Consideration of scope, legal basis, implementation, and problems of planning for streets, utilities, education, recreation, transportation, zoning, and related community services. Presents the current knowledge and research in environmental psychology and studies its relevance to psychological planning for people's special needs. Investigates the psychological effects on persons and groups of selected conditions in various kinds of environments. Designed to give students knowledge of resource use in the United States. Government policies and private enterprise practices of exploitation and conservation from settlement to the present are treated in historical perspective.
Emphasis is on the way resource use has shaped society.
Current political, economic, and social problems in the United States. Consideration of relationships between government and elements of our free enterprise system, including agriculture, small and large firms, labor, public utilities, and finance. Organization, personnel, and functions of the various agencies of administration - national, state, and local. A functional study of legislative bodies and lawmaking, covering organization of legislative bodies, operation of the committee system, relations with interest groups, executive branches, bill drafting, legislative aids, controls over legislation, and movement for reform. Analysis of relations among national, state, and local governments.