The economic geography of regional festivals: beer drinking and small town Mississippi river festivals
Description of small-town annual festivals in the upper Mississippi valley, highlighting the differnetial attitudes between Minnesota (settled mainly by Scandinavians) and Wisconsin (settled mainly by Germans) in their laws toward alcoholic
Transport planning for new town development: experience of Hong Kong
Commuting ; Hong Kong ; New town ; Public transport ; Socio-economic system ; Urban planning ; Urban transport
A study of the linkage between three new towns and metropolitan area confirms that substantial commuting trips are still made. The commuters' reliance on public transport is significant. The public transport network, trip rate, mode choice, costs
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
Czech Republic ; Location ; Public transport ; Settlement ; Town ; Transport ; Transport network
Evaluation of spatial position of selected towns in the central part of the Republic. In the period 1989-1990 the impacts of transportation, especially the public transport reached its peak to connections with important cities and towns. - (MS)
Abruzzi ; Demographic change ; Industrialization ; Italy ; Small town ; Urban economy ; Urban environment ; Urban site
This small town is situated between the rivers Verde and Aventino. The river Verde favoured the rise of small mills then transformed into industries for pasta. Although the development of this industry did not create a remarkable induced economic
activity, it allowed the growth of small factories which absorbed not only local manpower but also that of the close towns.
The paper shows the first results of field studies on behalf of the changes in the utilisation of infrastructure in the town of Tschernjachovsk (formerly Insterburg). The town is an important trading centre for a large rural sourrounding. Since
the political system change took place, the first elements of a market-economy have become perceptible in the town (banking facilities, law firms, retail stores...). A new function is developed because of the transit traffic to the neighbouring country
Growth pole ; Israel ; Methodology ; Multivariate analysis ; Regional development ; Socio-economic system ; Town
Cette nouvelle méthodologie sur le développement régional met l'accent sur le processus de mise en place de politiques différenciées de développement régional. Exemple de 40 development towns d'Israël. Exposé détaillé de la méthode Co-plot d'analyse
Administration ; Dublin ; Ireland ; Local administration ; Population density ; Regional development ; Town ; Twentieth Century ; Urban development ; Urban population