Research Catalog

Title

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 / editors, Irene Tinker and Mayra Buvinić.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1977.

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Details

Additional Authors

• American Association for the Advancement of Science. Office of International Science.
• Buvinić, Mayra.
• Tinker, Irene.

Description

vi, 405 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Cities and towns > Congresses
• Environmental policy > Congresses
• Human ecology > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Symposium sponsored by the Office of International Science of the American Association for the Advancement of Science during the AAAS annual meeting held in Boston, Feb. 18-24, 1976.
• Also issued by Pergamon Press as v. 2, no. 1-4, of Habitat.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 403-405.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0080219942

LCCN

^^^77006307^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library