By Edward T. Hall
An exam of assorted cultural options of house and the way adjustments between them impact smooth society. Introducing the technology of "proxemics," corridor demonstrates how man's use of house can have an effect on own company family, cross-cultural exchanges, structure, urban making plans, and concrete renewal
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It is plain I cannot mean that what I see is a mile off, or that it is an image or likeness of anything which is a mile off, since that every step I take towards it the appearance alters, and from being obscure, small, and faint, grows large, clear and vigorous. And when I come to the mile's end, that which I saw first is quite lost, neither do I find anything in the likeness of it. Berkeley was describing the highly self-conscious visual field of the scientist and the artist. " However, as the psychologist James Gibson has pointed out, there is an interplay between vision and body knowledge (kinesthesia) that was not recognized by Berkeley.
Even though the passengers were no closer together, the crowding was much more noticeable. The significant factor that changed was the heat. When thermal spheres overlap and people can also smell each other, they are not only much more involved but, if the Bruce effect mentioned in Chapter III has meaning for humans, they may even be under the chemical influence of each other's emotions. Several of my subjects voiced the sentiments of many non-contact peoples (the ones who avoid touching strangers) when they said that they hated to sit in upholstered THE HIDDEN DIMENSION PERCEPTION OF SPACE: IMMEDIATE RECEPTORS chairs immediately after they had been vacated by someone else.
Two groups with which I have had some experience—the Japanese and the Arabs—have much higher tolerance for crowding in public spaces and in conveyances than do Americans and northern Europeans. However, Arabs and Japanese are apparently more concerned about their own requirements for the spaces they live in than are Americans. The Japanese, in particular, devote much time and attention to the proper or- 62 THE HIDDEN DIMENSION ganization of their living space for perception by all their senses.