The 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Office of International Science
Otros Autores: Tinker, Irene, Buvini�c, Mayra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1977.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Cities and towns > Congresses.
Human ecology > Congresses.
Environmental policy > Congresses.
Villes > Congr�es.
�Ecologie humaine > Congr�es.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Congr�es.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Cities and towns
Environmental policy
Human ecology
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congr�es.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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