Habitat. : human settlements in an urban age / by Angus M. Gunn.

• Front Cover; Habitat:Human Settlements in an Urban Age; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; The Issues of Habitat; CHAPTER ONE. Rural-Urban System; Spaceship Earth; Rural - Urban Systems; Canadian Inuit; Kuwait; Israel; Megalopolis and Ecumenopolis; Identify the issues; CHAPTER TWO. Urban Frontier; Why People become Squatters; Trends in Government Approaches; Metropolitan Manila; Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; Nairobi; The American Ghetto; City Origins; Industrial Revolution; The Modern Phase; Microclimates; Identify the Issues; CHAPTER THREE. Rural Stagnation; Water. 
• Rural - Urban MigrationTanzania; China; Indian Subcontinent; Bangladesh; Identify the issues; CHAPTER FOUR. Bangladesh; Rural Settlement Patterns; Urban Centres; Environmental Conditions; Natural Hazards; Coping with the Urban Immigrants; Identify the Issues; CHAPTER FIVE. Population; Counting People; World Birth and Death Rates; Age-Sex Graphs; Population Control; Singapore; Indonesia; Education; Health; Genetic Engineering; Identify the issues; CHAPTER SIX. Poor and Rich; Board of Chance; North and South America; Africa; Islam; Women; Handicapped; Tackling Poverty; Identify the Issues. 
• CHAPTER SEVEN. Life SupportMalnutrition; Women and Food; World Grain Consumption; Shelter; Zambia Self-help Housing; Sweden Sites and Services Housing; Singapore Public Housing; Identify the Issues; CHAPTER ELEVEN. Planning for Tomorrow; Britain: New Towns; Netherlands; New Polder Planning; Dodoma; Munich; The Tetrahedronal City; Ecumenopolis; Space Colonies; Identify the Issues; CHAPTER TWELVE. The First Step; Identify The Issues; Some Facts and Figures; Introductory Bibliography; Index. 

• Habitat

Ämnesord

Human ecology.  (LCSH)

Cities and towns.  (LCSH)

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301.36 (DDC)

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