A ghanaian town revisited : changes and continuities in local adaptive strategies
City;Town ; Development strategy ; Ghana ; Urban economy
A study of the changes between 1982-3 and 1989 of two towns in south eastern Ghana, Ayirebi and Asokore. Self help and self reliance are important in continuing adverse economic conditions.―(EMS)
Basis for the continued existence of traditional-style commercial streets : a case study of West Broadway in Vancouver
British Columbia ; Canada ; Ethnic community ; Retail trade ; Store ; Street ; Urban area ; Urban district ; Vancouver
The purpose of this paper is to examine the composition of a traditional-style commercial street in Vancouver's inner area and find the reasons for its continued existence. - (KA)
Received concepts and theories in African urbanisation and management strategies : the struggle continues
Africa ; Collective facilities ; Drainage;Sanitation improvement ; Drinking water ; Housing ; Public service ; Urban administration ; Urban planning ; Urban policy ; Urban transport ; Urbanization
Over the past two decades, commentators and policy-makers have been enjoined to change their approach, but there are still many who have yet to adopt new attitudes. It is argued that concepts related to urban sanitation, water supply, urban
agriculture, urban transport and aspects of housing supply need to be redefined to reflect local circumstances.
British urban policy since 1997 : change and continuity
Great Britain ; Housing policy ; Local government ; Partnership ; Redevelopment ; United Kingdom ; Urban development ; Urban district ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal
The paper sets out the evolution of British urban policy since the Urban White Paper of 1977 with particular reference to the changes that have taken place under the Labour government after 1997. It considers the experience of the Urban Development
Corporations in the 1980s, explores the reasons why policy should have taken a significant change with the introduction of the Single Regeneration Budget and looks at the elements both of continuity and change since 1997.
Analyse régionale ; Demande ; Distance ; Distribution continue ; Economie ; Equipement ; Localisation ; Système d'information géographique
This paper discusses a single facility location problem that considers demand to be continuously distributed and allows a facility to be located anywhere in space, the continuous Weber problem. An approach for dealing with continuous demand
[b1] GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, Etats-Unis
Geographical information system ; Land use ; United States of America ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban environment ; Urban geography ; Urban planning
In the United States, the work of the planning profession goes on within a changing environment of intellectual and practical understanding, continually reshaped by political and social forces within and beyond planning.
The final phase of urban apartheid zoning in South Africa 1990/91
Apartheid ; Ethnic group ; Political reform ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Urban area ; Urban policy ; Zoning
Urban apartheid zonings in South Africa continued until the repeal of discriminary legislation. The apartheid city was thus virtually intact until June 1991. - (AJC)
Continuity and change in the restless urban landscape
Division of labour ; Household behaviour ; Industrial restructuring ; Minneapolis-Saint Paul ; Minnesota ; Residential mobility ; Social change ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban ecology ; Urban economy ; Urban landscape ; Urban society
Pension payouts, periodic markets and the continuance of urban dependence in rural South Africa
The former homelands of South Africa are characterised by extreme poverty, high levels of urban dependence, a reliance on pensions and low levels of agricultural production. A cas study in the Eastern Cape illustrates the importance of pensions
Three themes have been chosen for this report. The first is a methodological one, underlining the continuing importance of numerical simulation techniques in the investigation of small-scale climatic phenomena. The two remaining themes explore
advances in the understanding of the climates and climatic processes particular to two landscapes types, urban areas and forested regions.
Germany ; Historic centre ; Poland ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban renewal
for identity and continuity of history and they are also an important locational factor in the economic and touristic competition between the cities. For the aspect of renewal the German urban development promotion programme Historic Building Preservation
in Urban Development is presented. Another article deals with creative action areas in revitalising urban development. Furthermore, examples of urban renewal in shrinking city (Wittenberge) and - in contrast to Germany - in Poland are presented. - (IFL)
Verandering en continuiteit. Een studie over de dynamiek in en van de ruimtelijke organisatie van de bedrijvigheid met speciale aandacht voor het stelsel van melkverwerking in het ruraal-urbaan spanningsveld in Nederland Change and continuity
. A study concerning the dynamics in and of the spatial organisation of the economic activities with special reference to the system of milk processing in the rural-urban tension field in the Netherlands
Of the current theories concerning location and spatial organisation of primary, secondary and tertiary economic activities, none offers a satisfactory solution for the problem of change and continuity. Therefore this study aims at providing answers
to the following two sets of questions: What are nature and extent of the processes that bring about change and continuity in the spatial organisation. 2. What are nature and extent of the processes that control the mutual relation between change and continuity
California ; City perception ; Historical geography ; Los Angeles ; Suburbanization ; United States ; Urban development ; Urban landscape ; Urban morphology ; Urban structure
The result of the continued development of Los Angeles is a revision of the anti-urban imagery, signaled by high-rise construction and increasing urban density after 1960. Recent critical imagery of the city appears to be based on deep-rooted
Modes of engagement for urban research : enacting a politics of possibility
Discourse ; Durham ; North Carolina ; Project ; Research ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban district ; Urban geography ; Urban regeneration
Les AA. suggèrent qu'il existe un besoin continu d'étudier de manière critique les discours spatiaux mobilisés par les chercheurs et les acteurs qu'ils rencontrent. Les AA. préconisent pour le chercheur un mode d'engagement qui permet une critique
High technology location and the urban areas of Great Britain : developments in the 1980s
Economic restructuring ; Employment ; Great Britain ; High-tech industry ; Regional disparities ; Specialization ; Technology ; United Kingdom ; Urban economy
New towns appear more successful than other urban areas in attracting high technology, and this continued to be the case during the 1980s. There is evidence of a relative increase of high technology activity in smaller urban areas since 1981
Croatia ; Development axis ; Economic development ; Polarization ; Transport ; Urbanization
are identified, while urbanization axes are identified and categorized by means of the number and continuity of urban and urbanized settlements.
This paper identifies and categorizes traffic axes and analyses their significance in the development of urbanization axes in Central Croatia. By means of traffic infrastructure and the importance of traffic routes levels of developmental axes
Urbanization in South Africa and the changing character of migrant labour
Enquiry ; Household behaviour ; Labour migration ; Migratory flow ; Post-apartheid ; South Africa ; Urban immigration ; Urbanization
In South Africa migrant labours is indelibly associated with apartheid and influx control. But even since the abolition of influx control, labour migration has continued on a considerable scale. The purpose of this paper is to identify some
of the features of migrant labour as it exists today and to draw out some its implications for urbanization. - (AJC)