City;Town ; Iran ; Urban area ; Urban history ; Urban morphology ; Urban structure
Influences of the physical environment, trade, historical events, religion and sociopolitical structures on the spatial patterns and morphology of the cities of Iran. Examples drawn especially from Sabzivar, Mashhad, Isfahan and Shiraz. - (DWG)
Ethnic group ; Lagos ; Large city ; Nigeria ; Poverty ; Urban development ; Urban growth ; Urban society
Lagos, primate city of Nigeria, faces overwhelming problems in meeting basic services, finding land for expansion and dealing with social issues of poverty and crime. The A. analyzes these problems especially in terms of the socio-economic
and ethnic groups that constitute this city of more than six million inhabitants. - (DWG)
Population density pattern and change in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The city's rapid horizontal expansion and dispersal of population is the result of factors such as increases in city population, widing of streets, rise in income and residential mobility rates, and huge governmental city development projects
. This paper recommends that city officials make efforts and programs to stop or slow this uneconomical growth.
This paper tests for the existence of diseconomies of size for Canadian cities using Gibrat's Law. Testing for that Law is equivalent to testing for unit roots commonly found in the time series literature. The tests indicate that Gibrat's Law cannot
be rejected for the seven largest Canadian cities.
Classification of Japanese cities based on manufacturing employment
The purposes of this paper are to clarify the spatial patterns of industrial cities using the index of manufacturing specialization in 1972 and 1986 and to examine the changing spatial pattern of those cities between 1972 and 1986. He indicates
that the cities in Tokyo and Nagoya metropolitan regions have much specialized in manufacturing activity in 1986, while Keihanshin metropolitan region and Setouchi region have declined. - (KA)
The changing central business district of Hachioji and Machida, satellite cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area
Business district ; Honshu ; Inner city ; Japan ; Land use ; Suburbs ; Tokyo ; Urban function ; Urban growth
Hachioji and Machida are located in the western suburbs of Tokyo. Their histories are different. Hachioji is a very old town, but Machida does not have a long history. The A. analyzed the process of change in the CBD structure of these two cities
, as well as the change in functional accumulation, location of multi-stories buildings, and change in floor use for each function of 1981 and 1987. He indicates that the differences in the function of CBDs in the two cities can be explained by differences
An international city going « global » : spatial change in the City of London
Bank ; Business district ; England ; Finance ; Financial flow ; Inner city ; London ; Social change ; Social space ; United Kingdom ; Urban area
Les transformations sociales et spatiales de la City entre les décennies 60 et 90 sont étroitement liées aux changements dans les flux financiers internationaux. Dans un premier temps, elle a réussi à réguler les flux financiers entrants puis, pour
A flood chronology for Cork City and its climatological background
The article examines the role of climatic, riverine and tidal components of the natural event system to understand the variability of flood frequencies in the City of Cork over these 148 years.
Antwerp : a modern city with a significant historic heritage in Old trends and new impulses in Europe's urban affairs.
The A. discusses recent planning and urban renewal policies in Antwerp within the contexts of the city's extensive cultural heritage and its historic evolution. Special attention is given to the architectural and urban design achievements
Spatial changes in the hydrology of portions of the Twin Cities, Minnesota : a simulation study
Catchment area;Watershed ; City;Town ; Geographical information system ; Human impact ; Hydrology ; Minnesota ; United States ; Urbanization ; Water cycle;Water circulation ; Water resources
) to portions of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. SIRWAT allows for study of hydrologic changes in intermediate-scale (100 to 10,000 km2) areas undergoing urban expansion.
Deindustrialisation and the reality of the post-industrial city
City;Town ; Desindustrialization ; Employment ; Glasgow ; Industrial location ; Labour market ; Scotland ; Social change ; United Kingdom ; Urban economy ; Urban policy
At the level of the individual city the situation is often considerably more complex than at the general or aggregate level, and the positive and negative attributes are less easy to compare. The example of Glasgow and the surrounding conurbation
Apartheid ; City;Town ; Ethnic group ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Urban area
Patterns of segregation in South African cities before the enactment of the Group Areas Act are examined. High levels of segregation were evident in 1951. - (AJC)