Prof. Arza Churchman is Professor Emeritus in the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. She is a pioneer in the field of environmental psychology, which examines the interactions between the socio-physical environment and the behavior and attitudes of people. She served for six years as the President of the International Association for People-Environment Studies and is on the editorial board of important international journals, such as Environment and Behavior, the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research and the Journal of Planning Literature. Her research interests are: Housing Issues, including Indicators of Quality of Life, Density and Its Planning Implications, High Rise Housing, Neighborhood Planning, including Open Space Issues; The Particular Environmental Needs of Women, Children, the Elderly, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, People with Handicaps; and Public Participation in Planning. She has published widely on these topics and co-edited the Handbook of Environmental Psychology that was published by Wiley in 2002.