Third World cities: sustainable urban development, 1
Democracy ; Living standard ; Sustainable development ; Third World ; Town ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban environment ; Urbansociety ; Urbanization
Civil society and urban food insecurity : analyzing the roles of local food organizations in Johannesburg
Civil society ; Community ; Food ; Food security ; Gauteng ; Johannesburg ; Poverty ; Social geography ; Social organization ; South Africa ; Urban social movement
This paper analyzes the landscape of Johannesburg’s Food security civil society organizations (FSCSOs). Results indicate that while they fulfill many important roles, an uneven distribution of resources, institutional instability
Network cities: creative urban agglomerations for the 21st century
Cities, enterprises and society at the eve of the 21st century
Central places ; Centrality ; Japan ; Netherlands (The) ; Randstad ; Rank-size distribution ; Urban dynamics ; Urban hierarchy ; Urban network ; Urban theory
The global economy is nurturing an innovative class of polycentric urban configurations. A network city evolves when two or more previously independent cities, potentially complementary in function, strive to cooperate and achieve significant scope
Citizenship, partnership, and the popular restructuring of U.K. urban space
Citizenship ; Ideology ; Liberalism ; Local development ; Local government ; Partnership ; Political power ; Standard of living ; United Kingdom ; Urban area ; Urban policy ; Urbansociety
The pursuit of market-dominated urban policies has marginalized large sections of the population who have remained untouched by the benefits of national economic growth. The concepts of citizenship and partnership are central to the doctrine
of Thatcherism. The A. examines the nature of these concepts in the context of contemporary urban development.
Housing ; Inner city ; Investment ; Latin America ; Social change ; Town ; Urban development ; Urban district ; Urban policy ; Urbansociety ; Urban structure ; Urbanization
activities. Severe limitations have been imposed on the extent of large-scale urban redevelopment and reinvestment. Cultural and aesthetic influences also militate against a demand from the middle and upper income groups to gentrify the inner city.
From apartheid apologism to post-apartheid neo-liberalism paragigm shifts in South Africa urban geography
Land ; Research ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Urban geography ; Urban planning ; Urbansociety
This paper presents an overview and review of trends in South African urban geography. The paper reveals that until recently, the Eurocentric dominance was very evident in urban geography. The various stages from the apartheid era to the present
Bangkok ; Daily life ; Inner city ; Large city ; Slum ; Thailand ; Urban geography ; Urban practice ; Urban settlement ; Urbansociety ; 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
Accessibility ; Education ; Hungary ; Information ; Jazygia region ; Microregion ; Regional development ; Rural history ; Rural society ; Rural-urban relations
The paper summarizes some crucial elements of the Hungarian Information Society Strategy (HISS 2003), namely the information society of the Jazygia micro region. The available data suggest that the impact of an historical rural structure and rural
society on the human and municipal adaptation of information society can be well examined. It is admitted that the accessibility is strongly connected to education and to the fact that numbers of jobs do not require competence in digital or information