Néhany magjegyzés a kosép-Békési varosok hataranak településfoldrajzi vizsgalatahoz. (Some remarks on the settlement-geographical investigation of the outskirts of the middle-Békés towns)
The changing competitive relationship between small town centres and out-of-town retailing : town revival in South Wales
The article seeks to examine whether the reinvestment process has improved the commercial situation of a small town in the context of strong local competition and continued retail decentralisation. It is possible to reverse the commercial fortunes
of a middle-order traditional centre, even in the context of considerable competition from the newer retail forms.
Middle-income housing programmes in American cities
Housing ; Housing improvement ; Housing market ; Housing policy ; Middle class ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban construction
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
Cultural studies ; Germany ; Middle class ; Quality of life ; Town ; Urbanism ; Way of life
Key words for a reformulation of the concept of urbanity which carries on the emancipatory tradition of middle-class town culture under the social conditions experienced today are : overcoming social inequality, political participation, the multi
-cultural town, reconciliation with nature, the presence of the past, a new unity of everyday life and preservation of contrasts. - (L'A.).
Upper-middle-class influence on developmental policy outcomes : the case of transit infrastructure
Infrastructure ; Investment ; Organization ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban administration ; Urban development
The paper probes the thesis that variance in economic development outcomes is determined in part by agencies perceiving anonymous publics where no direct interaction is involved. It examines this with reference to an upper-middle-class lifestyle
Retail competitiveness in a middle sized border town (Komárno, Slovakia)
The study deals with the rapid transformation of the Slovak retail network as well as it analyzes the changes in shopping habits in Komárno, a medium sized border town in Slovakia. The first part of the paper, which is based on a desk research
initiated fundamental changes in the retail trade of this gateway town in southern Slovakia. In the second part of the paper, the authors introduce the results of the field research carried out on two sets of samples with 300 respondents each
Problems of spatial structure of Towns, pointing out some negative tendancies of its development in Czechoslovakia. On example of a model town of a middle size (Levice), the A. suggests possibilities of variant solution. - (L'A.).
The book deals with local history and geography in the town of Freiberg and its surroundings. Freiberg is famous because of its middle aged mining industry. Numerous testimonies of this mining industry as well as sign of modern development
Old European homelands in the American Middle West
from Canton Glarus ; and Cambridge, Minnesota, settled in the 1860s by Swedes from Dalecarlia. Both towns have public expressions of ethnic culture, but that in New Glarus is much more overt, better organized and economically lucrative. - ( DWG)
Hungary ; Small town ; Spatial structure ; Town ; Transdanubia ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban morphology
The author investigates the spatial structure and urban development of Pápa a middle sized Hungarian town in north western Transdanubia. Because of its civic cultural and clerical traditions Pápa used to belong to those Hungarian towns which were
strongly discriminated by the urban development policy of the communist rule. Paradoxically the four decades of Sleeping Beauty period did good to the town after all, since the urban structure of Pápa was not destroyed by the megalomaniac building projects
from town and lake in Middle Ages ; the dynamic and corrections of bodies of water in the Swiss lake landscapes since 18th century ; and water as magnet for the touristical development in 19th century. - (IfL)
buildings in lakes and bogs around the Alps ; natural scientific archaeological researches on lake Balaton in Hungary ; the role of fishes for economy, feeding and culture in the last 2000 years ; the cloister in lakes – advisements of a Middle Ages location
type with case studies of island Wörth in Chiemsee, Reichenau (Konstanz), church island in Ireland and St. Peter in Lake Biel ; lakes as traffic spaces in period between 18th and 20th century ; Biel – a town lake, some advisements to the relationship