Rapoport A. The meaning of the built environment

University of Arizona Press, 1990. — 253 p. — ISBN10: 0816511764; ISBN13: 978-0816511761.The Meaning of the Built Environment is a lively illustrated study of the meanings of everyday buildings for their users. Professor Rapoport uses examples and vignettes, drawn from many cultures and historical eras as well as contemporary America, to explicate a new framework for understanding how the built environment comes to have meaning, both for individual people and whole societies.The Importance of Meaning
Ihe Study of Meaning
Elnvironmental Meaning. Preliminary Considerations
Nonverbal Communication and Environmental Meaning
Small-Scale Examples of Applications
Urban Examples of Applications
Environment, Meaning, and Communication