Includes bibliographies.

Introduction / Paul Oliver -- Australian Aborigines and the definition of place / Amos Rapoport -- Three cities of Nepal / Jan Pieper -- Architecture and symbolism in Tibetan monasteries / Romi Khosla -- House decorations among South Asian people / Tore Hakansson -- Another thick wall pattern : Cappadocia / Suha Ozkan and Selahattin Onur -- The boat as an architectural symbol / Ronald Lewcock and Gerard Brans -- Art and magic in South Bantu vernacular architecture / James Walton -- Decorated houses of Pyrghi, Chios / Eugene Politis -- Reflex modernization in tribal societies / Fritz Morgenthaler -- Patterns of change in an African environment / Julian Beinart -- Mobile shelter in Pakistan / Hasan Uddin Khan -- The concert of settlement in the West African savannah / David Dalby -- Semiological urbanism : an analysis of the traditional Western Sudanese settlement / Alexander-Phaedow Lagopoulos -- Nike : the siting of a Japanese rural house / Keith Critchlow.