Urbanmunicipalities versus rural municipalities - selected aspects of quality of life in Slovakia
element with the negative impact on the great differences in quality of life between inhabitants of urban and rural municipalities. Urbanmunicipalities represent the peripheral ones. The aim of this study is to describe, analyse, and compare
the population structures and material level of life quality in urban and rural municipalities aggregated into eight administrative regions. Regional aggregation allows us to identify and then to explain the relevant regional differences in Slovakia according
to selected aspects of life quality in urban and rural municipalities. - (BJ)
Quantitative analysis of population change in recent Japanese municipalities
Industry ; Japan ; Population growth ; Quality of life ; Quantitative analysis ; Urban population
a municipality that has a better environment of modern urban life. It is noticeable that in the satellite city, « density of manufacturing factory » is becoming an influential factor for population growth. And many small population municipalities are still
This paper aims to find what factors will affect the population change in recent Japanese municipalities. The result implies that important factors are different in population size and economic function through the course of time. Man did not select
The relationship between wider-area municipal spheres and regional urban systems in Japan
In this paper the writer tries to analyze urban tributary areas and daily city regions of central cities according to the analysis of connectivity between central cities and their surrounding municipalities by using commuting data among
municipalities (1985 Census). Instead of the concept of a city region the writer uses the concepts of a daily city region corresponding to the commuting areas of a central city and an urban tributary area consisting of a wider area. As shown in another paper
(Morikawa, 1990), a municipality qualifies as a central city if the workers of at least 3,000 persons are engaged in sales and service job of the city. The writer examined the spatial relationships between WAMSs (wider-area municipal spheres) and urban
Inter-community cooperation ; Legislation ; Local government unit ; Network ; Poland ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban planning ; Warsaw
is not an easy task. It creates problems especially within functional urban areas. In this paper, the issue of cooperation among municipalities from the Warsaw Metropolitan Area (WMA) is addressed using the perspective of networking and formulation of common
Since 1990, Polish municipalities have exercised planning power in terms of deciding on the ways of their economic and spatial development. Results of dynamic and sometimes uncontrolled, spontaneous development processes cross the borders
of municipalities bringing problems, that can not be addressed, and solved by one municipality. Polish legislation provides legal basis for cooperation of municipalities. However, experience of the last several years proves that cooperation among municipalities
Coordination of urban economic development policies in the Netherlands in The urban agglomeration as a political arena.
This article examines whether a province can achieve consensus among municipalities that usually practice conflict avoidance. This occurs in exceptional circumstances, related to the fact that municipalities acquire resources for economic
La implantación del régimen municipal en Patagones
L'implantation du régime municipal à Patagones
Administration ; Administrative structure ; Argentina ; Local administration ; Patagonia ; Town ; Urban development ; Urban function ; Urban history ; Urban site
Regional difference in distance-decay parameters of a doubly-constrained gravity model : a case of inter-municipal migration in twenty-eight prefectures in Japan
Distance ; Gravity model ; Japan ; Residential mobility ; Spatial interaction ; Urban density ; Urban migration ; Urbanization
which are high-densely inhabited, which suggests, in a sense, that urbanization has reached an advanced stage, where municipalities are well connected, where industrial locations have recently become stagnant and where large migratory outflows from
Using a data set of the 1985 inter-municipal migration in Japan, the model provides reasonably good representation of migratory flows for all the prefectures. Il is concluded that the distance-decay parameter is more negative in the prefectures
The costs of disposal and recycling : an application to Italian municipal solid waste services
Economies of scale ; Italy ; Model ; Municipality ; Recycling ; Urban economy ; Waste
This paper investigates the costs of disposal and recycling through an application to Italian municipal solid waste services. As far as the size of the municipality increases, scope economies rise up to 20%, but they are accompanied by overall
Municipal annexation and the selective underbounding of colonias in Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley
Community ; Informality ; Municipality ; Poverty ; Settlement ; Social geography ; Texas ; United States of America ; Urban policy
This article project explores the prevalence of the municipal underbounding of colonias in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) of Texas. It begins with a description of regional demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, municipal growth
Neighbourhoods and municipalities as contextual opportunities for interethnic contact
Behaviour ; Germans ; Germany ; Household ; Municipality ; Neighbourhood ; Neighbourhood effect ; Public space ; Social geography ; Urban area
This article investigates consequences of spatial contexts (neighbourhood and municipality levels) on interethnic contact from a native’s perspective using a German nation-wide dataset. Ethnic concentration is the strongest contextual predictor
for all kinds of interethnic contact. Physical contact opportunities in the immediate neighbourhood fos-ter interethnic contact in the neighbourhood only, while municipality size mostly diminishes inter-ethnic contact.
Commuting ; Distance ; Labour migration ; Polycentrism ; Region ; Urban dynamics
The article analyses the spatial pattern of occupational commuting in the nine regions. Only the commuters liable to pay social security contributions who cross a municipal boundary on their way to work but who remain within the region were included
in the survey. The starting point of the analysis is the muniipal system of the regions which is classified according to cental place categories. Corresponding to their central place statuts the municipalities are allocated to one of four municipal classes
. The commuter flows between the municipal classes are then analysed for each region and number of commuters is determined who commute upwards or downwords in the hierarchy of central places within a municipal class. Additionally the average commuting distances
Opportunities and challenges of conversion in urban construction
Army ; Germany ; Infrastructure ; Land use ; Restructuring process ; Urban construction ; Urban planning ; Urban traffic ; Urbanism
required housing, trade estates additions to the infrastructure, reorganization of trafffic development, etc.. The necessary re-utilization of this land is defined as conversion for urban construction and poses a totally new task in municipal planning
The reduction of troops stationed in Germany by more than 50% was accompanied by the vacation of land that has been reserved for military purposes. Part of this land is situated inside municipal development areas, so that it provides urgently
The present aspect of urbanization and structural change of urban systems in Japan
Counterurbanization ; Japan ; Urban growth ; Urban system ; Urbanization ; Working population
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the present aspect and recent structural change of Japanese urban systems. To analyse this point, the A. used the sales and service workers of 1985. He classified municipalities with more than 3,000