China ; Economic reform ; Foreign investment ; Migration ; Urban geography ; Urban growth ; Urban population ; Urbanization
Rates or urbanization in China are increasing through heavy migration from rural areas. Four large metropolitan regions near the coast have emerged. - (DWG)
Environment ; Land use ; Town ; Urban change ; Urban environment ; Urban planning
The volume contains the result of the research carried out by the Urban Change Unit of Italy's Human Dimensions of the Global Environmental Change Programme. It is an overview of the most important aspects of the most recent urban changes
China ; Research ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban morphology ; Urban structure ; Urban system ; Urbanization
The paper focuses on systematic and overall review of literatures on China's urban geography in recent years. Attention is particularly paid on the progress in new themes and generalization of major arguments.
Third World cities: sustainable urban development, 1
Democracy ; Living standard ; Sustainable development ; Third World ; Town ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban environment ; Urban society ; Urbanization
Network cities: creative urban agglomerations for the 21st century
Central places ; Centrality ; Japan ; Netherlands (The) ; Randstad ; Rank-size distribution ; Urban dynamics ; Urban hierarchy ; Urban network ; Urban theory
The global economy is nurturing an innovative class of polycentric urban configurations. A network city evolves when two or more previously independent cities, potentially complementary in function, strive to cooperate and achieve significant scope
A future of telework. Towards a new urban planning concept ?
Denmark ; Developed countries ; Germany ; Induced effect ; Italy ; Labour ; Netherlands (The) ; Switzerland ; Telematics ; Transport ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban migration ; Urban planning
This book is the result of the international workshop A future of telework: towards a new urban planning concept held in Delft, 1994. The main goal of the workshop was to collect: insight into the conditions for the development of telework
; knowledge of its effects on urban planning and transport; information on the sate of the art of telework knowledge in different countries and considerations on the future development of telework. - (AGD)
Regional cities in Australia's changing urban system
Urban systems and regional change
Area of attraction ; Australia ; Economic restructuring ; Settlement ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban function ; Urban network ; Urban system ; Urbanization
Administration ; Arab city ; Architecture ; Capital city ; Cultural studies ; Political sociology ; Urban administration ; Urban area ; Urban function ; Urban geography ; Urban growth ; Urban life ; Urban morphology ; Urban society ; Urban structure
Tha A. proposes to explore in more depth one strand of the tradition within geography: the geographical expedition program, an initiative that was linked with the development of radical approaches to urban phenomena in the late 1960s and early 1970s
. A critical engagement with the legacy of expeditions can contribute toward the methodological and epistemological discussions. A redefinition can inform the development of a more sophisticated critical urban geography.