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Jack L. Nasar

, PhD, EDRA, FAICP, is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University, editor of the Journal of Planning Literature, and an environmental psychologist who studies human perceptions, evaluation, and behavior in relation to the environment. Nasar has a PhD from Pennsylvania State University in Man-Environment Relations, a Masters in Urban Planning from NYU, and a BA in Architecture from Washington University. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and seven books. An invited lecturer around the world, he has received the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Career Achievement Award for the book Designing for Designers (Fairchild), the Ethel Chattel Fellowship from University of Sydney, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Architecture at Washington University, St. Louis.
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Designing for Designers

Designing for Designers: Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture

Thomas Fisher, Jack L. Nasar, and Wolfgang F.E. Preiser
$59.50
Using the approach of the seminal work The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch, which demonstrated the importance of talking to people and gauging their shared mental images of places, this book discusses the findings for fifteen schools of design. The systematic user evaluations of the aesthetics, function, and technology reveal strengths to encourage in future designs, and weaknesses to avoid. View