The paper discusses the relationship between the divergent urbanisation/industrialisation patterns in northern and southern Europe, which results in different forms of urban governance. It considers the distinct urban restructuring and governance
mode in Spain, Greece and Portugal as a causal factor behind the lagging competitiveness of cities in southern Europe. This pattern of heterogeneity is not addressed in the EU urban policies aimed at promoting competitiveness (examples of six cities
' governance responses to the EU URBAN initiative).
England ; Investment ; Manchester ; Real estate development ; Real estate property ; United Kingdom ; Urban development ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal ; Urbanism
Attention is often focused on institutional investors' motives for holding regeneration investments and on how they might be encouraged to put more money into inner-city areas. The paper argues that the impact of such an approach upon urban
regeneration may be limited. Independent developers embrace the challenge presented by fringe locations, mixed uses and the local urban culture, and translate these characteristics into development values. The AA. choose Manchester as an example.
The use of remote sensing and landscape metrics to describe structures and changes in urban land uses
California ; Image analysis ; Land use ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban density ; Urban environment ; Urban landscape
The study introduces a methodology using information on image spatial form to describe urban land-use structures and land-cover changes that result from urban growth. The analysis is based on spatial analysis of land-cover structures mapped from
digitally classified of aerial photographs of the urban region Santa Barbara, California. The results show a useful separation and characterization of three urban land-use types : commercial development, high-density residential, and low-density residential
. Several important structural land-cover features are identified. For two test areas in the region, changes in the urban spatial land-use structure can be described and quantified with landscape metrics.
From apartheid apologism to post-apartheid neo-liberalism paragigm shifts in South Africa urban geography
Land ; Research ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Urban geography ; Urban planning ; Urban society
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
Urban form, road network type, and mode choice for frequently conducted activities : a multilevel analysis using quasi-experimental design data
Mode choice ; Netherlands (The) ; Transport network ; Urban district ; Urban migration ; Urban morphology ; Urban transport
In this study, the AA. adopt the principles of quasi-experimental design to collect the data, which are examined with a multilevel model in the cities of Ranstad Holland. The results indicate that urban form and network type have only a modest
China's changing urban governance in the transition towards a more market-oriented economy
China ; Economic restructuring ; Governance ; Local authority ; Local government ; Social policy ; Town ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban society
The article aims to analyse the forces released both inside and outside the formal socialist state system and the impacts on phenomenal restructuring of urban governance, especially at local levels. Marketisation has created new elements beyond
the reach of state-work units. Territorial organisations such as the municipality, urban districts and residents's committees are reinvented and consolidated to restore a governable society.
Bangkok ; Daily life ; Inner city ; Large city ; Slum ; Thailand ; Urban geography ; Urban practice ; Urban settlement ; Urban society ; 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
Biogeography ; Cultural landscape ; Fauna ; Town ; Urban ecology ; Urban environment ; Zoogeography
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
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.
British urban policy since 1997 : change and continuity
Great Britain ; Housing policy ; Local government ; Partnership ; Redevelopment ; United Kingdom ; Urban development ; Urban district ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal
The paper sets out the evolution of British urban policy since the Urban White Paper of 1977 with particular reference to the changes that have taken place under the Labour government after 1997. It considers the experience of the Urban Development
Against all odds : poor people jumping scales and the genesis of an urban policy in Flanders, Belgium
Belgium ; Competitiveness ; Flanders ; Governance ; Housing policy ; State control ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal
The AA. use a critical approach to explain the emergence of an urban policy in Flanders. In the case of urban policy in Flanders, the processes of scalar reconfiguration come down to scale-jumping by actors concerned with the fate of disadvantaged
Amiens ; France ; Large city ; Perception of the urban environment ; Picardie ; Urban change ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban function ; Urban structure
Microsimulation of neighborhood evacuations in the urban-wildland interface
Fire ; Risk ; Security ; Simulation ; Spatial choice ; Urban district ; Urban traffic ; Urban transport
The AA. present a method for using microscopic traffic simulation to develop and test neighborhood evacuation plans in the urban-wildland interface. The method allows an analyst to map the subneighborhood variation in household evacuation travel
Cardiff ; Gentrification ; Redevelopment ; United Kingdom ; Urban development ; Urban district ; Urban ecology ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal ; Wales
for a transformation of urban ecological politics. The choosen case study is the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay. The analysis considers why radical ecological politics failed to develop and whether the contradictions inherent in the regeneration strategy might yet