Architecture ; United States of America ; Urbanfunction ; Urban geography ; Urban landscape ; Urban morphology
Engaging treatment of the architectural, functional and historical character of commercial, institutional, and residential buildings that form cities. Written from the geographic perspectives of place and space, the focus is on the USA, with other
On the determination of city character in urban planning.
to be resolved in the assessment are the comparability of Chinese urban statistical data, a convenient way to calculate the basic/ non-basic, and perfection of the intensity index of urbanfunctions introduced in this study.
City function and character are interrelated, both changing with time. The assessment of city character should also be based on the regional analysis,quantitative and qualitative analysis, and a comparative approach is important. Problems waiting
Business district ; Honshu ; Inner city ; Japan ; Land use ; Suburbs ; Tokyo ; Urbanfunction ; Urban growth
, as well as the change in functional accumulation, location of multi-stories buildings, and change in floor use for each function of 1981 and 1987. He indicates that the differences in the function of CBDs in the two cities can be explained by differences
The functions of Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and Nantong in the Shanghai Economic Region.
There are over two thousand urban settlements within the Changjiang Delta area and a large and complex system of urban places with different functions is distinguishable. The four large cities have clearly functioned as development poles
Typologia funkcjonalna miast Rumunii w swietle analizy czynnikowej. (The functional typology of Romania's cities in the light of the factor analysis)
The author has investigated the functions od 183 Rumanian towns, which possessed city charters in 1966. She based the towns'characteristics on 19 properties defining urbanfunctions. It is for the first time that the functions of Romanian cities
have been investigated by means of a mathematical-quantitative model of the factor analysis, i.e. the algorism of main components. Eight principal types of Rumanian cities have been differentiated: five types of multi-function cities and three types
Financing Urban Development : what is the role of European Investment Bank ?
Bank ; Europe ; Finland ; Germany ; Hungary ; Investment ; Italy ; United Kingdom ; Urban area ; Urban development
The article assesses the role of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in European capital markets for urban development. Following the introduction of a basic concept for the functioning of capital markets, and based on rsearch in Germany, Finland
, Hungary, Italy and the U.K., the article explores the investment needs in cities, the demand for urban finance, the supply of urban finance and the functioning of capital markets for urban finance. - (IfL)
Urban systems and the development of towns and cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Region.
The structure of urban systems in this region is characterised by (1) two closely located primary nodes functioning respectively as the national administrative centre and the prime economic centre of North China, (2) two levels in urbanfunction
-national and provincial, (3) unbalanced growth in the hierarchy levels with the metropolises outstripping the medium and small cities. The differences in the functions and directions of development are pointed out for the three big cities and attention
Economic integration ; Large city;Metropolis ; Local government ; Netherlands (The) ; Randstad ; Urban development ; Urbanfunction ; Urban network ; Urban region
Enterprise ; Honshu ; Japan ; Large city ; Location ; Offices ; Tertiary sector ; Tokyo ; Urbanfunction
This paper aims to analyze the role of office supply in attracting office functions and promoting the growth of business districts in the Tokyo metropolitan area, by considering the trends in office development, office markets and the location
of office functions in 1980s and early 1990s. - (KA)
Commuting patterns of secondary school students in the functionalurban region of Budapest
Budapest ; Commuting ; Education ; Household behaviour ; Hungary ; Secondary education ; Urban infrastructure ; Urban region
The objective of the study is to explore the potential imbalance between demand for secondary education and the supply of schools within the social activity space of education in the functionalurban region of Budapest and analyse the regional
and household data from a household survey in the functionalurban area of Budapest. - (AM)
Urban redevelopment and spatial change of the central shopping area in Sakai city from the viewpoints of vertical growth
Honshu ; Inner city ; Japan ; Redevelopment ; Retail trade ; Urban area ; Urban change ; Urban development ; Urbanfunction
This paper is to clarify the reorganization of retail activities and changes of the accumulation of urban core functions in Sakai City, located near the Sakai-Higashi station of the Nankai Koya line, Osaka metropolitan area. - (KA)
Berlin ; Capital city ; Germany ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urbanfunction ; Urban geography ; Urban population
Since 1990 it has on one hand been catching up on normality and the other hand developing the position and function of its region in a national and international context. In the 90s Berlin was characterised by population decrease, primarily caused
Characterising urban sprawl on a local scale with accessibility measures
Accessibility ; Indicator ; Land use ; Measurement ; South Korea ; Urbanfunction ; Urban geography ; Urban morphology ; Urban sprawl
The study aims to develop and operationalise accessibility-based sprawl indicators. It employs two accessibility-based indicator categories and develops their measures : accessibilities to urbanfunctions and open spaces. The index shaws a clear
This book is divided in two parts. The first part considers the historical geography of the urban development in the Netherlands since the Golden Age. The main themes are urbanfunctions, the urban-rural relations and the urban transportation
network. In the second part the author analyses the urban spatial organisation in the twentieth century with attention to problems of city classification, tertiary functions, city regions, spatial behavior of individuals enterprises and organisations
, the urban hierarchical networks and the urban system on a regional scale. (AGD).
the above entities in respect of the morphological and functional aspects to a large city’s structure. An overview of cognitive and planning achievements in the field of the delimitation of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas in Poland is also
This article has sought to elucidate the difference between the urban agglomeration and the metropolitan area, in the light of the output of Polish urban geography. Special attention is paid to the relationship between the ways of conceiving
offered, the primary conclusion from the work being that the metropolis and its metropolitan area, as a concentration of high-order functions and international-scale links, represents a more advanced stage in the development of the large-city settlement
Servicefunksjoners lokalisering og befolkningsunderlag i byer og tettsteder The localization of service functions and the population in towns and urban agglomerations
A survey and evaluation of localization of the service functions and population in towns and urban agglomerations in the counties of Finnmark, Sogn og Fjordane, and Telemark. The study is based on a country-wide registration made by the Ministry