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Paul Mwangi Maringa & Philip Ochieng Okello, 2007ISBN-13 :9781479309702/ISBN-10: 1479309702

Imageability in edifices insinuates powerful images in peoples psyche. In the built

environment, it therefore serves to interpret seminal meanings of buildings to users. It is alegible, subtly obtrusive mental picture that can be easily singled out or identified, beingcogent, distinctive, and outstanding. Imageability has the sense of shape, colour, andspatial arrangements. In this sense, it is able to contrive forms of lucidly discernible,compulsively ordered and vastly valuable, and therefore empathetic mental images of theenvironment. Imageability produces critical meaning and a sense of place. Imageabilitywhen well captured in design can integrate the built environment to its social and physicalcontext. It is a good instrument to recapture lost harmony between man and his livingenvirons, overcoming potential conflicts or hostility, where society is happy to participate

in the vitality of buildings. These are the ideas that are explored here in an empiricalenvironmental behaviour inquiry that is conducted in a local context in order to set outeasily repeatable instructive guidelines for practitioners.

Paul Mwangi Maringa (PhD), the principal author of thisresearch monograph is an Associate Professor of

Architecture and Planning. He has taught variously inDiploma, Degree, and Graduate theory and portfoliocourses in the Department Architecture at the JomoKenyatta University of agriculture and Technology(JKUAT) in Juja, Kenya for 14 years; and also in the

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering atthe Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST),Kigali, Rwanda, for 2 years. He pursues the growth ofknowledge in the disciplines of Architectural Design andBehavioural underpinnings, Urban Growth Managementand Sustainability. Dr Maringa is a registered Architectwith the Board of registration of Architects and QuantitySurveyors of Kenya (BORAQS). He is a CorporateMember of the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK-

Architects Chapter), and a Graduate Member of theArchitectural Association of Kenya (AAK-Town PlanningChapter). He is also a Graduate Member of the KenyaInstitute of Planners (KIP). His professional and

academic career teaching in University that spans thelast 22 years has covered Kenya, The Kingdom of

Swaziland, and Rwanda.

Philip Ochieng Okello (B.Arch Hons), thesupporting author of this researchmonograph is an a graduate student in theNagoya Institute of Technology, GraduateSchool of Engineering, Department of

Architecture, Civil Engineering and

Industrial Management Engineering, wherehe is undertaking research in Architectureand Urban Micro-climates, specifically onUrban Heat Islands. He has variedexposure to professional practice in Kenyaand Tanzania, most recently with the firmof K & M Archplans. He also is a graduateMember of the Architectural Association ofKenya (AAK-Architects Chapter), and hastaught studio for a while as a teachingassistant in the Jomo Kenyatta Universityof Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT),Kenya.