THE EFFECT OF WAR DESTRUCTION UPON THE ECOLOGY OF CITIES.

The article concentrates on the effect of war destruction upon the ecology of cities. The author says that to his knowledge little effort has been made to utilize these unique opportunities. The development of an area's ecological structure divorced from its material structure is a phenomenon deserving much attention and thorough study by urban ecologists. In this paper he concentrates on the demographic aspects of war destruction in cities, and primarily on density changes. He says that he is of course, aware that density describes only one aspect of a city's ecology. About other aspects, which are more elusive to a single-handed investigation, he could obtain only some tentative and partial findings. He asserts that density changes are caused by the war. Density is perhaps the most basic feature of a population's spatial distribution as he feels. One aspect of the bombardments of World War II is of greatest importance for density changes, this is the fact that the number of bombed-out people exceeds the number of deaths from air-raids by far.