Application of studies on urban population at a microscale
The urban population at a microscale
Segregation ; Shanty town ; Social development ; Social inequality ; Social structure ; Squatter settlement ; Unemployment ; Urban district ; Urban renewal ; Urbansociety
Budapest ; Economic system ; Hungary ; Social system ; Urban growth ; Urban morphology ; Urban settlement ; Urbansociety
The collapse of the Eastern-European socio-economic structure has resulted in the far-reaching transformation of these societies. This paper discusses the historic dominance of Budapest, the growth of the private sector in the last few years and its
impact on the urban structure of Budapest. The privatisation of housing will also cause changes such as more commercialisation and increases in segregation. - (JS)
Women, urban life, and the city images in Tijuana, Mexico
Baja California ; Gentrification ; Marginality ; Mexico ; Perception of the urban environment ; Public space ; Social group ; Urban life ; Urbansociety ; Woman
group of women has appropriated public spaces within the city for itself ; however, they remain marginal in a patriarchal society. - (SLD)
Changing urban systems in post-communist societies in Central Europe : analysis and prediction
Capital city ; Central Europe ; Deindustrialization ; Economic behaviour ; Europe ; Technological innovation ; Urban area ; Urban growth ; Urban hierarchy ; Urban structure ; Urban system
The paper is concerned with three levels of urban system changes : changes in the intra-urban structure of cities after the collapse of the communist regimes, changes in the national or state urban systems, and changes in the international system
The economic restructuring of cities and the stability of socially mixed neighbourhoods are closely related to gentrification. The debate reveals current shifts in theoretical approaches to urban geography. The complexity, the contextuality
Environmental sanitation in the urban areas of Nigeria
The rapid change from a predominantly rural to an urbansociety has created serious problems in the cities which can only be alleviated by self-help schemes and by a co-ordinated policy of development. (EMS).
Die rhein-mainische Verstädterungsregion. Beiträge der Frankfurter Geographischen Gesellschaft zu ihrer Erfassung. (The urbanized area of the Rhin-Main-Region. Contributions of the Geographical Society of Francfort to their recording)
, the desintegration of urbansociety and ecological conflicts. The paper ends by formulating future scenarios. - (AM)
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
Biogeography ; Cultural landscape ; Fauna ; Town ; Urban ecology ; Urban environment ; Zoogeography
in human-animal relations, that may help bridge gaps between human and physical geography, and propel the study of nature-society relations to the fore in urban geography.
Geographers have begun to consider animals and the urban moral landscape, and assess competing rubrics of planning practice as they relate to animals in the city. Together, these efforts suggest a research agenda for urban geographers interested