Special architectural additions to campuses can enable handicapped persons to attend college as normal individuals. (HS)

The author takes a critical look at the vogue of futurism, its goals, and its requirements. (AN)

The author offers a set of principles in the form of a code in an attempt to strengthen the relationship between the physical environment and the learning process. (HS)

Presents an 11-point agenda for a new assertion of peoples' environmental rights. (MF)

Introductory college physical geography courses can be made more relevant by starting with environmental problems of social concern and going on pertinent subject matter to explain the problems. The implications of a problems approach to teaching-learning processes are also discussed. (NH)

The difference between day and night seems to have been almost completely overlooked in environmental studies. Suggests incorporating day/night phenomena/activities (from biological, psychological, and social points of view) in studies on environmental perception and on human behavior and environmental responses. (Author/JN)

Highlights a two-day international public hearing on the environment recently held in London (England). The hearing brought together approximately 100 environmental politicians, scientists, and other experts from all over the world. These experts are now optimistic that there will be no major environmental catastrophe within the next 20 years.…

Referring to cognitive competence as a collective term of cognitive behavior as considered by Piaget and Hunt, a theoretical frame of reference based on Brunswik's unit and Wohlwill's conceptions of the environment as a source of stimulation versus the environment as a context for behavior is discussed. (Author)

Details the results of a large-scale field study aimed at testing two theories on human crowding. Found that psychological factors are increasingly important for the prediction of crowding as one moved from the immediate residence to the less immediate city level. Implications, limitations and further results are discussed. (Author/MA)

An approach to teaching architecture that accommodates external environmental influences called architectural context is described. Contextual issues come under three headings: formal patterns (space, shape, scale, materials, etc.), activity patterns, and climatic patterns. The use of this approach in studio instruction is examined. (MSE)

First and fifth graders estimated all interlocation distances among six objects in one of two environments: a familiar library or a novel arrangement of objects in a room. Findings suggest (1) an increase in the ability to shift among spatial frames of reference with development and (2) a sequence of mastery of spatial knowledge. (RH)

Health professionals should instruct mountain enthusiasts about the prevention and early treatment of the medical complications of acute high altitude exposure. Several clinical manifestations are described. (CJ)