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标题：Blueprints for a History of Environmental Psychology (II): From Architectural Psychology to the challenge of sustainability
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作者：Enric Pol
期刊名称：Medio Ambiente y Comportamiento Humano
印刷版ISSN：1576-6462
出版年度：2007
卷号：8
期号：1
出版社：Editorial Resma
摘要：This is the second of two papers on blueprints for a history of Environmental Psychology. We have determined four stages: the First Environmental Psychology, the American Transition, Architectural Psychology, and Environmental Psychology for Sustainability. The previous paper dealt with the former two stages. We located their origins in early twentieth-century in Germany, with Hellpach and other authors who spoke specifically about Environmental Psychology. Definitions of boundaries of this stage are somewhat fuzzy. The period projects themselves until the 1930s, with the migration of a significant number of German psychologists to the United States. Thus began the ¡°American Transition¡±. In this stage, that brings us to the end of the 1950s, we followed the trace of the discipline during a time when it was uncommon to speak about the existence of an Environmental Psychology. However, it was at this time that a large part of the theoretical foundations of subsequent stages were established. This paper describes what some authors call the ¡°Second Birth of Environmental Psychology¡± (Kruse and Graumann, 1987), and what we label as the ¡°Age of Architectural Psychology¡±. In the description of this period we identify a crisis of relevance and an epistemological crisis at the end of the 1970s which, in the 1980s, gives rise to a two-fold shift ¨C both social and green ¨C that results in the formation of a new Environmental Psychology aimed at sustainability at the turn of the century. As a ¡®blueprint¡¯, this series of papers does not intend to offer a comprehensive review of the contributions made to the field, but rather aims to provide information in order to understand its strengths and weaknesses, its common ground and contradictions, and, in short, its construction as a theoretical and applied science.