Polarities of structure and change in urban systems : a Canadian example
Urban systems and the diversity of urban development
Canada ; Large city ; Urban change ; Urban function ; Urban growth ; Urban hierarchy ; Urban system
The paper examines some of the contradictory assertions in the research literature regarding the on-going reorganization of urban systems through a detailed empirical analysis of the changing properties of the Canadian urban system. The analysis
begins with a conceptual framework that recognizes alternative logics and trajectories of change in urban systems. The paper demonstrates the diversity and rapidity of change, and the indeterminant and contradictory nature of many of the relationships
Planning doctrine and post-industrial urban development: the Amsterdam experience
Urban systems and the diversity of urban development
Amsterdam ; Centrality ; Netherlands (The) ; Urban district ; Urban function ; Urban planning ; Urban population ; Urban structure
The planners of the Amsterdam General Extension Plan (1935) developed a doctrine that covers three levels of functions and activities (a regional centre, a monocentric urban form, homogeneous neighbourhood communities around a centre). Since
the early 1970s Amsterdam has become an international centre, has developed into a polycentric urban region and has been acquiring ethnically mixed quarters. So in Amsterdam the planning doctrine was not particularly successful.
Between process and individuation : translating metaphors and narratives of urban space
Daily life ; Theory ; Urban area ; Urban life ; Urban sociology
The A. wants to explore more closely Lefebvre's injunction for a careful examination of the relationship between space, language and politics. He wants to examine the metaphors used by scholars theorizing urban space and everyday urban life
. Conceptual and political problems are associated with the adoption of various metaphors about urban space.
Restucturing urban space and local communities in Tokyo : on the applicability of the theories of Castells and Harvey
Honshu ; Japan ; Tokyo ; Urban area ; Urban structure ; Urban theory
This paper attempts to review the theoretical framework of the urban restructuring process proposed by M. Castelles and D. Harvey, and to examine the effectiveness of their western theories through field survey of restructuring urban space and local
Amsterdam ; Belgium ; Brussels ; Netherlands (The) ; Property right ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban dynamics ; Urban growth ; Urban region
The central aim of this study is to understand the long-term urban trajectories of the Brussels and Amsterdam urban regions in terms of different spatial organizations of property rights. After a consideration of international comparative urban
research, the authors analyse the trajectories of the urban regions of Brussels and Amsterdam systematically during one and a half century. - (AGD)
The system of Korean cities based on the inter-urban bus services
Accessibility ; South Korea ; Urban system ; Urban transport
This paper aims to analyze the system of Korean cities based on the accessibility of various cities by using the index of the inter-urban bus services. - (KA)
Towards a property market paradigm of urban change
Barcelona ; Berlin ; Birmingham ; Economic restructuring ; Europe ; Hamburg ; Madrid ; Milano ; Real estate market ; Redevelopment ; Town ; Urban change ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban environment ; Urban function
be expected to play an important part in shaping urban growth and development outcomes. The AA. propose a property market paradigm of urban change and examine its relevance in the context of six major European urban regions. This approach can provide a more
holistic understanding of contemporary urban change than that offered by conventional analysis.
1997
[b1] Dep. of Economics, Faculty of Urban and Regional Studies, Univ., Reading, Royaume-Uni
Urban economic participation and survival strategies in Ghana : 1960-1984
Economic sector ; Employment ; Ghana ; Living standard ; Participation ; Urban development ; Urban economy
Changes in Ghana's post-independence economy have influenced urban participation. The AA. identify survival strategies adopted by urban residents to combat changes in national economy, and investigate spatio-temporal variations in urban
participation. Explanation for spatial variations are traced to the context of urban growth and development in different parts of the country. Planning implications for the economic health of towns in the country and their residents are discussed.
Les villes secondaires d'Afrique noire (1970-1997)
Africa ; Bibliography ; Black Africa ; Medium-sized town ; Regional development ; Rural-urban relations ; Second order urban centre ; Town ; Urban administration ; Urban function ; Urban morphology ; Urban planning ; Urban population
Farm laborers and the new urban politics : bridging the urban-rural divide
Colorado ; Farm ; Farmer ; Local policy ; Public service ; Rural-urban relations ; Seasonal work ; United States of America ; Urban fringe ; Urban policy
The provision of services to farm labor is examined as an extension of the new urban politics. Concern for farm workers on the urban-rural fringe (example of Boulder County) enhances understandings of local politics in three ways. It draws attention
urban-rural dichotomies and their role in shaping local politics.
Poetry and pass laws : humanistic geography in urban South Africa
Ethnic community ; Ethnography ; Gauteng ; Humanistic geography ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Town ; Urban life
Humanism offers geographers the opportunity to move away from objective study towards the contemplation of emotion and the individual. The value of Soweto poetry in understanding black urban experience is to be found in the starkly realistic
portrayal of apartheid life in urban South Africa. - (AJC)
Economic impact ; Florida ; Local labour market ; Segregation ; Tourism ; United States of America ; Urban attraction ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban park ; Urban policy ; Urban society ; Urban structure
Themed built environments envelop highly selective communities isolated from others, socially and spatially. The A. argues that these sociospatial results of Disneyesque urban development do not bode well for urban social relations. He documents
The dynamics of Nordic urban systems during the 1980s
Urban systems and the diversity of urban development
Centrality ; Europe ; Northern Europe ; Service ; System dynamics ; Typology ; Urban change ; Urban function ; Urban growth ; Urban hierarchy ; Urban system