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
A framework for speculating about future urban growth patterns in the US
Industrial employment ; Residential choice ; Residential location ; Second order urban centre ; Suburbanization ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban growth
Urban patterns are seen as being shaped by certain entities, called locators, making location choices. The A. gives special attention to the issue of the relative accessibility of alternative places. Although the major focus is on city versus suburb
Changing influences on the development of the European Community's major urban regions between 1971 and 1988
City;Town ; EEC ; Economic integration ; Europe ; Indicator ; Living standard ; Urban crisis ; Urban development ; Urban region ; Welfare
The paper refines a measure of urban problems developed in previous publications and argues that it approximates to a measure of per capita welfare. It then shows that the change in this measure for the whole period 1971-88 and for three subperiods
, can be related to generic forces for change within the EC, particularly the effects on local economies of the process of European integration, and to the structural characteristics of urban regions and those of the wider regions in which
The urban political arena. Geographies of public administration
Administration ; Australia ; Congress ; France ; Large city ; Political geography ; Public sector ; United Kingdom ; United States ; Urban administration ; Urban geography ; Urban planning ; Urban region ; Urban social movement
of metropolitan regions (Columbus, Ohio); metropolitan government in Australia (Perth); metropolitan reform (Christchurch); the socio-spatial fragmentation of the Paris region; electoral reform proposals (Israel); urban social movements (Amsterdam
); decentralisation processes (UK); planning in the Paris region; ecological constraints and spatial policy (Amsterdam) and the political system influencing the formation of urban regions (Amsterdam and Brussels). - (AGD)
Housing ; Housing market ; Local government ; Project ; Scotland ; United Kingdom ; Urban planning ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal
Urban problems in Scotland share many of the features that are common elsewhere in the UK and originate from similar causes. But there are some important differences in the scale and nature of the problems and quite distinctive institutional
Algeria ; Decentralization ; Emigration ; Population distribution ; Rural outmigration ; Urban policy ; Urban population ; Urbanization
This paper includes the following chapters : 1. Size and growth of urban populations. 2. Factors influencing population redistribution (Emigration, Regroupment centres and forbidden zones, Rural exodus, Decentralisation policy).―(Equipe EG)
Antwerp : a modern city with a significant historic heritage in Old trends and new impulses in Europe's urban affairs.
The A. discusses recent planning and urban renewal policies in Antwerp within the contexts of the city's extensive cultural heritage and its historic evolution. Special attention is given to the architectural and urban design achievements