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  • Producer services trade in city systems: evidence from Chicago
  • The paper demonstrates conceptually that trade flows through a two-tiered organisation of cities. The first involves world-class cities,and the second a hierarchical organisation of cities within the US urban system. These patterns of interaction
  • 1994
  • From violence to reconstruction: the making, disintegration and remaking of an apartheid city
  • The A. describes how the city of Durban came to be structured racially from the 1940s to the 1980s. The second section shows how the nature and spread of the violence in the 1980s related to the racial structuring of the city, rapid urbanization
  • , social differentiation and the emergence of localized power centers in the black residential areas. Section 3 poses the alternatives facing the city: continuing down the path of exclusion or peaceful negotiations over a more inclusive city form.
  • 1994
  • Multipolarity and the layering of functions in world cities: New York City's struggle to stay on top
  • Centralité ; Concurrence ; Etats-Unis ; Fonction urbaine ; Hiérarchie urbaine ; New York City ; Pouvoir économique ; Services aux entreprises ; Spécialisation ; Système urbain ; Tertiaire supérieur ; Ville mondiale
  • Centrality ; Competition ; Economic power ; New York City ; Producer services ; Quaternary sector ; Specialization ; United States ; Urban function ; Urban hierarchy ; Urban system
  • 1994
  • Activities of private developers and office location in the central region of Hiroshima city
  • The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation between the development of office space, the location of office renting floor space and the influences of the activities of private developers on business office districts in Hiroshima City
  • 1994
  • Cities and buildings: skycrapers, skid rows, and suburbs
  • Engaging treatment of the architectural, functional and historical character of commercial, institutional, and residential buildings that form cities. Written from the geographic perspectives of place and space, the focus is on the USA, with other
  • 1994
  • Spatial and temporal variations of sound in an andean city: Cajamarca, Peru
  • This study provides a preliminary examination of the temporal and geographic variations of sound in Cajamarca, a provincial city in the Andes of northern Peru. Sound levels were sampled in four neighborhoods of the city each representing different
  • 1994
  • Regional structure of economic linkages between Japanese cities based on the analysis of bank branch networks
  • cities of the same order, as shown in Pred's model. The aim of this paper is to clarify economic linkages between Japanese cities by analyzing bank branch networks of each of 145 commercial banks in Japan and the location of new branches established
  • 1994
  • Recent changes of the urban residents and residential structure in Sendai City
  • Factorial ecology ; Honshu ; Inner city ; Japan ; Residential location ; Urban ecology ; Urban structure
  • Sendai City has continously developed as the most important administrative and economical center in the Tohoku region since the Meiji Restoration. Using the population census of 1970 and 1985, thirty four attributes are selected. Factorial
  • 1994
  • Physical change and administrative response within the Dublin city-region during the twentieth-century
  • 1994
  • When the great planes came and made ashes of our city...: towards an oral geography of the disasters of war
  • victims speak for themselves. These issues are explores through the personal testimony of survivors of violents events, especially women, in industrial cities during the Second World War.
  • 1994
  • Middle-income housing programmes in American cities
  • Seven North American cities (Baltimore, Cleveland, Montreal, New York, St Louis, St Paul and Wilmington) are studied. Middle-income housing programmes have developed a strong constituency among community leaders and minority politicians who see
  • 1994
  • Symbolizing place: journalistic narratives of the city
  • inflections of the narrative city life. Strategies in news narrative typically mediate between the newspaper's economic self-interest in regional development and the journalistic ideal of public service.
  • 1994
  • At the turn of the nineteenth century Chicago experienced a literary explosion. Writers of urban fiction were trying to make sense of the modern city. Common to both literary and theoretical discourses was the recourse to organic metaphors
  • to describe the city. The A. also examines the points of view adopted by the urban writers and explores the spatial constructions of the city.
  • 1994
  • Segregation levels in the late-apartheid city 1985-1991
  • In the course of the 1980s a number of changes took place in the organisation of South African cities, leading to the concept of modernizing apartheid. An examination of the 1991 census suggests not only that segregation levels are remarkably high
  • 1994
  • Causal mechanisms of motorization in the medium-sized local cities of Japan : a cross-section analysis in 1990
  • This paper considers the present state of proliferation by applying some statistical methods to a set of cross-sectional data, an array of transportation and socio-economic variables in 1990 for each of eighty-four medium-sized cities located
  • 1994
  • The city image and its regional background in the Hokuriku district, Central Japan
  • The purpose of this study is to clarify the image and its regional background of cities in the Hokuriku District, Central Japan. The methodological framework consists of three preparatory questionnaire surveys, semantic differential method combined
  • 1994
  • Agglomerations of private research institutions in Tsukuba science city
  • This science city forms one of the largest agglomerations of private research institutions in Japan. They emphasize basic research in high technology industries. The analysis of their historical development, labor markets, commodity linkages
  • 1994
  • Il processo di rinnovamento urbano negli Stati Uniti: il caso di New York City
  • Déréglementation ; Embourgeoisement ; Etats-Unis ; Investissement ; Logement ; New York City ; Politique du logement ; Quartier ; Rénovation urbaine ; Spéculation immobilière ; Utilisation du sol
  • Deregulation ; Gentrification ; Housing ; Housing policy ; Investment ; Land use ; New York City ; Real estate speculation ; United States of America ; Urban district ; Urban renewal
  • 1994
  • Taking up space: redefining political legitimacy in New York City
  • Appropriation de l'espace ; Citoyenneté ; Communauté ; Coopérative ; Espace urbain ; Etats-Unis ; Groupe social ; New York City ; Pauvreté ; Quartier ; Réseau de sociabilité ; Société urbaine
  • Appropriation of land ; Citizenship ; Community ; Cooperative ; New York City ; Poverty ; Social group ; Social network ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban district ; Urban society
  • 1994
  • Cities and elderly people: recent population and distributional trends
  • 1994