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Human Settlements: The Environmental Challenge.

(A Compendium of United Nations Papers Prepared for the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, 1972.)Pp. xvi+209. (Macmillan: London and Basingstoke, March 1974.) £5.95.

Man, Materials, and Environment.

National Academy of Sciences: National Academy of Engineering. Pp. xviii+236. (MIT: Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1973.) $3.95.

Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values.

By Yi-Fu Tuan. Pp.x+260. (Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, January 1974.) $8.95 cloth; $4.95 paper.

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COLE, H. City life. Nature 250, 797–798 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/250797a0

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