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Centre for Human Settlements fonds
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- Sound recording
- Moving images
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- Source of title proper: Title based on the provenance of the fonds
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1974-1980, predominant May-June 1976 (Creation)
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Physical description
272 videocassettes (Umatic)
38 cassette tapes
9 16mm films
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Administrative history
The Centre for Human Settlements was established at the University of British Columbia during the United Nations Conference of Human Settlements in Vancouver (May 1976). Administered by a director responsible to an inter-disciplinary Board of Management chaired by the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Centre was created to provide a research focus for issues relating to human settlement. One of the centre's main objectives was the provision of access to the audio-visual reference library of video tapes of the 240 presentations contributed by 140 nations participating in the 1976 conference.
Custodial history
The video and audio recordings were transferred to the University Archives by the UBC Centre for Human Settlements in 1984. The 16mm films were given to the Archives by Colin Preston in 2018.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of a series of video tapes created during the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in 1976. In addition, the fonds includes audio recordings of the meetings of the Co-ordinating Committee for Habitat '76 as well as recordings from a lecture series established following the conference.
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Availability of other formats
Audiovisual materials have been digitized and are located on external drives in the vault. Please ask archives staff for details. Some of the 1976 UN-Habitat Conference videos are available on YouTube.
Restrictions on access
These are institutional records and subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Researcher access to these records is subject to review. To organize access please contact us at UBC Archives.
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Associated materials
School of Community and Regional Planning: Habitat Conferences Digital Archive