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  • Migrant evaluations of the quality of urban life in Northeast Thailand
  • Urban incomers and rural change. The impact of migrants from the city on life in an Orkney community
  • The semantic production of space : pervasive computing and the urban landscape
  • Computing ; Information ; Social practice ; Technology ; Urban area ; Urban landscape ; Urban life
  • This paper suggests that as pervasive computing technologies have gained purchase in urban space they have also become more implicitly blended with everyday life and more contingent on information that is inductively compiled from Internet-based
  • data services. Drawing on examples of ongoing pervasive computing projects, implicit computing procedures are explored in relation to the mediation of everyday urban life. Literatures from computing science and geographical theory are brought
  • into conversation in order to examine the consequences of a convergence between implicit pervasive technologies and the spaces of everyday life.
  • [b1] Dept. of Urban Studies, Univ. of Washington, Tacoma, Etats-Unis
  • Rural–urban differences in life satisfaction : evidence from the European Union
  • Europe ; European Union ; Household ; Rural area ; Satisfaction ; Social geography ; Socio-economic indicators ; Town ; Urban area ; Urbanization
  • This paper uses data from the European Values Study 2008 to investigate rural–urban differences in life satisfaction across the European Union. Rural dwellers were found to have a significantly higher life satisfaction than city dwellers when
  • the factors behind the higher life satisfaction in rural areas, focusing on differences in levels of insecurity, frames of comparison and levels of social interaction.
  • New attitudes to social indicators in the evaluation of quality of life in New trends in urban planning. Studies in housing, urban design and planning.
  • The importance of neighbourhood in everyday life. First section
  • Competitiveness ; Daily life ; Gentrification ; Social change ; Social status ; Town ; Urban district ; Urban life
  • Living with difference : proximity and encounter in urban life
  • Behaviour ; Citizenship ; Difference ; Fear ; Social exclusion ; Social polarization ; Urban geography ; Urban life
  • Cultural facilities as an instrument of urban development programmes in an international comparison
  • Cultural studies ; Europe ; Quality of life ; Urban environment ; Urban policy ; Urbanism
  • used to enhance the quality of life and of the urban environment, to set signs for the development or restructuring of urban areas, to re-use redundant buildings or to promote private investments. - (L'A.).
  • Experiences from six countries (France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, USA, Germany) made available for a research project show that cultural facilities are more and more used as an instrument of urban development programmes. They are among others
  • Bangkok ; Daily life ; Inner city ; Large city ; Slum ; Thailand ; Urban geography ; Urban practice ; Urban settlement ; Urban society ; Urban structure
  • metropolis. Adopting insights from anthropology, urban studies and human geography, the A. examines the city's variety from the inner-city slums to the rural-urban fringe. He explains the daily life of the city's inhabitants, middle class suburbanites
  • Everyday life, spatiality and inner city disinvestment in a US city
  • Daily life ; Degradation ; Indiana ; Inner city ; United States ; Urban crisis ; Urban district ; Urban environment ; Urban life ; Urban policy ; Urban society
  • Changes in the economic life of villages in Lucknow District
  • The above study shows that changes in the economic life of the villages are coming about and thus narrowing the gap between urban and rural centres. There are over 43 % villages which have changed and most of these villages are located around
  • Latin American urban development : review of the 1980s and prospects for the 1990s
  • City;Town ; Latin America ; Research ; Urban crisis ; Urban development ; Urban life
  • During the 1980s the weight of Latin Americanist urban research shifted from the theoretical back to the empirical. Publications fit into four broad categories : cities in cris; urban form; reproduction; and production. The problems of living
  • Moving cities : rethinking the materialities of urban geographies
  • Car ; Mobility ; Urban geography ; Urban life ; Urban practice ; Urban sociology ; Urbanity
  • Consumption ; Urban area ; Urban geography ; Urban life ; Urbanism
  • Non-metric conceptual clustering : a new tool for investigating urban quality of life
  • Algorithm ; Bellingham ; Classification ; Cluster analysis ; Factor analysis ; Model ; Quality of life ; United States of America ; Urban district ; Washington State
  • Analysis of urban―rural population dynamics of China : a multiregional life table approach
  • China ; Demography ; Fertility ; Internal migration ; Life expectancy ; Matrix analysis ; Multiregional model ; Population projection ; Rural population ; Urban population
  • Dynamics and prospects of change in the urban environment
  • The urban population at a microscale
  • Environment ; Environmental degradation ; Health ; Mortality ; Quality of life ; Town ; Urban ecology ; Urban environment ; Urban life
  • Fighting for the global catwalk : formalizing public life in Castlefield (Manchester) and diluting public life in el Raval (Barcelona)
  • Barcelona ; Catalonia ; England ; Inner city ; Manchester ; Public space ; Spain ; United Kingdom ; Urban area ; Urban district ; Urban landscape ; Urban renewal ; Urban society
  • Urban circulation and the everyday politics of African urban youth : the case of Douala, Cameroon
  • Africa ; Cameroon ; Daily life ; Douala ; Living conditions ; Mobility ; Social reproduction ; Social space ; Urban life ; Urban practice ; Urban society ; Urban transport ; Way of life ; Young people
  • Reimagining the food system, the economy, and urban life : new urban chicken-keepers in US cities
  • Agrosystem ; Food ; Livestock farming ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban ecology ; Washington State
  • This article examines the food system, the economy, and urban life through new urban chicken-keepers in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington State. It shows that they do it as an explicit effort to promote and enact alternative urban
  • imaginaries. In interviews, participants critique the industrial food system, urban economies and social life, and “think differently” about human-animal relations and productive animals in cities. Through these practices, they establish sustainable backyard
  • agro-ecosystems, build sociability, resist consumerism, and work simultaneously to improve the life and health of animals, humans, and the urban environment.