TY - BOOK AU - Altman,Irwin AU - Bronfenbrenner,Urie AU - Charlesworth,William R. AU - Cotterell,John L. AU - Deutsch,Werner AU - Eybisch,Cornelia AU - Eye,Alexander von AU - Flade,Antje AU - Fuhrer,Urs AU - Graumann,Carl F. AU - Guski,Rainer AU - Gärling,Tommy AU - Görlitz,Dietmar AU - Günther,Hartmut AU - Günther,Isolda de Araújo AU - Harloff,Hans Joachim AU - Hart,Roger AU - Heft,Harry AU - Heine,Wolf-D. AU - Hinding,Barbara AU - Hoppe-Graff,Siegfried AU - Keller,Heidi AU - Koböck,Bettina AU - Kruse,Lenelis AU - Lang,Alfred AU - Lang,Frieder R. AU - Legendre,Alain AU - Lehnert,Simone AU - Lerner,Richard M. AU - Mey,Günter AU - Minami,Hirofumi AU - Mruck,Katja AU - Munz,Christian AU - Oerter,Rolf AU - Overton,Willis F. AU - Rauh,Hellgard AU - Ritterfeld,Ute AU - Seiler,Thomas Bernhard AU - Shpancer,Noam AU - Valsiner,Jaan AU - Wachs,Theodore D. AU - Wapner,Seymour AU - Werner,Carol M. TI - Children, Cities, and Psychological Theories: Developing Relationships T2 - International Studies on Childhood and Adolescence : ISCA SN - 9783110146035 AV - HT206 .C444 1998eb U1 - 155.4 21 PY - 2012///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Child development KW - Cities and towns KW - Psychological aspects KW - City children KW - Social ecology KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - Entwicklungspsychologie KW - Soziobiologie KW - Stadtkind KW - Ökologische Psychologie KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Keynote --; Foreword --; How it all began – Background to this book --; Part I. Prelude and dedication --; Themes in the relation between children and the city --; Children’s life worlds in urban environments --; Toward a functional ecology of behavior and development: The legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill --; Part II. Exposition of theoretical perspectives --; Introduction --; A. Levels of relationship – As they appear in different cultures --; Introduction --; A dialectical/transactional framework of social relations: Children in secondary territories --; Comment: Proving philosophy!? --; Authors’ response: Translating a world view --; A contextualist perspective on child-environment relations --; Comment: Clarifying fusion --; Child development and environment: A constructivist perspective --; Comment: Constructivist potentialities and limitations --; Author’s response: Following Aristotle --; Integration: What environment? Which relationship? --; Β. Transactional, holistic, and relational-developmental perspectives on children in the cities --; Introduction --; Transactionalism --; Comment: Transactionalism – What could it be? --; Author’s response: Is Lang going beyond? --; A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective: Child-environment relations --; Comment: Werner augmented --; Relational-developmental theory: A psychological perspective --; Comment: From the general to the individual or from the individual to the general? --; Author’s response: General and individual – A relation --; Integration: Dimensions of a conceptual space – But for what? --; C. Modern versions of Barker’s ecological psychology and the phenomenological perspective --; Introduction --; Children’s environments: The phenomenological approach --; Comment: Don’t forget the subjects – An approach against environmentalism --; Authors’ response: Reading a text – A case study in perspectivity --; Commentators’ reply: Seductive sciences --; Behavior settings in macroenvironments: Implications for the design and analysis of places --; Comment: Behavior setting revitalized --; Behavior settings as vehicles of children’s cultivation --; Comment: Behavior settings forever! --; Integration: Ecological psychology and phenomenology – Their commonality, differences, and interrelations --; D. Sociobiology, attachment theory, and ecological psychology – Marching towards the city --; Introduction --; Exploratory behavior, place attachment, genius loci, and childhood concepts: Elements of understanding children’s interactions with their environments --; Comment: Gender are two --; Author’s response:... but different ones --; Children in cities: An ethological/sociobiological approach --; Comment: And ethology? --; Author’s response: Adaptive variations and the individual --; Street traffic, children, and the extended concept of affordance as a means of shaping the environment --; Comment: Children as perceivers and actors – The view from ecological realism --; Authors’ response: Environmental design means the design of affordances --; Commentator’s reply: The extended concept reconsidered --; Integration: The path to integration is not straight --; Reflections: What has happened in treading the path toward a psychological theory of children and their cities --; Part III. The Finale --; Integrating youth- and context-focused research and outreach: A developmental contextual model --; The young and the old in the city: Developing intergenerational relationships in urban environments --; Where we are – A discussion --; Appendix --; Biographical notes --; Subject index --; Author index; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110885194 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110885194 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110885194/original ER -