SANDSTONE AS A BUILDING MATERIAL IN LIBYA

(pp. 1 - 10)

Dr. Robert Holz

University of Texas

Austin, Texas

Abstract

The Kingdom of Libya in Africa is faced today with two factors of population dynamics that are creating severe economic and social pressures within the country. These are: 1) the rapid increase in total population and, 2) the internal migration of people from farms and oases to the larger cities along the Mediterranean littoral, or alternatively to the oil fields. In the ten years since the 1954 census the total population increased by 475,480 persons or 43.7 per cenft.2 The percentages of population increase for the Mugataas (Provinces) of Tripoli and Benghazi were 58.2 and 65.9 per cent respectively undefined considerably above the national average and reflecting the internal migration to these centers of higher economic opportunity.

ORIGIN, DIFFUSION, AND DISTRIBUTION OF MIDIEVAL ROUND CHURCHES IN SCANDINAVIA

(pp. 11 - 16)

Harold B. H. Jensen

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Abstract

There is a standing argument among Scandinavian scholars regarding the origin and diffusion of the medieval round churches in Northern Europe. The majority opinion is that the round churches are offshoots of the Carolingian central churches of France and Germany and that they diffused from this area throughout Scandinavia. The minority opinion holds that the round churches have no relation whatsoever with Central European architecture but are exclusively a Scandinavian creation.

SELECTED LAND USE - DISTANCE CORRELATES IN THE CITY OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA

(pp. 17 - 19)

Dr. Donald P. Brandt

Edinboro State College

Edinboro, Pennsylvania

Abstract

Objectives. As part of a land use exercise in an urban geography course, students collected data in order to determine if land usage varied with distance from the city center. The primary question asked was: are selected land uses associated with distance? To answer this question the City of Erie, Pennsylvania was used as a study area. Selected land use categories were examined for two time periods. The average length of the city block was the distance interval employed. Simple correlations were used to measure association. Study area. The City of Erie (population estimated at 142,300, in 1970) was used for the land use study. Historically, Erie dates to the late 18th and the early 19th centuries undefined dramatically to the infamous Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry, economically to the salt routes across Western Pennsylvania. Although the city is relatively old, by American standards, its morphological classification reveals strong mutualities with Adam's "Middle Age" cities.1 Urban growth in Erie has, and continues to be, along the lake front. Generally, the City's geometric configuration is rectilinear, its long axis paralleling the lake.