By Reginald G. Golledge (auth.), Irwin Altman, Joachim F. Wohlwill (eds.)

The papers comprising this moment quantity of Human habit and the surroundings symbolize, as do their predecessors, a pass element of present paintings within the vast sector of difficulties facing interrelation­ ships among the actual atmosphere and human habit, at either the person and the combination degrees. contemplating the 2 volumes as a unit, we have now incorporated papers masking a extensive spectrum of difficulties starting from the theoretical to the utilized, and from the disciplinary-based to the interdisciplinary undefined. Approxi­ mately 1/2 the papers are written by means of psychologists, with the rest coming, partly, from such different disciplines as sociology, geography, and from such various utilized fields as common activity, panorama structure, city making plans, and opera­ tions examine. The volumes hence supply an outline of labor on present topical difficulties. but, because the box is constructing, specialization is necessarily expanding apace, and the editors in addition to the writer became confident of the desirability for futu're volumes during this sequence to be prepared alongside topical strains, with successive volumes dedicated to various points of this quite sprawling box. therefore, quantity three, at present within the drawing board, should be dedicated solely to the interplay of youngsters with the actual surroundings, thought of from assorted viewpoints, back together with authors from different fields of specialization.