This book was first published in 1977.
Part One: A Psychological Scenario
1. Strategy and apologia
2. Environment as medium
3. The passive environment?
4. Monotony in reverse
5. Mind before environment
6. The attitudinal model
7. Left, right and centre
8. Images in still waters
9. Emotional needs and remedies
10. Viva vulgarity! and other limbic values
11. Line and shape
12. Colour and texture
Part Two: Towards a Concept of Value
13. The aesthetic matrix
14. Values in the aesthetic equation
15. Aesthetics and emotion
16. The aesthetics of symbolism
17. Idealized distance
18. Inductive space
19. The gate and the arch
20. The maze factor and urban accents
21. Socially intensive urban space
22. Epitome urbanism
Part Three: From Theory to Practice
23. The city and optimal mutation
24. Images and fantasies
25. The architect and the city
26. Recent endeavours
27. Interstitial architecture
28. Interstitial tactics
29. Urban contrasts
30. Encore to aesthetics
31. Towards the 'care and culture of man'
Biography
Peter F. Smith (University of Nottingham and Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
