The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Environment

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Frontmatter -- SECTION ONE: General Papers -- Introduction -- Sociocultural Aspects of Man-Environment Studies / RAPOPORT, AMOS -- The Social Function of the Built Environment / GUTMAN, ROBERT -- Cultural Pluralism and Urban Form: The Colonial City as Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research in Man-Environment Interaction / KING, A. D. -- How Can We Learn about Man and His Settlements? / DOXIADIS, C. A. -- SECTION TWO: Human Characteristics -- Introduction -- Design for Man-Environment Relations / ESSER, ARISTIDE H. -- Human Territoriality as an Object of Research in Cultural Anthropology / GREVERUS, INA-MARIA -- The Social Properties of Places and Things / McBRIDE, G. / CLANCY, H. -- Some Territorial Layouts in the United States / SCHEFLEN, ALBERT E. -- SECTION THREE: Environments -- Introduction -- A Description of the Maori Marae / AUSTIN, M. R. -- Peasant House Building and Its Relation to Church Building: The Rumanian Case / STAHL, ANCA / STAHL, PAUL-HENRI -- SECTION FOUR: Mechanisms -- Introduction -- Analysis of a Culture Through Its Culturemes: Theory and Method / POYATOS, FERNANDO -- A Decision Model for Estimating Concurrent School Attendance among Tribal Peoples of Liberia, Together with an Application Regarding Differential Cognitions Toward Traditional Housing / BECKMAN, JAMES -- Housing Standards versus Ecological Forces: Regulating Population Density in Bombay / CHOLDIN, HARVEY M. -- Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture / KAMAU, LUCY JAYNE -- Values, Science, and Settlement: A Case Study in Environmental Control / KING, A. D. -- Landscape and the Communication of Social Identity / DUNCAN, JAMES S. -- SECTION FIVE: Case Studies -- Introduction -- Residential Patterns and Population Movement into the Farmlands of Yorubaland / OLUSANYA, PHILIP O. -- A Process of Urbanization: Economic and Social Innovations in a Suburban Village at Fukuyama, Japan / OMORI, MOTOYOSHI -- Preindustrial Kabul: Its Structure and Function in Transformational Processes in Afghanistan / HANIFI, M. JAMIL -- Problems Involved in the Human Aspects of Rural Resettlement Schemes in Egypt / TADROS, HELMI R. -- SECTION SIX: Conclusion -- Conclusion / RAPOPORT, AMOS -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects