Urbangrowth under conditions of unbalanced urban development
This paper points to symptoms of unbalanced growth of the urban region of Warsaw in the period of accelerated growth prior to 1975 and the subsequent economic collapse around 1980, illustrated with selected problems of the growth rate of employment
, population and housing. Effects of a policy of controlling urbangrowth at a time of labor and housing shortages.
Urban-rural partnerships are an important element for spatial development. They provide a way to combine growth and balancing policy and they enable peripheral and economically weak areas to participate in growth and innovation. But this will only
work if all parts contribute with their potentials to economic growth. The idea is evident; nevertheless, there are still open questions on how to achieve these goals. - (IfL)
This article examines Zipf’s Law and Canadian urbangrowth. It appears that the dynamics of growth follow a deterministic process related to existing urban size, previous growth and spatial structure. Splitting the Canadian urban system into two
—east and west— permits the identification of differences that were not observable when studying the country as a whole. While size and previous growth are still important explanatory variables of growth patterns, these two systems may be distinguished
one from the other from the point of view of spatial patterns of distribution of growth rates.
The politics of growth control : struggles in Pasadena, California
California ; Economic restructuring ; Housing ; Ideology ; Los Angeles ; Social control ; United States ; Urban conflict ; Urbangrowth ; Urban planning ; Urban renewal ; Urban structure
This case study analyzes the opposition to growth controls in Pasadena, by the Chamber of Commerce and black leaders of the City. It delves into the question of who benefits from growth and the type of ideologies that find themselves in conflict
when cities face the pressure engendered by growth.
Urbanization and economic growth in Indonesia : good news, bad news and (possible) local government mitigation
Economic development ; Economic growth ; Gross domestic product ; Indonesia ; Infrastructure ; Population growth ; Public expenditure ; Role of the State ; Urban population ; Urbanization
Time-series analysis for Indonesia over the period 1960–2009 suggests that the level of urbanization is positively associated with economic growth but that the rate of change of urbanization is nega-tively correlated with growth of economic output
. A sub-national dynamic panel investigation provides additional evidence of the positive and negative level and rate effects, respectively. The panel analysis also implies that the harmful impact of urban population growth is linked to insufficient local
public infrastructure spending. Local governments that invest more heavily in infrastructure are better able to cope with the apparent detrimental effects of rapid urbanization on economic growth.
Rapid growth of economy in China pushed the process of urbanization. With urban economic activities making up an increasing share of GDP, productivity of urban economy influences economic growth. Four megalopolises have emerged, and their GDP
exceeds 35% of the country's total. The rapid urbanization also resulted in a series of problems on development and environment.
A five-stage evolutionary model of landscape change is proposed that is tied in with the growth of towns and cities in this vast region of rapid change. - (DWG)
Going up the country: internationalization and urbanization on Frankfurt's northern fringe
Core-periphery ; Frankfurt am Main ; Germany ; Hessen ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban fringe ; Urbangrowth ; Urban landscape ; Urban structure
kinds and two discourses on growth. Central and peripheral growth are linked in an oscillating movement of mutually reinforcing dynamics. The articulation of these dynamics with the local political space of the northern fringe is examined.
The paper aims to understand the morphological transformation of the urban network of Wrocław caused by the rapid development and urbangrowth impacts. In an attempt to investigate the reason for morphological transformation of Wrocław urban network
, the study focuses on the analysis of their spatial transformation through the comparative syntactic analysis during the historic process of growth of Wrocław. The spatial analysis based on Space Syntax theories and techniques. - (BJ)
Agglomeration ; Land ; Model ; Optimization ; Spatial equilibrium ; Urban economy ; Urbangrowth ; Urban model
Sasaki generalizes the urban-growth control model developed by Bruekner and Lai, and concludes that the optimal urban-growth control is less (more) stringent than the B-L model when an agglomeration effect (public-good-provision effect
) is considered. The paper proves that the optimal urban-growth control may or may not be more stringent than the B-L model when the agglomeration effect or (and) the public-good-provision effect is (are) considered. This result sharply differs from
Characteristics and processes of urbanization in the Caribbean
Caribbean ; City size ; Demographic change ; Housing ; Urban morphology ; Urban population ; Urbanization ; West Indies ; World
Synthesis of recent urbanization in the Caribbean, focusing on demographic growth, urban primacy, internal morphology, employment, housing, urban crime and perception.―(DWG)
Asia ; Developing countries ; Latin America ; Urbangrowth ; Urban morphology
Nowadays the centre of urbangrowth is located primarely in the newly modernizing economies of Asia and Latin America, but some of the metropolises of the stagnating developing countries also show astonishing speed of population growth. The article
deals with the phenomenon of urban explosion in the developing countries. - (AM)