Horse keeping in urban and peri-urban areas: new conditions for physical planning in Sweden
practice and policy in a peri-urban context.
between municipalities, which may create a legal insecurity for the involved stakeholders. The study illustrates a planning problem where the planning tools for managing this issue have been built on the urban-rural dichotomy, providing unclear planning
Factors of spatial distribution of recreation areas in peri-urban Beijing
Beijing ; China ; Environmental management ; Geographical information system ; Land use ; Periurban development ; Recreation area ; Spatial distribution ; Statistical analysis ; Urbanization
Based on the case study of peripheral urban areas in Beijing, this paper aims to identify the factors which will influence the spatial distribution of peri-urban recreation areas, by analyzing the collected data from questionnaires, online survey
, documentation and field investigations (2007). A sampling database for peri-urban recreation areas in Beijing is established, and GIS spatial analyses as well as statistic analyses are applied. The result indicates that spatial distribution of recreation areas
Les dynamiques urbaines de Shanghai. Trois artères péri-centrales en mutation : La rue en Asie
China ; Gentrification ; Identity ; Public space ; Shanghai ; Social change ; Socio-economic system ; Street ; Urban area ; Urban dynamics
Etude des dynamiques urbaines, économiques et sociales à Shanghai, à partir du cas de l’évolution socio-morphologique de trois artères péri-urbaines. Les artères péri-centrales participent pleinement à l’organisation de l’espace. Appréhender les
Les AA. analysent les solutions mises en place pour l'approvisionnement en eau dans des villages péri-urbains à Gresik en Indonésie. En l'absence de systèmes municipaux adéquats, des organisations au niveau des quartiers déploient des efforts pour
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[b1] Globalization Research Center, Urban and Regional Planning, Political Science, Univ. of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Etats-Unis
in the years 2005 and 2007, considering different state borders, border crossing points and directions of trade. These considerations have been broadened by the analysis of the unregistered turnover of the peri-border trade, this analysis being based
The comprehensive evaluation of China's urbanization and effects on resources and environment
China ; Entropy ; Environment ; Impact ; Index ; Methodology ; Resource management ; Sustainable development ; Urban growth ; Urbanization
This paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system for the urbanization level in China in terms of four aspects of urbanization connotation: population, economy, society, and land. A comprehensive measurement is carried out
for the Chinese urbanization between 1981 and 2006 based on the Entropy method. Moreover, the effects of urbanization on resource and environment are examined to promote the healthy development of urbanization.
Developing countries ; Health ; Informal sector ; Informal settlement ; Large town ; Poverty ; Segregation ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban immigration
The seven articles deal with the urban agglomerations in Latin America with case studies from Bogotá and Barranquilla (Colombia), the urban development and segregation in greater Istanbul, the health challenges in megacities with examples from India
and China, the transformation processes in Yangon/Myanmar, the informal urbanisation in major cities of Tanzania, the contested space in low-income settlements of Dhaka (Bangladesh), the migrants workers and mega-urban development in China’s Pearl River
Content and densities of soil organic carbon in urban soil in different function districts of Kaifeng
Carbon ; China ; Climatic change ; Henan ; Land use ; Soil ; Soil properties ; Suburbs ; Town ; Urban area
Urban soil, forming along with the development of city, has unique properties of soil organic carbon. On the basis of field investigation and laboratory analysis, soil organic carbon (SOC) of Kaifeng city was studied, and the results showed
that the characteristics of SOC were different not only among function districts in urban area, but also between urban area and suburbs. The variances of SOC in urban area were more complicated than that in suburbs.
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[b2] Dep. of Urban and Environmental Science, College, Xuchang, Chine
Urban expansion and transportation : the impact of urban form on commuting patterns on the city fringe of Beijing
Accessibility ; Beijing ; China ; Commuting ; Journey to work ; Socio-economic system ; Urban development ; Urban fringe ; Urban structure ; Urban transport
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[b2] Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, Univ., Beijing, Chine
[b3] Dept. of Urban and Environmental Planning, Univ., Groningen, Pays-Bas
Urban renaissance as intensification : building regulation and the rescaling of place governance in Tokyo's high-rise Manshon boom
Japan ; Land ; Power ; Real estate development ; Regulation ; Role of the State ; Urban administration ; Urban construction ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban planning
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[b1] Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Univ., Toronto, Canada
[b2] Dept. of Urban Engineering, Univ., Tokyo, Japon
[b3] Dept. of Urban Engineering, Univ., Tsukuba, Japon
Reorienting urban development ? Structural obstruction to new urban forms
Environmental degradation ; North America ; Structuration theory ; Toronto ; Urban change ; Urban density ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban morphology ; Urban sprawl