Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1974 - 8/31/1974

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)


Proxemic Factors in the Cultural Mediation of the Effects of Urban Population

FAIN: FT-12012-74

Sylvia Vatuk
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, IL 60612-4305)

To investigate the potential applications of the study of proxemics (high-density living) to the problem of cross-cultural variation in social responses to high urban population densities. The study will focus on the areas of architectural design and city planning.