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Human Behavior and the Built Environment

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    This course aims to teach students that human behaviour is designed to prepare students for why people act and communicate the way they do. The course addresses the four most prevalent types of motivation: the influence of other people, the environment, psychological factors and individual personalities. Students learn real-life examples of human behaviour that illustrate each point. Having endowed on the mutual relationship between the built environment and human behaviour, the course objective is to provide an in-depth understanding, addressing, analysing and diagnosing this relationship. It will then continue with several advanced topics in the field.
  • Course Goals
  • No Poverty
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Human aspect in the design process from interior design, architectural design, landscape, to urban design scale, topics include human needs in physical space, cognition and navigation, personal space and territory, human behavior, behavioral mapping, design for behavioral change, environmental stressors, biophilic and topophilic design, crime prevention through environmental design, personalization, adaptation, and optimization of spaces, human scale, advances in environmental psychology
  • Arabic Description

    Human aspect in the design process from interior design, architectural design, landscape, to urban design scale, topics include human needs in physical space, cognition and navigation, personal space and territory, human behavior, behavioral mapping, design for behavioral change, environmental stressors, biophilic and topophilic design, crime prevention through environmental design, personalization, adaptation, and optimization of spaces, human scale, advances in environmental psychology
  • Department
    Urban Planning
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 10% , tr.Seminar 30% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 1, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
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