Review: The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America and The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York

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Book Review| June 01 2022 Review: The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America and The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Joy Knoblauch The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, 264 pp., 72 b/w illus. $55 (cloth), ISBN 9780822945734Mariana Mogilevich The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 240 pp., 10 color and 75 b/w illus. $124 (cloth), ISBN 9781517905750; $30 (paper), ISBN 9781517905767 Susanne Schindler Susanne Schindler ETH Zurich Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022) 81 (2): 247–250. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.2.247 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Susanne Schindler; Review: The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America and The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2022; 81 (2): 247–250. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.2.247 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Two new books, similar in size and structure, explore the relationships among social science research, design, and users’ experiences of the built environment. The central concern of both books is the question of how architects and their clients have used psychological, ethnographic, or sociological studies to legitimate design proposals, and in turn to effect behavioral change. In The Architecture of Good Behavior, Joy Knoblauch focuses on the design of institutions across the United States from 1945 to the mid-1970s, in particular those that exert governmental power through the application of expertise and a certain measure of coercion—namely, institutions of health care, criminal justice, and housing. In The Invention of Public Space, Mariana Mogilevich looks at how people negotiate citizenship and selfhood through the open spaces between buildings, including plazas, playgrounds, streets, and parks, analyzing projects in New York City conceived during John Lindsay’s mayoral administration (1966–73). The two... You do not currently have access to this content.