Environmental Psychology
Environmental Psychology was founded in a defining year, 1968, at the City University of New York Graduate Center. It has since spread throughout the globe and can be said to be invisible because it has melted into mainstream psychology.
I often answer the question “So what is environmental psychology?” with the following:
This discipline is the study of the inter-relationship of people and their built, natural and online environments. In the words of my colleague, “I define environmental psychology as how people relate to and define spaces and places and how space and places relate to and define people. I take as my starting point Lefebvre’s argument that ‘[social] space is [socially] produced.’”
I hope we (environmental psychologists) will soon have an updated CUNY department website as well as an updated and clear wikipedia entry.
