The article presents a contemporary profile of the socio-economic characteristics of 20 Jamaican shanty towns in Montego Bay, Spanish Town, and rural St. Andrew, utilizing data from surveys conducted between 1978 and 1982. The processes
of development and the internal dynamics of these settlements over a 20 year period are discussed. Includes glossary of Jamaican terms related to shanty town life. (MPM).
Border towns, gambling and the Mormon culture region
Small towns in Nevada and Wyoming cater to the gambling desires of residents of Utah and Idaho where strong Mormon influence has made gambling and betting illegal. - (DWG)
Case study of town development in 14 agricultural counties of North Dakota from their origins at the beginning of white settlement up to ca. 1920. Railroads played the major role in settlement process and morphology. - (D. W. Gade).
Where every town is above average : welcoming signs along America's highways
After World War II, many small municipalities across America erected road signs to welcome travelers. The boosterism implicit in this custom sought to document the town's putative uniqueness. - (DWG)
Common houses in America's small towns, the Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley.
Presentation of vernacular house characteristics and their geographical distributions based on surveys in 20 small study towns in the eastern half of the U.S.A. Typology of 67 dwelling types. These houses reflect American social, economic
The small-town viability question in a prairie context
The phenomenon of population reversal away from major urban centres to small towns is considered in a Canadian context. Specifically, the paper examines towns from the Manitoba portion of the prairies which have benefited from modest population gain
Cuba was one of the first urbanizing countries in the American continent. The author selects two towns, Camagüey and Cienfuegos to present the morphological features of Cuban towns. Changes in urbanization since the 1959 revolution are also outlined
Migration, employment and development: on the role of small towns in the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil) in Equity with growth? Planning perspectives for small towns in developing countries.
Pionierssteden in het oerwoud. Stedelijke ontwikkelingen aan een agrarisch kolonisatiefront in het Braziliaanse Amazonegebied.. (Pioneer towns in the jungle. Urbanisation at an agricultural colonization frontier in the Brazilian Amazon
This research deals with the economic functioning of boom towns, and their spatial and economic structure in those parts of the Brazilian Amazon where agricultural colonization takes place. The main objective of the research was to find out to what
extent and in what way there is a relation between on the one hand the urban functions, the economic and spatial structure of the pioneer towns and the basic of survival for those who live there and on the other hand the frontier of agricultural
The impact of industrial decisions was studied in two towns : St Johns, Arizona, when a coal-fired electric generating plant was built in this ranching center in 1975| and Bisbee, Arizona, when Phelps-Dodge Corporation reduced its copper-smelting
operation in that mining town. The positive impact of the first was not as good as claimed, nor was the negative impact of the second as negative as first thought. - (DWG)