The Many Facets of Human Settlements
Papers Prepared for AAAS Activities in Connection with HABITAT: The U.N. Conference on Human Settlements
Published on 18. May 2014
412 pages
978-1-4831-4872-4 (ISBN)
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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. The selection first discusses the influence of technology in shaping lifestyles, including advanced urban systems, programs on communications, and technology assessment of telecommunication-transportation interactions. Concerns include goals for the performance of human settlements and innovations for cities of the future; overview of studies and experiments pursued by the New Rural Society; and concept for a nationwide satellite communication systems to serve rural areas. The text then looks at the sources of energy in human settlements. Topics include alternatives to gas heat, coal, oil, solar heating, heat pump, and action plan. The book examines energy conservation in housing design, ecotechnologies and ecocommunities, bioshelters and their implications for lifestyle, high-rise habitat, and energy and rural development. The text also tackles industrialization and urbanization in Japan. Considerations include population density and urbanization, environmental disruption, and Japan as a postindustrial society. The selection is a vital source of data for readers interested in the issues and factors influencing human settlements.
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The Many Facets of Human Settlements
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ContentsForeword I. How Technology Shapes Lifestyles Advanced Urban Systems: A World Wide Opportunity Communications for Survival: Perspective and Proposed Programs Selected Results From A Technology Assessment of Telecommunication-Transportation Interactions Habitat and the Energy Future Energy Conservation in New Housing Design The Concept of Ecotechnologies and Ecocommunities Bioshelters and their Implications for Lifestyle High-Rise Habitat Energy and Rural Development II. Where Will All the People Live? Population Dynamics, Housing Economics, and the Future of the American Habitat Black Urban Settlement Patterns: Trends and Prospects A Stable Urban Ecosystem: Its Evolution within Densely Populated Societies The Rush to The Cities in Latin America: Government Policies Have More Effect than We Recognize Industrialization and Urbanization in Japan: The Emergence of Public Discontent Quality of Life Related to City Size The New Ruralism-A Rural Renaissance The Future of Rural Small Towns: Are They Obsolete in Post Industrial Society? Transportation and its Influence On Cities III. Housing Anyone? Housing Requirements and National Resources: Implications of the U.N. World Model Whither Site and Services? Mobile Homes: Who Lives in Them and Why? IV. Managing the Cities Taking into Account The Environment Urban Policy and Urban Systems An Ecological Approach to Urban Management The Need for Resources Recycling in Man's Urban Future The Dade Master Plan: Filling the Metropolitan Policy Vacuum New Institutions for Policy-Making: The Twin Cities Area V. Coping with City Living The Urban Predicament Coping with Stresses of an Urban Planet: Impacts of Uprooting and Overcrowding The Necessary Pathologies of an Urban World
