Our very own Dr. Roger Hart was featured on NPR Podcast, Invisibilia, a podcast that explores the intangible forces that shape human behavior – things like ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions. The particular episode that featured Roger, entitled Fearless, aired on January 16, 2015. In the podcast Roger discusses his research conducted in Vermont which investigates …
Category: Faculty
Dr. Susan Saegert publishes piece on low income housing policy
Susan Saegert, faculty and chair of the Environmental Psychology program at the CUNY Graduate Center, recently published a piece entitled: ‘Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy‘ for Metropolitics, a peer-reviewed online journal that specializes in publishing concise pieces on pressing urban issues. In her piece, Saegert discusses past approaches to housing lower income households …
Dr. Susan Saegert receives the 2015 Newman-Proshansky Career Achievement Award for Division 34
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Saegert has been selected to receive the 2015 Newman-Proshansky Career Achievement Award for Division 34 of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology. The faculty and students in the Environmental Psychology program agree that this is a wonderful and much deserved …
Dr. Setha Low, Professor of Environmental Psychology, comments on creating diverse public spaces
Wanted: More (and Better) Discourse on Designing Diverse Communities “Broadening our understanding of how different groups interact with their physical environments would be a great first step.” Link to CityLab article
Announcing the launch of The People, Place, & Space Reader!
We are excited to announce the launch of the website, PeoplePlaceSpace.org, for the forthcoming The People, Place, & Space Reader, edited by Jen Jack Gieseking and William Mangold, with Cindi Katz, Setha Low, and Susan Saegert. The People, Place, and Space Reader includes both classic writings and contemporary research, connecting scholarship across disciplines, periods, and …