Urban performance and the control of urban size in China
China ; Citysize ; Economic efficiency ; Town ; Urban policy ; Urban population ; Urbanization
The current policy of controlling citysize 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.
International perspectives on the definition of intermediate sizecities : South African applications
Citysize ; Concept ; Medium-sized town ; Regional planning ; South Africa ; Town
Conflicting ideas on the development of intermediate cities in South Africa have been propagated. In the light of international experience, procedures are devised to identify such cities in an objective manner. - (AJC)
Zakelijke diensten en middelgrote steden. Business service firms and medium-sizedcities
-sizedcities in south and east Netherlands. - (AGD)
The importance of the business service sector for the urban economy has been made operational by ascertaining the size of the local inputs, the volume of regional exports, and the degree of external control for establishments in thirteen medium
The rank-size rule of a set of cities with no or weak interaction : a case study in Japan
S. M. Guseyn-Zade (1977) presents a new model for the relation of rank and size of cities with noninteractions between the cities within a region. It is different from the Zipf formula. The purpose of this paper is to examine to what extent
this model fits the size distribution of cities in seven selected urban areas : Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Hakodate, Hachinohe and Morioka areas, excluding the top rank city in each area. The result shows S. M. Guseyn-Zade's model is appropriate for Tokyo
Changes are analysed according to size of population, by major functions, and by geographical location. Large and medium-sizedcities grew more rapidly than small ones, accounting for 85 per cent of the urban population in 1982. By function
, provincial capitals and mining-manufacturing cities grew more rapidly and are expected to develop further. Cities of coastal regions develop most quickly but in the hinterland regions landward from the coast, citysize is more evenly developed because
of newly erected cities. In the remote border region of the interior new cities have draw large populations. (TNC).
There is no clear relationship between urbanisation and crime in New Zealand. However this situation may be temporary, given the rapid escalation in the incidence of crime in the rapidly changing inner and outer suburbs of the largest cities
(Auckland City, Papakura, Otahihi appeared among the highest crime areas).
An explanatory model of city-size distribution: evidence from cross-country data
Agglomeration ; Citysize ; Living standard ; Measurement ; Model ; Population concentration ; Rank-size distribution ; Regression analysis ; Town ; Urban hierarchy
Causal mechanisms of motorization in the medium-sized local cities of Japan : a cross-section analysis in 1990
Japan ; Medium-sized town ; Multivariate analysis ; Transport system ; Urban traffic ; Urban transport
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-sizedcities located