Screen LibraryThe Many facets of human settlements : science and society : papers prepared for AAAS activities in connection with HABITAT, the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements /
The Many Facets of Human Settlements: Science and Society focuses on communications, energy, and planning and design issues besetting human settlements. The book also tackles rural and urban development, types of habitats, industrialization, and lifestyles.
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Pergamon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1977. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080219943 |
| Summary: |
The Many Facets of Human Settlements: Science and Society focuses on communications, energy, and planning and design issues besetting human settlements. The book also tackles rural and urban development, types of habitats, industrialization, and lifestyles. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vi, 405 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-405). |
| ISBN: |
9780080219943 0080219942 9781483148724 1483148726 |
| Index Number: | HT107 |
| CLC: | C912.81-532 |
| Contents: |
How technology shapes lifestyles. Advanced urban systems : a world wide opportunity / John P. Eberhard -- Communications for survival : perspective and proposed programs / Peter C. Goldmark, Bonnie Kraig and Andrea Eginton -- Selected results from a technology assessment of telecommunication-transportation interactions / Richard C. Harkness -- Habitat and the energy future / Herbert H. Swinburne -- Energy conservation in new housing design / J.E. Snell, P.R. Achenbach and S.R. Petersen -- The concept of ecotechnologies and ecocommunities / Murray Bookchin -- Bioshelters and their implications for lifestyle / Nancy Jack Todd -- High-rise habitat / Lynn S. Beedle -- Energy and rural development / Roger Revelle -- Where will all the people live? Population dynamics, housing economics, and the future of the American habitat / George Grier -- Black urban settlement patterns : trends and prospects / Herrington Bryce, Ernest Erber and Phillip L. Clay -- A stable urban ecosystem : its evolution within densely populated societies / Richard L. Meier. (cont.) The rush to the cities in Latin America : government policies have more effect that we recognize / Frederick C. Turner -- Industrialization and urbanization in Japan : the emergency of public discontent / John W. Bennett and Solomon B. Levine -- Quality of life related to city size / Irving Hoch -- The new ruralism / William N. Ellis and Odom Fanning -- The future of rural small towns : are they obsolete in post-industrial society? / Vary T. Coates -- Transportation and its influence on cities / F.L. Hassler -- Housing anyone? Housing requirements and national resources : implications of the U.N. world model / T.R. Lakshmanan, Lata Chatterjee and P. Roy -- Whither site and services? / Aprodicio A. Laquian -- Mobile homes : who lives in them and why? / Margaret J. Drury -- Managing the cities-- taking into account the environment. Urban policy and urban systems / Ross D. Davis -- An ecological approach to urban management / Jack Linville. (cont.) The need for resource recycling in man's urban future / Rocco A. Petrone -- The Dade master plan : filling the metropolitan policy vacuum / Luther J. Carter -- New institutions for policy-making : the Twin Cities area / Ted Kolderie -- Coping with city living. The urban predicament / William Gorham and Nathan Glazer -- Coping with stresses of an urban planet : impacts of uprooting and overcrowding / George V. Coelho and Jane J. Stein -- The necessary pathologies of an urban world / Joseph Coates. |