Rapid growth of economy in China pushed the process of urbanization. With urban economic activities making up an increasing share of GDP, productivity of urban economy influences economic growth. Four megalopolises have emerged, and their GDP
exceeds 35% of the country's total. The rapid urbanization also resulted in a series of problems on development and environment.
European urban sprawl : sustainability, cultures of (anti)urbanism and hybrid cityscapes
Europe ; Sustainable development ; Urban geography ; Urban sprawl
This paper has its origins in a comparative research project examining aspects of urban sprawl in Europe undertaken within the 5.FP EU. The project Urban Sprawl : European Patterns, Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Development (URBS PANDENS
EVK4-CT- 2001-00052) sought to understand recent trends in urban sprawl in a number of case study urban regions and to advise the European Commission on policy development with regard to the control, management and amélioration of the effects of urban
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.
Division of labour ; Social structure ; Social theory ; Town ; Urban district ; Urban policy ; Urban structure ; Urban theory
Réflexions de l'A. centrées sur un article de K. Cox publié en 1991 dans la revue Journal of Urban Affairs: questions of abstraction in studies in the new urban politics.
Policies and prospects of urban redevelopment in Poland
City;Town ; Development ; Economic crisis ; Poland ; Prospective study ; Urban migration ; Urban policy ; Urban system ; Urbanization
The mutual relations between the overall economic development and urbanization processes are strong obvious. In the Polish case the three key terms describe these relations at the turn of the centuries : lagging urbanization, economic crisis
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
Demographic structure ; Land use ; Location ; Theory ; Urban area ; Urban structure
This paper focuses on the urban fabric, “the hardware” of an urban system. It discusses how to examine the urban fabric in terms of form, age and typical structures, technical and non-technical surface, land use, spatial location, material
composition, and consumption of resources. The article describes some challenges and the key issues of urban analyses. - (IfL)
China ; Modernity ; Research technique ; Urban society ; Urbanism ; Urbanization
For many citizens, urbanism remains a serious problem in China. There is a lack of theoretic study to personal urbanism. The article proposes that the ancient research of urbanism is the research of urbanism of cities. Several research methods
are offered. Some thoughts are proposed about the promotion of personal urbanism.
Czechoslovakia ; Housing ; Industry ; Prague ; Transport ; Urban development ; Urban geography
An urban geographical review about the historical development, urban patterns, housing, industry, transport management and future of the capital of Czech Republic. - (MS)
Recent developments in community participation in urban planning in the United States in New trends in urban planning. Studies in housing, urban design and planning.