Introduction to urbangeography. Chapters: Urbangeography and interdisciplinary urban research. -Definitions and dimensions of urbanisation. -Urban agglomeration. -City types, urban systems and central places. -Theories and models of urban
structure. -urban subdivisions. -Intra-urban centers. -Cities in Central Europe before industrialisation. -Urban development in the industrial age. -Urban development in Germany, a west-east-comparison. Cities in selected cultural areas. - (HPB)
9 chapters : Development of urbanization| Comparative studies in the present features| The concepts of urban system and the development of urban systems studies| Advancement and problems of central place studies| Studies in elements or urban systems
| Studies of inter-urban linkage| Developing processes of urban systems| Improving strategies of urban systems| Research problems on urbanization and urban system. - (KA)
History of geography ; Japan ; Urbangeography ; Urban structure ; Urban system
Géographie urbaine ; Histoire de la géographie ; Japon ; Structure urbaine ; Système urbain
This paper aims to indicate the history of urbangeography in postwar Japan. The author summarized it for 4 stages and indicated the results and the problems of urbangeography in postwar Japan. - (KA)
China ; Research ; Urban development ; Urbangeography ; Urban morphology ; Urban structure ; Urban system ; Urbanization
Chine ; Développement urbain ; Géographie urbaine ; Morphologie urbaine ; Recherche ; Structure urbaine ; Système urbain ; Urbanisation
The paper focuses on systematic and overall review of literatures on China's urbangeography in recent years. Attention is particularly paid on the progress in new themes and generalization of major arguments.
The paper reviews the changing nature of the growing specialized trends of urbangeography in India since independence, with a particular emphasis to the 1980s and early 1990. Urbangeography has emerged as a major academic sub-field in India
Rates or urbanization in China are increasing through heavy migration from rural areas. Four large metropolitan regions near the coast have emerged. - (DWG)
The role of planners and planning in shaping urban space
South Africa ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urbangeography ; Urban planning
Afrique du Sud ; Développement urbain ; Espace urbain ; Géographie urbaine ; Planification urbaine
The role of planning and planners in shaping urban space has been sharply contested in recent years. While planners are not the driving force determining urban development in South Africa, they play a significant role in shaping urban space. - (AJC)
Recent developments in community participation in urban planning in the United States in New trends in urban planning. Studies in housing, urban design and planning.
Comportement ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie humaine ; Géographie politique ; Participation ; Politique locale ; Urbanisme ; Utilisation du sol
Globalization ; Large city ; Right to the city ; Urbangeography ; Urban policy ; Urban social movement ; Urban society ; Urbanization
Droit à la ville ; Géographie urbaine ; LEFEBVRE (H.) ; Mondialisation ; Mouvement social urbain ; Métropole ; Politique urbaine ; Société urbaine ; Urbanisation
In Le Droit à la Ville (1968), Lefebvre projects the urban trajectory of his day into the sci-fi imaginary of Asimov's remarkable Foundation series. In La Révolution Urbaine (1970), Lefebvre had already begun hinting at a new reality, not only
an urban society, but of planetary urbanization. Today, four decades on, Asimov's extraterrestrial universe seems closer to home than ever, and closer to Lefebvre's own terrestrial prognostications : planetary urbanization is creating a whole new spatial
world (dis)order. The article tries to rethink theoretically the urban question and the question of urban politics in our era of planetary urbanization, working through the political role of the urban in the light of recent ‘Occupy’ mobilizations.