Nairobi -Struktur und Funktion einer postkolonialen PrimateCity
Nairobi -structure et fonction d'une primatecity post-coloniale
Capital city ; City;Town ; Colonization ; Independence ; Kenya ; Large city;Metropolis ; Social segregation ; Urban growth ; Urban population ; Urban society ; Urban structure
PrimateCity Nairobi. A Metropolis between Growth and Restructuring
Economy ; Globalization ; Informal sector ; International organization ; Kenya ; Large city ; Nairobi ; Population growth ; Town ; Urban area ; Urban growth
Nairobi illustrates the prime example of an African primatecity. The Kenyan capital is characterised by an economic supremacy, a tremendous population growth accompanied by intense socio-economic disparities, by its huge spatial extension resulting
Ethnic group ; Lagos ; Large city ; Nigeria ; Poverty ; Urban development ; Urban growth ; Urban society
Lagos, primatecity 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)
Built up area ; Employment ; Forecast ; Housing ; Istanbul ; Large city ; Mediterranean States ; Migration ; PrimateCity ; Turkey ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban immigration ; Urban planning ; Urban population ; Urban segregation
Re-examination of the concept of primatecities and the different methods of calculating primacy. The high degree of primacy of 12 Latin American countries is confirmed here. However, the widely held belief that primacy is a stage of the urban-size
Moscow on the rise : from primatecity to megaregion
Capital city ; Centrality ; Diversification ; Domination ; European part of Russia ; Moscow ; Polycentrism ; Urban economy ; Urban function ; Urban region
[b1] Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake city, Etats-Unis
The urban settlement system in Germany is polycentric : it doesn't exist one sole primatecity. As a result of federal policy and seen as advantageous in European-wide competition the spatial planning pursues a concept of decentralised concentration
. The settlement development between West and East shows significant differences. In West Germeny the process of urbanisation is concentrated on rural areas and hinterland regions instead of central cities. In the new Länder all categories of settlement-structural
areas have been affected by population decline. Even so the process of suburbanisation, till 1990 without any influence in the GDR, is highly increased. Especially a radical change of locational patterns of retail from central city to the outskirts
, where new large-scale facilities are built up, fraught with loss of importance in cities are characteristic for the urban settlement system in the new Länder. - (HPB)
Sequential city growth : Theory and evidence from the US
-growing ones in sequence. This paper also reveals 3 related features of urban system : 1), The city size distribution evolves from low-level balanced to primate and finally high-level balanced pattern in an inverted U-shaped path; 2), There exist
This paper examines how cities develop and grow in the upper tail of size distribution in a large-scale economy based on a theoretical model under new economic geography framework and the empirical evidence from the US. The results show that cities
grow in a sequential pattern. Cities with the best economic conditions are the first to grow fastest until they reach a critical size, then their growth rates slow down and the smaller cities farther down in the urban hierarchy become the fastest
persistent discontinuities, or gaps, between city size classes; 3), City size in the upper tail exhibits conditional convergence characteristics.
Economic growth ; Growth pole ; Industrial concentration ; Inner city ; Large city ; Madrid ; Periurban development ; Spain ; Tertiary sector ; Urban development ; Urban function ; Urban region
En étant la plus grande région urbaine en Espagne, Madrid exerce les fonctions d'une ville primat. En dehors de son développement fulgurant dans le secteur tertiaire et dans celui des transports, la capitale occupe également la deuwième place sur le
Decision making process ; Domination ; Economic growth ; Economic power ; Economic structure ; France ; Growth pole ; Ile-de-France ; Large city ; Paris ; Suburbanization ; Urban development
contraire, qu'accélérer la transformation structurelle, en confirmant la ville primat, dans le contexte de la mondialisation, comme centre de décisions économiques. L'article retrace l'évolution de la périphérie parisienne et analyse les facteurs de la
ST On the Fukaku of the city : an attempt to evaluate cities by the place image
In this paper the term image of the city is used as a kind of the place image , which is an original and broad geographical image concept. This paper takes up the fukaku of the city as an example of the city by the place image. The objectives
are, firstly, to evaluate cities practically| secondly, to explain the concept of the fukaku of the city which the respondents have obtained from images of the city. - (KA)
Characteristics and trends of spatial forms of city centers in Japan
Employment ; Inner city ; Japan ; Urban morphology
This paper aims to analyze the spatial form in the city centers in Japan. It proposes the agglomeration district of city center-type (AD) as an absolute reference for the city center based on employee density. - (KA)