How Big and Still Beautiful? Macro-Engineering Revisited

Introduction: Dilemmas of Scale and the Training of Future Engineer-Managers -- Evaluating the Impacts -- Finance, Management and Control -- Macro-Projects and Macro-Finance -- Evaluation of Macro-Systems: Models and Case Analysis -- Macro-Engineering: How to Decide -- Managing Macro-Development: Policy, Planning and Control System Implications -- Values, Psychology and the Decision Process -- On Large-Scale Undertakings and Human Values -- A Psychiatrist Reflects on Macro-Engineering -- Macro-Engineering and Social Psychiatry -- How Big and Still Beautiful? A Reprise -- Cases in Point: Land, Sea and Aerospace -- Transforming the Urban and Rural Environments -- Macro-Project in West Africa: Planning Nigeria's New Capital -- Cities of the Future: The Maritime Dimension -- The Future of Rural Technology -- Perspectives on Tansportation -- The Erie Canal: Macro-Engineering When the World Was Still Simple -- The Future of Large Airships -- Global Transport Systems for the Turn of the Century -- Solar Power Satellites and Automation in Space -- Solar Energy Economics: Orbiting Reflectors for World Energy -- Robots and Automation in the Space Program