Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part A : Overview : quality of urban life
  • Introduction / Dieter Frick
  • The new urban crisis / Manuel Castells
  • Psycological aspects of the quality of urban life / Harold M. Proshansky and Abbe K. Fabian
  • On cities, design, and people / Gabriele Scimemi
  • Part B : Social networks
  • Introduction / Rainer Mackensen
  • Social networks and the quality of life / Bernhard Badura
  • Social networks in urban neighbourhoods / Wolfgang Sodeur
  • Network procedures / J. Clyde Mitchell
  • Part C : Ethnic minorities
  • Introduction / Ute Schonpflug and Rainer K. Silbereisen
  • The pattern of acculturation amongst Asian and Caribbean descended youth in Britain / John Rex
  • Acculturation in urban areas : migrant workers and the settlement of Turks in West Berlin / Czarina Wilpert
  • Part D : Man
  • environment relations
  • Introduction / Dieter Frick and Hans-Wolfgang Hoefert
  • The use and design of open spaces in urban neighbourhoods / Amos Rapoport
  • Aesthetics, communication and use : perspectives for urban open spaces / Thomas Sieverts
  • An ecological approach to urban environment perception / Mirilia Bonnes
  • Psychological identity of and identification with urban neighbourhoods / Gerhard Schneider
  • Part E : Mental health
  • Introduction / Heiner Legewie and Peter M. Wiedemann
  • New York City's open space system : the process of evolution / Tom Fox
  • The reform of health and psychiatric services in relation to the quality of urban life : experiences in the region of Piedmont and in the city of Turin / Agostino Pirella
  • From the social movement towards the socio-cultural movement : the example of Amsterdam / Roland Gunter.