| 1. Introduction 1 |
| Seymour Wapner, Jack Demick, Takiji Yamamoto, and Takashi Takahashi |
| I. PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE PERSON |
| 2. Visual Perception in Elderly Persons with Dementia 15 |
| Kei Adachi |
| 3. Dwelling Design Guidelines for Accessibility in the Aging Society: A New Era in Japan? 25 |
| Satoshi Kose |
| 4. Urban Housing and the Elderly 43 |
| Takashi Takahashi |
| 5. Quality of Life in Japanese Older Adults 51 |
| Hisao Osada |
| 6. A Study on a Relocation of a Nursing Home for Blind Older Adults 59 |
| Takiji Yamamoto and Toshihiro Hanazato |
| II. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE PERSON |
| 7. Body and Self Experience: Japan versus USA 83 |
| Jack Demick, Shinji Ishii, and Wataru Inoue |
| 8. Cross-Cultural Survey on Color Preferences in Three Asian Cities: Comparisons among Tokyo, Taipei, and Tranjin 101 |
| Ichiro Soma and Miho Saito |
| 9. Mode of Being in Places: A Case Study in Urban Public Space 113 |
| Takeshi Suzuki |
| III. SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE PERSON |
| 10. Urban Renewal and the Elderly: An Ethnographic Approach 133 |
| Hirofumi Minami |
| 11. Integrating Environmental Factors into Multidimensional Analysis 149 |
| William Michelson |
| IV. PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT |
| 12. Experiencing Japanese Gardens: Sensory Information and Behavior 161 |
| Ryuzo Ohno, Tomohiro Hata, and Miki Kondo |
| 13. Preference for Trees on Urban Riverfronts 181 |
| Yoichi Kubota |
| 14. Landscape Values: Congruence and Conffict in Desert Riparian Areas 199 |
| Ervin H. Zube |
| 15. Environmental Transition and Natural Disaster: Restoration Housing for the Mt. Unzen Volcanic Eruption 209 |
| Masami Kobayashi, Ken Miura, and Norio Maki |
| 16. Environmental Psychology and Biosphere 2 235 |
| Robert B. Bechtel, Taber MacCallum, and Jane Poynter |
| V. INTERPERSONAL ASPECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT |
| 17. Rethinking Stereotypes of Family Housing in Japan and the USA 247 |
| Sandra C. Howell |
| VI. SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT |
| 18. Sociopsychological Environments of Japanese Schools as Perceived by School Students 261 |
| Masaaki Asai and Sonomi Hirata |
| 19. "Big School, Small School" Revisited: A Case Study of a Large-Scale Comprehensive High School Based on the Campus Plan 273 |
| Toshihiko Sako |
| 20. Sojourn in a New Culture: Japanese Students in American Universities and American Students in Japanese Universities 283 |
| Seymour Wapner, Junko Fujimoto, Tomoaki Imamichi, Yuko Inoue, and Karl J. Toews |
| 21. Public Space as Art and Commodity: The Spanish American Plaza 313 |
| Setha M. Low |
| 22. Urbanization and Quality of Life in Asia 325 |
| Kanae Tanigawa and Kunio Tanaka |
| VII. FUTURE THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL DIRECTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENT-BEHAVIOR RESEARCH |
| 23. Directions of Environmental Psychology in the Twenty-First Century 333 |
| Daniel Stokols |
| 24. Transactional Perspective, Design, and "Architectural Planning Research" in Japan 335 |
| Kunio Funahashi |
| 25. Some Arguments for a Comparative Developmental Environmental Psychology with a Long-Term View of History and Cultural Psychology 365 |
| George Rand |
| 26. Prospects for Environmental Psychology in the Third Millennium 377 |
| Kenneth H. Craik |
| 27. What Is the Situation?: A Comment on the Fourth Japan-USA Seminar on Environment-Behavior Research 385 |
| Susan Saegert |
| 28. Theory in Environment-Behavior Studies: Transcending Times, Settings, and Groups 399 |
| Amos Rapoport |
| 29. Environment and Behavior Studies: A Discipline? Not a Discipline? Becoming a Discipline? 423 |
| Irwin Altman |
| Appendix: List of Presentations of Previous Japan-U.S. Seminars on Environment-Behavior Research 435 |
| Name Index 439 |
| Subject Index 447 |
| 1. Introduction 1 |
| Seymour Wapner, Jack Demick, Takiji Yamamoto, and Takashi Takahashi |
| I. PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE PERSON |
| 2. Visual Perception in Elderly Persons with Dementia 15 |
| Kei Adachi |
| 3. Dwelling Design Guidelines for Accessibility in the Aging Society: A New Era in Japan? 25 |
