Urban development, its implications for social welfare; proceedings

New York: Published for the International Council on Social Welfare by Columbia University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good/None. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Gray cloth boards with black titling on front and spine; light to moderately soiling and corners bumped. NOT ex-library. Binding is sound. Owner's name inked on FFEP. Interior is unmarked. Lacks dustjacket. 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: Proceedings of the XIIIth International Conference of Social Work, Washington, D.C., U.S., September 4-10, 1966. See photos for Table of Contents. 'The city is a subject of growing importance.... We were not discussing the city simply as a fact, as a natural phenomenon, so to say; we were not restricting ourselves to the sociological, economic, administrative, or other analysis of the process of urbanization in the world. We are interested in the implications of that process for social welfare. And to that extent, we are committed...to the human value of welfare, to a positive state of individual and social well-being and dignity shared equally by all people in all countries on this planet which is our common home.... But in order to live in cities we first must live--and in order to live we must live in peace. It is therefore, finally, our greatest and foremost common responsibility to strengthen the forces of reason and of peace by emphasizing our common human tasks which are important for all of us and which we can accomplish only by acting together.' (-from the Foreword). Bibliographical footnotes. ix, 462 p. 24 cm.