Housing ; Inner city ; Investment ; Latin America ; Social change ; Town ; Urban development ; Urban district ; Urban policy ; Urban society ; 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.
Townscapes, townshapes, townships : investigating experiences of urban South Africa through Black art
Art ; Cultural geography ; Cultural landscape ; Humanistic geography ; Perception ; South Africa ; Urban environment ; Urban landscape ; Urban life
The humanistic movement is poorly represented in South African geography. Township art offers a wealth of images to extend excursions into the black urban environment into the visual realm and to deepen the local humanistic project in general. Its
evolution from a medium for descriptive social-realism towards an expression of urban consciousness prefigures and commends a more socially relevant geographical investigation of indigenous qualitative material.
Germany ; Housing ; Residential area ; Urban area ; Urban construction ; Urban ecology ; Urban renewal ; Urbanism
Possibilities of securing stock at a high quality level are demonstrated on the basis of two examples which were realised within the framework of the research field Urban ecology and environmentally compatible building in the programme Experimental
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
Architectural legacy ; Colonial city ; Historical geography ; Latin America ; Madrid ; Sixteenth Century ; Spain ; Town ; Town plan ; Town planning ; Urban development ; Urban history ; Urban morphology ; Urban structure ; Urbanism
A catastrophe theory of urbanization: formalization and testing
Catastrophe theory ; Division of labour ; Economic structure ; Labour productivity ; Production fonction ; System dynamics ; Theory ; Urban dynamics ; Urbanization
The dynamic of urbanization can be produced by the transition from a low level stable equilibrium to a high level stable equilibrium corresponding to a cusp catastrophe. An economic theory yielding this type of dynamic is discussed, formalized
Germany ; Migration ; Model ; Single European Market ; Urban development ; Urban planning ; Urban policy ; Urban region ; Urban settlement ; Urban structure
In view of the wide variety of starting positions for urban development in each case (primarily between the urban regions in Western and Eastern Germany), it is clear that, for the foreseable future, it will no longer be possible to orient
the individual specialist policies towards a uniform urban-development model. Unlike in the past, the objective can no longer be gradual adaptation of the individual policies, but must instead be rethinking in all the policy fields relevant to regional planning
Barcelona ; Catalonia ; Spain ; Town ; Urban administration ; Urban area ; Urban economy ; Urban planning ; Urban structure
the Strategic Plan of Barcelona, which tries to consolidate such transformations and which shows the present deregulation of the urban planning management of the city - (AAG)
Manufacturing location in a polycentric urban area: a study in the composition and attractiveness of employment subcenters
Centrality ; Dallas ; Employment ; Industrial location ; Industry ; Second order urban centre ; Texas ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban structure
Cognitive process ; Cognitive space ; Israel ; Model ; Perception ; Perception of the urban environment ; Urban area ; Urban environment
This paper presents, accordingly, a conception of image formation and tests it with a model presenting paths among locational and nonlocational environmental stimuli and an introspective measure of a composite urban image. Changes in the paths due
Cape Province ; Cape Town ; Cultural identity ; Language ; Religion ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Urban district ; Urban society
Cape Town is a suitable experimental ground to focus the methodological and conceptual shift from a national to an urban resolution level in language mapping. Although Cape Town is linguistically one of the least diverse cities in South Africa
, three language groups are clearly apparent within the limited surface area of the urban space. Their respective distribution patterns are relatively segregated within specific neighbourhoods of the city.
Urban cultural strategies and urban regeneration: a case study and critique
Bristol ; Consumption ; Cultural studies ; Local policy ; Social change ; Social class ; United Kingdom ; Urban policy
The A. looks at the broader context within which urban cultural strategies have emerged, looking at changes in national state policies towards the arts, changes in patterns of cultural consumption, local opposition to central government