Happiness and job satisfaction in urban China : a comparative study of two generations of migrants and urban locals
Bonheur ; Chine ; Conditions de travail ; Emploi ; Géographie sociale ; Main-d'oeuvre ; Migration de travail ; Première génération ; Satisfaction ; Seconde génération
China ; Employment ; Labour migration ; Manpower ; Satisfaction ; Second generation ; Social geography ; Working conditions
This study investigates determinants of happiness and job satisfaction of urban locals, firstgeneration migrants and new-generation migrants in China’s urban workforce. It presents evidence to suggest that new-generation migrants are less satisfied
with their jobs and lives than first-generation migrants, despite having higher income. This finding is consistent with aspirations rising faster than income in China’s fast-growing urban economy.
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.
An evaluation of generation and region as urban categories
Nineteenth Century ; Suburbanization ; Town ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urbangeneration ; Urban geography ; Urban growth ; Urban model ; Urban morphology
L'A. s'intéresse aux divisions régionales entre Frostbelt et Sunbelt au sein des zones urbaines. Il constate que les villes du 20ème siècle sont différentes de celles du siècle dernier. Il étudie les générations urbaines au cours de l'histoire en
Planning doctrine and post-industrial urban development: the Amsterdam experience
Urban systems and the diversity of urban development
Amsterdam ; Centrality ; Netherlands (The) ; Urban district ; Urban function ; Urban planning ; Urban population ; Urban structure
The planners of the Amsterdam General Extension Plan (1935) developed a doctrine that covers three levels of functions and activities (a regional centre, a monocentric urban form, homogeneous neighbourhood communities around a centre). Since
the early 1970s Amsterdam has become an international centre, has developed into a polycentric urban region and has been acquiring ethnically mixed quarters. So in Amsterdam the planning doctrine was not particularly successful.
The paper summarizes the different underlying mechanisms which produce mega-city growth (incl. high natural increase of population and rural to urban migration generated by rural overpopulation and deprivation) and the crisis in mega-city governance
, the desintegration of urban society and ecological conflicts. The paper ends by formulating future scenarios. - (AM)
Charting urban space-time population shifts with trip generation models
California ; Population distribution ; San Diego ; Space time ; Spatial behaviour ; Trip ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban migration ; Urban population
A theory of urban decline : economy, demography and political elites
Business cycle ; Deindustrialization ; Economic base ; Industrial decline ; Industrialized countries ; Product cycle ; Theory ; Urban administration ; Urban economy ; Urban theory
If some large cities in advanced industrialised countries are countinuing to grow, many have experienced decline. To account for the process of decline and its consequences, a general model of urban decline is proposed. It specifies the relationship
between employment, population, political elites and urban fiscal revenues. Constructs and propositions are drawn from economic and ecological theorems. Empirical evidence is based on literature predominantly from Germany and the U.S.
Townscapes, townshapes, townships : investigating experiences of urban South Africa through Black art
Art ; Cultural geography ; Cultural landscape ; Humanistic geography ; Perception ; South Africa ; Urban environment ; Urban landscape ; Urban life
The humanistic movement is poorly represented in South African geography. Township art offers a wealth of images to extend excursions into the black urban environment into the visual realm and to deepen the local humanistic project in general. Its
evolution from a medium for descriptive social-realism towards an expression of urban consciousness prefigures and commends a more socially relevant geographical investigation of indigenous qualitative material.
Changing influences on the development of the European Community's major urban regions between 1971 and 1988
City;Town ; EEC ; Economic integration ; Europe ; Indicator ; Living standard ; Urban crisis ; Urban development ; Urban region ; Welfare
, can be related to generic forces for change within the EC, particularly the effects on local economies of the process of European integration, and to the structural characteristics of urban regions and those of the wider regions in which
The paper refines a measure of urban problems developed in previous publications and argues that it approximates to a measure of per capita welfare. It then shows that the change in this measure for the whole period 1971-88 and for three subperiods