Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas-long out of print-has been extensively revised and updated. It now includes rates of delinquents and rates of commitments for the city of Chicago over a period …
Urban Social Segregation covers the frontier where the spatial aspects of sociology overlap the social aspects of geography. It collects, with a full-scale introduction, a series of papers on the s…
Community organization is found wherever people have learned to live together. In simple societies it rests upon customs or traditional ways of regulating social relationships. These customs have c…
The global market for oil and gas resources is rapidly changing. Three major trendsthe rise of new consumers, the increasing influence of state players, and concerns about climate changeare com…
This Urbanization Primer was originally a compilation of notes recording observations as well as work experiences over several years. In 1976, these notes were focused in a Primer for site and serv…
Transportation is an important sector of society in which many decisions must be made. In the search for the right decisions to be taken, mathematical techniques for transport network optimization …
The Centre for Urban Studies was entrusted in August, 1974 with the job of preparing a Survey Report on the Urban Squatters of Dacca, Chitta gong and Khulna. The Survey was sponsored by the Urban D…
Studying the environment, planning for land use, and designing structures in it is a complex process, calling for the skills of planners, landscape architects, civil engineers, natural scientists, …
The student of population growth and its consequences finds himself compelled, whether he likes it or not, to assemble information from the diverse fields (to name them in the order in which they a…
Public programs to intervene in the private land use market are designed to achieve land use and distribution of costs and benefits much different from those which would prevail under market condit…