Other Publications by Wendy Sarkissian

Housing as if People Mattered:

Illustrated Site Planning Guidelines for Medium-Density Family Housing

Clare Cooper Marcus and Wendy Sarkissian (1986). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wendy and Clare, 1986

Recipient of the Progressive Architecture Citation for Architectural Research

This book is a collection of guidelines for the site design of low-rise, high-density family housing.

It is intended as a reference tool, primarily for housing designers and planners, but also for developers, housing authorities, citizens’ groups, and tenants’ organizations-anyone involved in planning or rehabilitating housing.

It provides guidelines for the layout of buildings, open spaces, community facilities, play areas, walk ways, and the myriad components that make up a housing site.

We developed this book with the view that life is better in environments that are appropriate to people’s needs and congruent with their values.

Still in print after 25 years and widely used as a textbook, it remains a valued tool for housing design practitioners to this day.

This book was co-authored with Clare Cooper Marcus, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, a specialist in the social and psychological factors in the design of housing and public open space.

Front Gate Privacy from "Housing as if People Mattered", 1986

A quotation from the book:
If there is also a bias in favor of access for disabled persons in the book, I take credit for it. Certainly the years I spent at Berkeley working on research projects studying barrier-free design dramatically changed my views about access. I now see barriers to access for disabled people everywhere. We have conscientiously attempted to remove them – and the stereotypes they often reflect – in this book. -Wendy Sarkissian, 1986

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Community Participation in Practice (1994-2003)

This suite of award-winning books (and one video), published by the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, is now out of print.

Some copies may still be available. Contact Wendy Sarkissian for information: wendy@sarkissian.com.au

Here is a list of all the publications in the suite:

Community Participation in Practice

  1. Wendy Sarkissian, Beauford Stenberg and Angela Hirst with Steph Walton (2003). Community Participation in Practice: New Directions. Perth: Murdoch University, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy.
  2. Wendy Sarkissian, Andrea Cook and Kelvin Walsh (1997). Community Participation in Practice: A Practical Guide. Perth: Murdoch University, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy.
  3. Wendy Sarkissian and Kelvin Walsh (1994). Community Participation in Practice: Workshop Checklist. Perth: Murdoch University, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy. Second edition, September 2000.
  4. Wendy Sarkissian and Kelvin Walsh, eds. (1994). Community Participation in Practice: Casebook. Perth: Murdoch University, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy.
  5. Wendy Sarkissian and Donald Perlgut, eds., with Kelvin Walsh (1986). The Community Participation Handbook. Sydney: Impacts Press. Second edition published by Murdoch University, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, 1994.
  6. Wendy Sarkissian and Kelvin Walsh, Producers (1994). Community Participation in Practice: Listening to all the Voices. Perth: Murdoch University, 28 minutes. Directed by Jennifer Gherardi. Out of print.

Selected Other Publications

List of All Wendy’s Publications

For a list of all Wendy’s publications, click here:Wendy Sarkissian publications March 2011