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Stagg, Josef – Academe, 1991
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee building illustrates how an academic building can be ill-suited to its users due to uncompromising adherence to its formal conception. The building is out of scale with its neighbors and unsuccessful in fulfilling human needs, particularly those constituting the latent functions of the building. (MSE)
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Design, Case Studies, College Buildings
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Manning, Robert D.; Price, Derek V.; Rich, Henry J. – Teaching Sociology, 1997
Describes an undergraduate sociology project in which students conducted research at working class and upper-middle class shopping malls. The research focused on social stratification and its manifestation in architectural character, spatial relationships, advertising, and consumer behavior. Includes an appendix that reproduces the fieldwork…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Built Environment, Capitalism, Consumer Economics
Jenkins, Judith, Ed. – 1985
This document, in a looseleaf format that allows for the easy addition of annual updates, is a compilation of information to be used in the planning of educational buildings from the conception of needs through occupancy and use. Each unit contains numerous photographs, drawings, and figures that illustrate the contents. Unit subjects are as…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Budgeting, Building Design, Campus Planning
Moore, Deborah P., Ed. – 1991
A looseleaf format allows for the easy addition of annual updates to this practitioner's handbook for planning educational facilities from the conception of needs through occupancy and use. Each unit contains numerous photographs, drawings, and figures that illustrate the contents. Unit subjects are as follows: historical perspectives; planning…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Budgeting, Building Conversion, Campus Planning