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A SOURCE BOOK
DESIGN REFERENCE STANDARDS.
BY JULIUS PANERO, AIA, ASIO
AND MARTIN ZELNIK, AIA, ASID
WHITNEY LIBRARY OF DESIGN
an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publicaions/New YorkDEDICATION
To that smail group of anthropologists specializing inthe feld of en-
Gineering anthropemetry, without whose expertise, vision, and
Sensitivity tothe importance of human dimension and is relationship
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD, 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 10
PREFACE, 12
INTRODUCTION, 15
A. HUMAN DIMENSION/
ANTHROPOMETRICS, 24
1. ANTHROPOMETRIC THEORY, 23
1.1 ANTHROPOMETRY, 23
4.2SOURCES OF DATA, 26
1.3 TYPE OF DATA, 27
1.4 PRESENTATION OF DATA, 31
1.5 PERCENTILES, 34
1.8 VARIABILITY AND RELIABILITY, 98
2. ANTHROPOMETRIC DATAJAPPLICATION, 37
2.1 APPROPRIATENESS, 37
2.2 "AVERAGE MAN" FALLACY, 37
2.3 REACH, CLEARANCE, AND ADJUSTABILITY, 38
2.4 THE HIDDEN DIMENSIONS, 38
2.5 PEOPLE IN MOTION, 40
2.6 RANGE OF JOINT MOTION, 43
27 RESTRAINTS, 45
3, ELDERLY AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE, 47
3.1 ELDERLY PEOPLE, 47
3.2PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE, 50
3.3 CHAIREOUND PEOPLE. 50
34 AMBULANT DISABLED PEOPLE, 5