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050			_aNA 6231.5 .H86 1977
245		0	_aHuman response to tall buildings / _cedited by Donald J. Conway
260			_aStroudsburg, Pennsylvannia : _bDowden, Hutchinson & Ross, _cc1977
300			_axii, 362 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aSeries editor's foreword -- Introduction -- Sketchbook notes - human responses to tall buildings -- Part I: Commentary and overview: -- 1. Tall buildings and the quality of urban life -- 2. Social research on tall habitats: a critique and proposal for network analysis -- Part II. The tall building and its neighborhood: -- 3. The impact of high-rise structures on the community -- 4. The impact of tall buildings on users and neighbors -- 5. Human response to tall building motion -- 6. Urban office buildings: view variables -- 7. High-rise buildings versus San Francisco: measuring visual and symbolic impacts -- 8. High-rise visual impact -- 9. High-rise impacts on the use of parks and plazas -- 10. High-rise impact on city and neighborhood livability -- Part III. Housing and the livability of tall buildings -- 11. Children in high-rise buildings -- 12. Predictors of residents' satisfaction in high-rise and low-rise housing -- 13. A survey of residential responses to high-rise living -- 14. Elderly people in tall buildings: a nation-wide study -- 15. Perceptions of building height: an approach to research and some preliminary findings -- 16. The impact of high-rise housing on older residents -- 17. The influence of familiarity and age factors on responses to residential structures -- 18. Colony square: an after-occupancy user-needs evaluation -- 19. Residential choice and housing satisfaction in a singles high-rise complex -- 20. Design guidelines for high-rise family housing -- Part IV. The responses to emergency: -- 21. Movement of people in building evacuations -- 22. Emergency communications in high-rise buildings -- 23. Emergencies in tall buildings: the designers respond to the human response -- 24. High-rise fire safety/human response -- 25. Simulation of elevator performance in high-rise buildings under conditions of emergency -- 26. Sociological aspects of natural disasters -- 27. Panic behavior: some empirical observations -- Index.
650			_aTALL BUILDINGS -- PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS -- CONGRESSES
700			_aConway, Donald. _eeditor
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