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The Economics Of Solar Water Heaters : A Guide For Evaluating The Cost-Effectiveness Of Active Solar Water Heating Systems In Maine, Maine Office Of Energy Resources Jul 1979

The Economics Of Solar Water Heaters : A Guide For Evaluating The Cost-Effectiveness Of Active Solar Water Heating Systems In Maine, Maine Office Of Energy Resources

Maine Collection

The Economics of Solar Water Heaters : A Guide for Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Active Solar Water Heating Systems in Maine

State of Maine, Executive Department, Office of Energy Resources,

Augusta, Maine (July, 1979).

Contents: Section I: Introduction / Section II: Economic Method: The Life Cycle Cost Analysis / Section III: Factors Affecting the Decision to Buy / Section IV: Explanation of the Tables / Table I - Table IIIA



Insites, 1979, Utah State University Jan 1979

Insites, 1979, Utah State University

inSites

Magazine of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning


Saed News V1, N1, Fall 1979, School Of Architecture And Environmental Design Jan 1979

Saed News V1, N1, Fall 1979, School Of Architecture And Environmental Design

School of Architecture and Environmental Design Publications

The School of Architecture and Environmental Design publication, Fall 1979.


Human Aspects Of Planning Shopping Centers, Nicholas Patricios Dec 1978

Human Aspects Of Planning Shopping Centers, Nicholas Patricios

Nicholas Patricios

After a brief outline of the macro- and micro-model approaches to shopping, a perception and spatial behavior model is selected as a framework for the research study. The study aims to identify the variables constituting the mental image of a consumer's shopping environment and which of these variables are considered important in spatial choice. Statistically significant differences in the preferences of shoppers are found based on the type of township the shopper lives in, the purpose of the shopping trip, and the shopper's income group. Patterns of variation on consumer attitudes as to the perceived importance of various attributes are …


An Agentive Perspective Of Urban Planning, Nicholas Patricios Dec 1978

An Agentive Perspective Of Urban Planning, Nicholas Patricios

Nicholas Patricios

An agentive model of person-environment relations is proposed based on environmental behavior research. The agentive process consists of three stages: awareness of information in the phenomenal environment; perception and cognition - construal - of the environmental information; and action in the behavioral environment. The agentive model of urban planning brings together theory and practice and would assist efforts to resolve conflicts and achieve consensus in urban planning transactions.