Abstract
As discussed by Preiser, Rabinowitz, and White (1988) and Wener (1988), numerous advances have been made in evaluating built environments over the past 15 years. Advances in research design, methodologies and techniques, and theoretical model development have been displayed in a plethora of evaluation studies undertaken in a wide variety of settings and for different of purposes. Whereas earlier work highlighted the purpose of evaluation as providing feedback to clients and environmental designers on the impact of physical environments on occupant behavior, which could suggest directions for environmental modification (Zeisel, 1975; Zimring and Reisenstein, 1980), new purposes for undertaking evaluation in the environmental design fields have surfaced in the 1980s.
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Marans, R.W. (1989). Generative Evaluations using Quantitative Methods: A Case Study. In: Preiser, W.F.E. (eds) Building Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3722-3_18
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