Two Studies of Crowding in Urban Public Spaces

Abstract

she has been employed by the New York City Housing Development Adminis-tration. Her main research interests concern problems of housing. SHEREE WEST, also a member of the Environmental Psychology Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center, is interested in the areas of recreational planning, leisure environments, children’s media presentations of the environment, and information processing in environments. SUSAN SAEGERT is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, in the Environmental Psychology Program. Her research has included field and laboratory studies of crowding, a study of the redesign of a psychiatric ward in a large urban hospital, and work on the differen-tial experiences of girls and boys in the development of environmental competence. In the past few years, an increasing amount of research has been directed toward discovering the psychological effects of high density. Most people who have lived in cities and have used crowded facilities find high density situations at least somewhat

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