Central Europe ; Congress ; Czech Republic ; Regional development ; Town ; Urban environment
The 13th meeting of geographers in Prachatice. Proceedings Seminar was in essence devoted to Central European character of towns. The town and its hinterland measures taken to ensure the development of the Šumava Region. - (MS)
The attraction force of out-of-town shopping malls : a case study on run-fun shopping in the Netherlands
The paper deals with the potential competition of an out-of-town shopping mall in the retail sector (Alexandrium in Greater Rotterdam) with respect to the inner-city of Rotterdam. It aims to identify the motives of visitors and buyers for such large
to the number of immigrants. During the years of transition the internal migration flows have changed their direction. In previous times the migrations from rural areas to towns were dominating, during transformation they turned in direction town-to-town. - (IFL)
Access to water for the urban poor in Cape Town : where equity meets cost recovery
Afrique du Sud ; Approvisionnement en eau ; Cape Province ; Cape Town ; Circuit de distribution ; Collectivité locale ; Eau ; Espace urbain ; Infrastructure ; Service ; Service public ; Ségrégation
Cape Province ; Cape Town ; Infrastructure ; Local government ; Marketing channel ; Public service ; Segregation ; Service ; South Africa ; Urban area ; Water ; Water supply
Land and labor in the post-industrial university town : remaking social geography
Community ; Connecticut ; Economic impact ; Labour market ; Redevelopment ; Town ; United States of America ; University ; Urban economy ; Urban function ; Urban renewal
Architectural legacy ; Cultural patrimony ; Historic centre ; Tanzania ; Town
Les bâtiments de la vieille ville de Zanzibar (Stone Town) sont pris en compte, préservés et mis en exergue en tant qu'ensembles et lieux de vie pour leurs valeurs symboliques, sociales, culturelles et économiques. Ce patrimoine culturel tend vers
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Epistemology ; Italy ; Liguria ; Literature ; Town ; Urban landscape
Italo Calvino in an essay about Savona, published in 1974, not only describes historical centre of the Ligurian town, the harbour and the great iron-works at the food of Priamar fortress, built by genoese government in the place of ancient political
Facilities ; France ; Large town ; Sanitation improvement ; Town ; Water cycle ; Water economics ; Water management ; Water quality ; Water resources ; Water supply
The process of taking over state lands by inhabitants of towns is a new form of agrarian transformation in Poland. The authors analysed this phenomenon on the basis of lands managed by the agricultural Property Agency of the State Treasury (APA
) in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodship. It has been pointed out that contractors from towns leased or purchased 57 000 ha the state-owned lands, i.e. 23 % of the total area belonged to the APA. - (BJ)
Ethnicity ; Handbook ; Immigration ; Metropolisation ; Religion ; Suburbanization ; Suburbs ; Town ; Town planning ; United States of America ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban district ; Urban society ; Urban sprawl
Daily life ; Housing ; Partnership ; Public policy ; Public space ; Social integration ; Social policy ; Town ; Town planning ; Urban district ; Urban immigration ; Urban life ; Urban policy
Historical geography ; Italy ; Piemonte ; Regional geography ; Small town ; Urban economy ; Urban history
Casale is a small town (37000 inhabitants) located in eastern Piedmont, on the right bank of the Po river. Thanks to its favourable position, in the 15th century it became the capital of the Marquisate of Monferrato and the eat of a diocese. Two