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I-XVI -- SECTION ONE: General Papers -- Introduction -- Sociocultural Aspects of Man-Environment Studies -- The Social Function of the Built Environment -- Cultural Pluralism and Urban Form: The Colonial City as Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research in Man-Environment Interaction -- How Can We Learn about Man and His Settlements? -- SECTION TWO: Human Characteristics -- Introduction -- Design for Man-Environment Relations -- Human Territoriality as an Object of Research in Cultural Anthropology -- The Social Properties of Places and Things -- Some Territorial Layouts in the United States -- SECTION THREE: Environments -- Introduction -- A Description of the Maori Marae -- Peasant House Building and Its Relation to Church Building: The Rumanian Case -- SECTION FOUR: Mechanisms -- Introduction -- Analysis of a Culture Through Its Culturemes: Theory and Method -- A Decision Model for Estimating Concurrent School Attendance among Tribal Peoples of Liberia, Together with an Application Regarding Differential Cognitions Toward Traditional Housing -- Housing Standards versus Ecological Forces: Regulating Population Density in Bombay -- Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture -- Values, Science, and Settlement: A Case Study in Environmental Control -- Landscape and the Communication of Social Identity -- SECTION FIVE: Case Studies -- Introduction -- Residential Patterns and Population Movement into the Farmlands of Yorubaland -- A Process of Urbanization: Economic and Social Innovations in a Suburban Village at Fukuyama, Japan -- Preindustrial Kabul: Its Structure and Function in Transformational Processes in Afghanistan -- Problems Involved in the Human Aspects of Rural Resettlement Schemes in Egypt -- SECTION SIX: Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects