Papers presented at a pre-Congress conference of the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sociocultural aspects of man-environment studies / Amos Rapoport -- The social function of the built environment / Robert Gutman -- Cultural pluralism and urban form : the colonial city as laboratory for cross-cultural research in man-environment interaction / A. D. King -- How can we learn about man and his settlements? / C. A. Doxiadis -- Design for man-environment relations / Aristide H. Esser -- Human territoriality as an object of research in cultural anthropology / Ina-Marie Greverus -- The social properties of places and things / G. McBride and H. Clancy -- Some territorial layouts in the United States / Albert E. Scheflen -- A description of the Maori Marae / M. R. Austin -- Peasant house building and its relation to church building : the Rumanian case / Anca Stahl and Paul-Henri Stahl -- Analysis of a culture through its culturemes : theory and method / Fernando Poyatos -- A decision model for estimating concurrent school attendance among tribal peoples of Liberia, together with an application regarding differential cognitions toward traditional housing / James Beckman -- Housing standards versus ecological forces : regulating population density in Bombay / Harvey M. Choldin -- Conceptual patterns in Yoruba culture / Lucy Jayne Kamau -- Values, science, and settlement : a case study in environmental control / A. D. King -- Landscape and the communication of social identity / James S. Duncan, Jr. -- Residential patterns and population movement in the farmlands of Yorubaland / Philip O. Olusanya -- A process of urbanization : economic and social innovations in a suburban village at Fukuyama, Japan / Motoyoshi Omori -- Preindustrial Kabul : its structure and function in transformational processes in Afghanistan / M. Jamil Hanifi -- Problems involved in the human aspects of rural resettlement schemes in Egypt / Helmi R. Tadros.