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Environmental studies are nowadays coming more and more to the fore and emerging as a highly complex interdisciplinary science. In this paper, however, I shall confine myself to that part of the environment which is created by human activities, dealing particularly with the urban environment. The disciplines which are concerned with this field include architecture, town planning, the sociology of housing and of cities, communal hygiene, various aspects of engineering, and some more modern fields such as ekistics or the science of human settlements (Doxiadis, 1970).
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Paper, K. (1972). Urban Space and Amenities. In: Polunin, N. (eds) The Environmental Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01458-3_15
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