 19. B
10. A 20. A