Quality of Urban Life

Dieter Frick, Hans W. Hoefert, Heiner Legewie, Rainer Mackensen, Rainer K. Silbereisen

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9783110884968
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Table of contents

• Part A: Overview: Quality of Urban Life
• Introduction
• 1. The New Urban Crisis
• 2. Psychological Aspects of the Quality of Urban Life
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Meaning of the Quality of Urban Life
• 3 Issues in Describing the Physical Environment
• 4 Issues in the Definition of the Person
• 3. On Cities, Design, and People
• 1 The Future of Cities and the Role of Design
• 2 Death and Life of the Modern Movement
• 3 “Megastructura Labilis”
• 4 Post-Modern and Beyond
• 5 What Next?
• Part B: Social Networks
• Introduction
• 4. Social Networks and the Quality of Life
• 1 Time to Care
• 2 Social Support
• 5. Social Networks in Urban Neighbourhoods
• 1 The Impact of Urban Environment on Social Networks
• 2 Urban Environments and Social Networks: How to Study Network Properties in Large Populations?
• 3 Conclusions
• 6. Network Procedures
• 1 Growth of Network Studies
• 2 Macro and Micro Approaches
• 3 The Contextualization of Social Networks
• 4 The Features of the Network
• 5 Basis of the Determinancy of Social Action
• 6 Data Collection
• 7 The Manchester Homeless Families Study
• 8 The Analysis of the Data
• 9 Conclusions
• Part C: Ethnic Minorities
• Introduction
• 7. Acculturation and Stress Among Immigrants and Later Generation Individuals
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A Model of Acculturation
• 3 Psychological Stress: A Model and Some Findings
• 4 Some Observations from the Data
• 5 Conclusions
• 8. The Pattern of Acculturation amongst Asian and Caribbean Descended Youth in Britain
• 1 The Limitations of Acculturation Theory
• 2 The Asian Immigrants to Great Britain
• 3 The West Indian Immigrants to Great Britain
• 4 Conclusions
• 9. Acculturation in Urban Areas: Migrant Workers and the Settlement of Turks in West Berlin
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Models of Acculturation and Assimilation
• 3 Towards a More Differentiated View
• 4 The Urban Concentration of Turkish Settlement Patterns
• 5 The Cultural Diversity of the Turkish Enclave in West Berlin
• 6 Research Findings
• 7 Occupational Orientations of the Turkish Youth in West Berlin/Acculturation?
• 8 Work Values
• 9 Future Orientations Towards Working and Living
• Part D: Man – Environment Relations
• Introduction
• 10. The Use and Design of Open Spaces in Urban Neighbourhoods
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Conceptual Framework
• 3 Activities and Activity Systems
• 4 Settings and Systems of Settings
• 5 Supportive Environments
• 6 The Neighbourhood as Setting System
• 7 An Example: Pedestrian Activities
• 8 Design and Research
• 11. Aesthetic, Communication and Use: Perspectives for Urban Open Spaces
• 12. An Ecological Approach to Urban Environment Perception
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Methodological Aspects
• 3 Type one Studies: Perceptions of the Whole Urban Environment
• 4 Type two Studies: Perception of the Quality of the Residential Environment in the Sample Area
• 5 Type three Studies: Inhabitants’ and Temporary Visitors’ Cognitive Representation of the City
• 6 Conclusions
• 13. Psychological Identity of and Identification With Urban Neighbourhoods
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Design of the Research Project
• 3 Identity of and Identification with One’s Neighbourhood as Reflected in Subjective Presentations
• 4 Identity Markers in the Physical Environment
• 5 Identification with the Neighbourhood qua Social Environment
• 6 Conclusions
• Part E: Mental Health
• Introduction
• 14. New York City’s Open Space System. The Process of Evolution
• 15. The Reform of Health and Psychiatric Services in Relation to the Quality of Urban Life. Experiences in the Region of Piedmont and in the City of Turin
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Decentralization of Mental Health Services (MHS) in Piedmont and in the City of Turin
• 3 Transformations and Crises
• 4 Dismantling the Psychiatric Hospitals in Turin
• 16. From the Social Movement Towards the Socio-Cultural Movement. The Example of Amsterdam
• List of Authors
• Author Index