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Kaye, Gifford, and other interested E&B ers: I recently wrote to R. Wener
alerting him to the letter to the editor from Amos Raporort in the latest
copy of drn (i.e., Design Research Newsletter). I indicated to R.W. that
Raporort's letter raised significant points, particularly about the declining
presence of E&B research in EDRA. If it can be characterized in no other ways,
and, of course, it can, Raporort's research can be designated as conceptually
provocative!!! Much of it takes off from, integrates, elaborates, or interprets
work done by others and is essential to the knowledg base of EDRA.
Consider, for example, his latest: HISTORY AND
PRECEDENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, Plenum, 1990; or his THE MEANING IN THE
BUILT ENVIRONMENT, Sage, 1982. And what of the works of Ittelson, Moore,
Stokals, Zube, Golledge, Downs, Stea, Altman, Kaplans, Craik, Howell, Kantrowit
z, C.C. Marcus, Brill, Reizenstein, Barker, Archea, Bechtel and too many
others to list here. These are the people that laid down the knowledge base
and thereby defined the nature of EDRA with their research efforts and results.
Are we losing that strong E&B reseach tradition that Raporort and these other
scholars collectively created in the EDRA organization?  Doug. Amedeo