Welfare services for the elderly in a metropolitan municipality : provision and use of nursing homes in Nagoya city
Collectivité locale ; Equipement ; Equipement hospitalier ; Gestion urbaine ; Honshū ; Japon ; Nagoya ; Personnes âgées ; Retraité ; Secteur public ; Service ; Ville
Elderly people ; Facilities ; Honshu ; Hospital facilities ; Japan ; Local government ; Nagoya ; Public sector ; Retired people ; Service ; Town ; Urban administration
The object of this study is nursing home for the elderly, which is the most major service in institutional care in Japan. - (KA)
Do municipal residency laws affect labour market outcomes ?
Fiscalité ; Impact économique ; Législation ; Marché local du travail ; Police ; Politique urbaine ; Résidence ; Service public ; Ville
Economic impact ; Legislation ; Local labour market ; Police ; Public service ; Residence ; Taxation system ; Town ; Urban policy
Studies investigating the economic effects of residency laws on municipal labour markets have not obtained consistent results. The A. re-examines the effects of residency laws using newer data, relatively large samples and cities with a wide range
of populations and data for protective services. Residency laws do not affect compensation and employment for either police or firefighters. Possible explanations for the results are non-compliance with the laws or variations in who is affected by the laws.
The costs of disposal and recycling : an application to Italian municipal solid waste services
Economies of scale ; Italy ; Model ; Municipality ; Recycling ; Urban economy ; Waste
This paper investigates the costs of disposal and recycling through an application to Italian municipal solid waste services. As far as the size of the municipality increases, scope economies rise up to 20%, but they are accompanied by overall
Australie ; Collectivité locale ; Communauté ; Femme ; Melbourne ; Participation ; Relations sociales ; Service ; Service social ; Société urbaine ; Victoria
Australia ; Community ; Local government ; Melbourne ; Participation ; Services ; Social relations ; Social service ; Urban society ; Victoria ; Woman
Focusing on child-care provision, but with some reference also to services for aged dependents, the paper describes the community-service practice of two Melbourne municipalities and the class and gender biases they incorporate.
Rappel de ce que sont les districts municipaux de viabilité (Municipal Utility districts) dans la réglementation aux Etats-Unis. Analyse économique des services de viabilité. Le rôle des M.U.D. dans le développement immobilier des villes de Dallas
The relationship between wider-area municipal spheres and regional urban systems in Japan
(Morikawa, 1990), a municipality qualifies as a central city if the workers of at least 3,000 persons are engaged in sales and service job of the city. The writer examined the spatial relationships between WAMSs (wider-area municipal spheres) and urban
In this paper the writer tries to analyze urban tributary areas and daily city regions of central cities according to the analysis of connectivity between central cities and their surrounding municipalities by using commuting data among
municipalities (1985 Census). Instead of the concept of a city region the writer uses the concepts of a daily city region corresponding to the commuting areas of a central city and an urban tributary area consisting of a wider area. As shown in another paper
Allocation ; Collectivité locale ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie humaine ; New York City ; Redistribution de la population ; Relocalisation ; Service public
La localisation des services publics tels que les pompiers, la police, les bibliothèques ou les écoles accuse un retard sur la redistribution de la population locale. D'où des anomalies dans l'offre de services publics. Exemple de la ville de New
Changing metropolitan morphology and municipalservice expenditures in cities and rings in Metropolitan and regional change in the United States.
Si les anneaux suburbains offrent des emplois aux habitants du centre et de l'extérieur, leur population doit supporter des charges de plus en plus lourdes pour les services utilisés par les non-résidents.
Municipal amalgamation and the growth of the local public sector in Sweden
Analyse de données sur la dimension du secteur public municipal en Suède, période 1942-87, dans le contexte d'un modèle de l'électeur médian. Il apparaît que la décentralisation (nombre d'unités au service d'une population donnée) agit sur
Aire d'influence ; Commerce ; Espagne ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Service ; Valencia, prov. ; Xativa, ville
Xativa, province de Valence, est un carrefour commercial et un lieu de services. L'étendue de son influence se détermine par l'afflux des usagers des moyens de transport collectifs, par les limites de son aire d'influence commerciale, culturelle
, sanitaire et bancaire. Elle englobe 46 municipes et 87000habitants entourés par une zone d'influence plus clairsemée de 21 municipes et de 62000habitants. (J. Lopez Gomez).
Voluntarism, municipalism and welfare : the geography of hospital utilization in England in 1938
Accessibilité ; Années 1930 ; Collectivité locale ; Disparités régionales ; England ; Equipement hospitalier ; Géographie historique ; Politique sociale ; Protection sociale ; Royaume-Uni ; Services de santé
Accessibility ; England ; Historical geography ; Hospital facilities ; Local government ; Medical services ; Regional disparities ; Social policy ; United Kingdom ; Welfare ; Years 1930-39
Reluctant cities, colonias and municipal underbounding in the US : Can cities be convinced to annex poor enclaves?
Annexion urbaine ; California ; Communauté ; Décision ; Enclave urbaine ; Etats-Unis ; Financement ; Géographie sociale ; Infrastructure ; Politique urbaine ; Quartier ; Rôle de l'Etat ; Service public
California ; Community ; Decision ; Financing ; Infrastructure ; Neighbourhood ; Public service ; Role of the State ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Urban policy
This paper focuses on the municipal underbounding—the unwillingness of cities to annex poor neighbouring areas through the examples of three cities or colonias in Imperial County, California: Calexico, El Centro, and the City of Imperial
Effects of club size in the provision of public goods. Network and congestion effects in the case of the French municipalities
Collectivité locale ; Demande ; Economie urbaine ; Encombrement ; France ; Offre ; Préférence ; Service public ; Taille des villes
City size ; Congestion ; Demand ; France ; Local government ; Preference ; Public service ; Supply ; Urban economy
of provision are that of a political process in which both the demand and the supply sides are considered. The supply model performs better than the demand model in the case of small municipalities. In so far as impact of city size on the quality of club goods
Municipal preferences for state-imposed amalgamations : an empirical study based on the Swedish municipal reform of 1952
Administrative geography ; Administrative reform ; Cooperation ; District ; Municipality ; Political geography ; Public service ; Role of the State ; Sweden ; Territorial planning ; Wage inequality
Aménagement du territoire ; Commune ; Coopération ; District ; Fusion administrative ; Géographie administrative ; Géographie politique ; Impôts locaux ; Inégalité des revenus ; Réforme administrative ; Rôle de l'Etat ; Service public ; Suède