Choice of restaurants by the suburban inhabitants of Osaka City: the case of Fujiidera City
This article is a case study to examine how suburban inhabitants choose restaurants in the CBD and the suburbs. The A. selects Fujiidera City in Osaka metropolitan area.
The agglomeration of branch offices and their recent changes in major cities
Enterprise ; Head office ; Japan ; Large city ; Offices ; Regional metropolis
This paper is to evaluate the agglomeration of branch offices in the major cities in Japan. The A. discusses this point under the one-point' concentration of capital and information in Tokyo headquarters during the 1980s.
Conceptualising and mapping the structure of the world system's city system
Cities, enterprises and society at the eve of the 21st century
The AA. review some of the scholarship that emphasises large cities' roles as important modes of production, consumption, exchange and control at the global level. Linkages among these cities are likely to reveal the spatial organisation
of the world-system. The AA. present a map of the current world city system based on their network analysis of recent air travel among many of the world's great cities.
Knowledge-based development: policy and planning implications for cities
Cities, enterprises and society at the eve of the 21st century
The approach draws from the experience of US cities and is being elaborated while undertaking strategic diagnostics of knowledge-based development in several cities. The A. presents key findings from studies of the transformation from production
to knowledge in several types and sizes of cities. Implications for cities and regions are summarised and the need for a policy framework is explored.
China ; City size ; Economic efficiency ; Town ; Urban policy ; Urban population ; Urbanization
The current policy of controlling city size to deter the development of large cities, seems to be either irrelevant or misleading. Instead, against a current background of rapid urbanisation, China should take full advantage of its large cities
and pursue a large-city-led policy for its development.
Network cities: creative urban agglomerations for the 21st century
Cities, enterprises and society at the eve of the 21st century
The global economy is nurturing an innovative class of polycentric urban configurations. A network city evolves when two or more previously independent cities, potentially complementary in function, strive to cooperate and achieve significant scope
economies. These cities place a higher priority on knowledge-based activities and try to benefit from the synergies of interactive growth. Two case studies are discussed: Randstad Holland and Kansai, Japan.
Within the last two decades, an ostensibly new urban phenomenon -the edge city- has taken root in the U.S. metropolis. The focus here is on the concept's discursive qualities. Edge city's symbolic thrust is to resolve the ambivalence Americans have
toward their cities. Ultimately it fails, floundering on flawed representational tactics and a misreading of the actual dynamics of U.S. urbanization.
History of the former capital of Burma from the earliest times until 1942. The A. explains the arrivals of the white foreigners in Lower Burma (1583-1800), the construction of the new city by the British (1852-1871), and the life of the colonial
Geographical analysis of the industrial economic return of Chinese cities
China ; City size ; Factor of production ; Labour productivity ; Regression analysis ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban industry
A city's industrial economic return is correlated with its size. Many other factors have important impacts on returns from urban economic activity. The results of regression analysis indicate that industrial investment and industrial mix are the two
In a policy survey of 39 business service firms for the Scottish City of Edinburgh it is found, despite the prominence of its financial institutions and a few outstanding examples of international sales, that 80% of activity is undertaken
for the Scottish market, 24% for private households and only about 10% for the manufacturing sector. It should be policy to maximise export activity of the sector, with the help of continued development of education and training in the City of Edinburgh.
Advertising and city formation with local public goods
The A. intends to integrate imperfect information into the Tiebout-type model so as to examine the role of information in city formation with local public goods. He focuses on a specific land market in which land developers try to form cities
Building upon the foundations of gentrification: inner-city housing development in Australia in the 1990s
Australia ; Employment structure ; Family structure ; Gentrification ; Housing ; Housing market ; Inner city ; Investment ; Real estate property ; Tertiary sector ; Theory ; Urban society
Evidence is presented of recovery in the inner-suburban terrace housing submarket, and what began as counter-cyclical investment in Australia. This latest phase of residential revitalization in the inner city heralds a trend to higher-value, high
-rise living at the center of Australian cities. Concerted government action is necessary to prime the core-area market for residential project development in the 1991-1993 years. Consideration is given to the implications for gentrification research
The relationship between income inequality and city size: a general equilibrium model of an open system of cities approach
City size ; Equilibrium model ; Household behaviour ; Labour market ; Living standard ; Model ; Preference ; Quality of life ; Urban system ; Wage inequality
Restructuring and decentralization in a world city
Aire métropolitaine ; Différenciation spatiale ; Décentralisation ; Désindustrialisation ; Economie urbaine ; Espace urbain ; Etats-Unis ; Exurbanisation ; Fonction urbaine ; Métropole ; New York City ; Restructuration économique ; Société urbaine
Decentralization ; Deindustrialization ; Economic restructuring ; Exurban settlement ; Large city ; Metropolitan area ; New York City ; Segregation ; Spatial differentiation ; Specialization ; Tertiarization ; United States of America ; Urban area
This paper examines the geography of insrtitutional stock ownership for 603 major publicly traded companies. Linkages between cities are created using the stock-ownership levels between headquarter cities of investors and headquarters cities