Battlement esa: new life for a Colorado mining town
Colorado ; Community ; Energy ; Environment ; Oil ; Small town ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban function
Originally built as a residential town for energy resource workers, Battlement Mesa is now occupied by in-migrants, many from California, who seek small-town living in the Rockies. - (DWG)
Small town growth and development policy in Pakistan
Agricultural economics ; Location ; Pakistan ; Regional disparities ; Rural centre ; Rural development ; Small town ; Urbanization ; Urbanization of the countryside
This study examines the process of small town development and growth in Pakistan. The towns located in the agriculturally developed areas have better opportunities for development than the others. Although government economic development policies
have influenced the location and development of small towns, local leadership plays an important role in their socio-economic development.
Afrique du Sud ; Cape Province ; Cape Town ; Identité culturelle ; Langue ; Quartier ; Religion ; Société urbaine ; Ségrégation
Cape Province ; Cape Town ; Cultural identity ; Language ; Religion ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Urban district ; Urban society
Cape Town is a suitable experimental ground to focus the methodological and conceptual shift from a national to an urban resolution level in language mapping. Although Cape Town is linguistically one of the least diverse cities in South Africa
Calming down of traffic is a town- and traffic- planning concept which shall serve and conserve the qualities of towns. It must also be an integral component of the concepts to reform the town-traffic as well as to improve the town-space in function
Copper ; Honshu ; Japan ; Mine ; Pollution ; Small town ; Tourism ; Urban history
The small town of Ashio, 110 km from Tokyo, is an old copper mining town whose population has fallen 80% since its heyday. In spite of a pollution problem, efforts are made there to turn the town into a tourist attraction. - (DWG)
Cultural studies ; Ethnic group ; Iowa ; Perception of the urban environment ; Tourism ; Town ; United States ; Urban landscape ; Village
Town (public life of the 1920s) ; and Agrarian America (preindustrial farms and countrysides). Many towns in need of economic revitalization now follow detailed marketing plans to promote themselves to tourists in one of these four categories. However
, in the long run, towns will need more than any of these commercial ploys in order to survive. - (DWG)
Architectural legacy ; Colonial city ; Historical geography ; Latin America ; Madrid ; Sixteenth Century ; Spain ; Town ; Town plan ; Town planning ; Urban development ; Urban history ; Urban morphology ; Urban structure ; Urbanism
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Galicia ; Pilgrimage ; Religion ; Spain ; Tourism ; Town
Personalized account of a hiking journey on a section of the Way of St. James in northern Spain, with comments on towns visited, landscapes experienced, and people met. - (DWG)
Hungary ; Population density ; Settlement ; Small town ; Town ; Urban function ; Urban morphology ; Urban population ; Urban settlement ; Working population
This research describes the settlement morphology of Mezöhegyes, a small town that is unique in that the original pattern was aimed to serve economic purposes and planned accordingly by civil engineers. The original manors have decreased in number
East Germany's new towns in transition : a grassroots view of the impact of unification
Democracy ; German Democratic Republic ; Germany ; Housing ; New town ; Participation ; Reunification ; Rostock ; Social relations ; Unemployment ; Urban life ; Urban society
Development strategy ; Environmental degradation ; Living conditions ; Mali ; Regional economy ; Rural-urban relations ; Sahel ; Socio-economic system ; Town ; Urban life
The objective of this study is to gain insight into the socio-economic and geographical structures of the town of Mopti and its surrounding areas, the change which have recently taken place in these structures, and the ensuing town-hinterland
The A. aims to show how the current urban area of this prefectural city of Japan has been changed from its original castle town and to interpret the process of this change as transformation from the mosaic structure planned and built by a feudal
lord to the structure which has grown in a piecemeal and unplanned manner under a variety of influences. Attention is focused on the historic core of today's Akita, the original castle town site, and then the changes of land use of the city have been