Rural-urban migration and unemployment : theory and policy implications
Economic equilibrium ; Employment ; Job creation ; Living standard ; Regional economy ; Regional model ; Rural outmigration ; Unemployment ; Urban immigration
that it is unique. Two policies are considered : decreasing urban unemployment benefits and subsidizing urban employment. Decreasing the unemployment benefit in the city creates urban jobs and reduces rural–urban migration since new migrants have to spend some time
unemployed before they can find a job in the city. Raising employment subsidies increases urban employment but may also increase urban unemployment because it triggers more rural–urban migration.
Berlin ; Buenos Aires ; Creativeness ; Cultural studies ; Lagos ; London ; Los Angeles ; Political ecology ; Seoul ; Site of memory ; Urban change ; Urban geography ; Urbanization
This edited volume brings together a range of international scholarship on cities, urbanization, and urban culture. The format of the collection involves short essays that explore such themes as new forms of political mobilization, the effects
of economic instability, the political ecology of urban nature, and the presence of collective memory. Cultural aspects of urban change are considered, including the work of artists and film makers who have critically engaged with processes of urban change
Bunkerology - a case study in the theory and practice of urban exploration
Internet ; Site preservation ; Town ; Urban environment
The paper reviews existing academic interpretations of urban exploration and argues that focus on identifying the emancipatory dimension of this practice has failed to account for the orientation evident in the study of accounts of exploration
of Cold War bunkers posted on urban exploration Internet forums.
debates on the further direction to follow in the frame of post-socialist economic and urban restructuring. The author describes the current tendencies and the deliberate investment directions which significantly influenced the development of the city
Who's Participation? Who's Sustainability ? A Critical Analysis of Initiatives for Urban Sustainability inIndia
Environment ; Environmental justice ; India ; Madras ; Participation ; Political ecology ; Stream ; Sustainable development ; Tamil Nadu ; Town planning ; Urban landscape ; Urban park ; Urbanization
This paper considers urban environmental sustainability in cities of the global South. Drawing on the insights of urban political ecology and a critique of participatory development, the author argues that environmental sustainability initiatives
mask the political economy of environmental injustice and uneven urban development. This argument is fleshed out through a case study of the Adyar Poonga river restoration project in Chennai, India. The case study highlights two key dimensions of what
is termed the ‘depoliticisation’ of the production of urban nature. First, the political conflicts that surround urban environmental projects are neutralized through a definition of sustainability that is primarily concerned with making environmentalism
and economic development compatible. Second, conflicts surrounding urban environments are ostensibly ‘depoliticized’ through highly selective practices of ‘participation’. Generalized in this way, the discourse and practice of participation gloss over the power
asymmetries that characterize the civic sphere in urban India. As environmental best practice is being actively formulated and replicated through projects like the Adyar Poonga, it becomes ever more urgent, to interrogate the mechanisms of political inclusions
/exclusion and to question who benefits from urban environmental change.
Concept ; Inter-disciplinary approach ; Social structure ; Urban area ; Urban morphology ; Urban settlement ; Urban structure
The purpose of this interdisciplinary article is to present a structural unit of urban space termed the morphomark, as a concept adopted from urban morphology. The article compiles concepts of space, as these reflect morphological processes
of the interdisciplinary study of spatial (natural and social) structure. The article reproduces morphology as a subject area of the disciplines for which the study of forms are common. Urban morphology as an art of urban forms is also discussed. – (BJ)
Bombay ; Knowledge ; Learning process ; Production of space ; Urban geography ; Urban policy ; Urbanism
the concept of urban learning assemblage to explain the complex processes through which knowledge and learning enable and limit various forms of urbanism. - (HC)
The paper states the great relevance of the urban climate. This kind of knowledge and applied researches can contribute to planning of new urban settlement and, generally, improve the city environment and the human quality life. The paper describes
the main urban climate peculiarities, the methodological approaches and the policy measures of intervention. - (NF)
Austria ; Comparative study ; Czech Republic ; Housing ; Prague ; Spatial distribution ; Town ; Urban development ; Urban population ; Urban region ; Urbanization ; Vienna
The article critically examines the model of stages of urban development and its operationalization for empirical research. We identify and display shortcomings in the model through an analysis of changes in the spatial distribution
of the population and dwellings in Prague and Vienna urban regions from 1980 to 2001. We therefore suggest an alternative method of classifying forms of urbanization. - (EN)
Dynamic analysis of urban spatial expansion and its determinants in Xiamen Island
China ; Economic development ; Fujian ; Industrialization ; Island ; Land use ; Twentieth Century ; Twenty-first century ; Urban economy ; Urban history ; Urban planning ; Urban sprawl ; Urbanization
2011
[b1] Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, Xiamen, Chine
[b2] Xiamen Key Lab of Urban Metabolism, Xiamen, Chine
Citizenship ; Inner city ; Land use ; Polycentrism ; Real estate development ; Role of the State ; United Kingdom ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urban fragmentation ; Urban landscape ; Urban policy ; Urbanization
Global city theory and the new urban politics twenty years on : the case for a geohistorical materialist approach to the (new) urban politics of global cities : Renewing urban politics
Renewing urban politics
Bank ; Deregulation ; England ; Finance ; Globalization ; London ; Real estate market ; Role of the State ; United Kingdom ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban policy ; World city
Urbanization of capital or capitalization on urban land ? land development and local public finance in urbanizing chinae
Built up area ; China ; Jiangsu ; Land reform ; Land rights ; Land use ; Regional economy ; Taxation system ; Territorial planning ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urbanization
2011
[b2] China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, Beijing, Chine
Sustainable cities - response to urban environmental problems
Auckland ; Environmental conservation ; New Zealand ; Quality of life ; Sustainable city ; Sustainable development ; Urban ecology ; Urban geography ; Urbanization ; Waitakere City
Urban areas have considerable impact on the environment, which is reflected on the global level, but at the same time face many environmental problems. Sustainable cities proceed from the need to improve the quality of city life and incorporate all
Festivalisation and urban renewal in the Global South : socio-spatial consequences of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Event ; Festival ; Football ; Impact ; South Africa ; Town ; Urban planning ; Urban renewal
. Infrastructural upgrades and fast tracking of urban development projects, as well as giving focus and legitimation to urban policy makers, are supposedly the further benefits of hosting mega events. These concepts are examined in the context of the FIFA World Cup
that are found on walls and the broader role of walls within urban biodiversity, before discussing the potential for ecological engineering of walls. Some progress has recently been made in the latter area with the installation of living walls and the physical
engineering of wall materials, but much more needs to be done to effectively increase their physical complexity and habitat quality. Walls therefore represent a substantial potential (as well as existing) habitat within urban areas.
The political economy of place at the post-socialist urban periphery : governing growth on the edge of Moscow
Economic transition ; Edge city ; European part of Russia ; Moscow ; Outer conurbation area ; Post-communism ; Urban growth ; Urban planning ; Urban region ; Urbanization