Title & Author:

Urban planning for arid zones : American experiences and directions / Gideon Golany, editor.

Publication:

New York : Wiley, ©1978.

Description:

xxii, 245 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm

Series:

Wiley-Interscience publication

Notes:
"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The unique features of arid zones / Gideon Golany, Helmut E. Landsberg -- Man's responsed to the arid ecosystem / Eliezer Kamon, John I. Yellott, Daniel Aiello, Robert B. Bechtel, William H. Ittelson, Lawrence Wheeler -- Social and economic problems and prospects / Courtney B. Cleland, Leonard Gordon, Allen V. Kneese -- Designing life-support systems / Stanley F. Gilman, Richard L. Crowther, Daniel Hillel, Jerome H. Rothenberg, Matthew J. Betz -- Physical forms for arid zones / Bradford Perkins, Guy S. Greene, Jeffrey Cook.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Collects studies by 19 contributors in diverse fields that define the problems of urban planning in arid climates, along with proposed solutions.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0471029483
9780471029489

Subject:

City planning United States.
Arid regions United States.
Urbanisme États-Unis.
Régions arides États-Unis.
Arid regions.
City planning.
Stadtplanung
Trockengebiet
Aufsatzsammlung
United States.
USA
Arid regions United States Addresses, essays, lectures
City planning United States Addresses, essays, lectures

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Golany, Gideon.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 85127
Call No.: 2608; ID:86-B16630
Status: Available