As a developmental psychologist with a strong interest in children's re� sponse to the physical environment, I take particular pleasure in writing a foreword to the present volume. It provides impressive evidence of the con� cern that workers in environmental psychology and environmental design are displaying for the child as a user of the designed environment and indi� cates a recognition of the need to apply theory and findings from develop� mental and environmental psychology to the design of environments for children. This seems to me to mark a shift in focus and concern from the earlier days of the interaction between environmental designers and psy� chologists that occurred some two decades ago and provided the impetus for the establishment of environmental psychology as a subdiscipline. Whether because children-though they are consumers of designed environments� are not the architect's clients or because it seemed easier to work with adults who could be asked to make ratings of environmental spaces and comment on them at length, a focus on the child in interaction with en� vironments was comparatively slow in developing in the field of environ� ment and behavior. As the chapters of the present volume indicate, that situation is no longer true today, and this is a change that all concerned with the well-being and optimal functioning of children will welcome.

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