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Explain the concept of ‘Environmental design’.

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Ans.     The built environment usually involves the concept of ‘environment design’. The idea of ‘design’ contains some psychological features, such as.

The creativity of the human mind as expressed in the work of architects, town planners and civil engineers.

The sense of human control over the natural environment as shown in the building of dams to regulate the natural flow of rivers.

The influence on the kind of social interaction that takes place in the designed environment. This feature is reflected, for instant, in the distance between houses in a colony, the location of rooms within a home or in the arrangement of work desks and seats in an official setting for formal or informal gathering.