Plant closures in urban areas : towards a local policy response
Decision ; Economic environment ; England ; Factory closure ; Firm strategy ; Industrial location ; Local policy ; Sheffield ; United Kingdom ; Urban economy
is drawn between inter-urban selective closures and intra-urban selective closures. Local policies may be able to influence plants at risk of selective closure.
High technology location and the urban areas of Great Britain : developments in the 1980s
Economic restructuring ; Employment ; Great Britain ; High-tech industry ; Regional disparities ; Specialization ; Technology ; United Kingdom ; Urban economy
New towns appear more successful than other urban areas in attracting high technology, and this continued to be the case during the 1980s. There is evidence of a relative increase of high technology activity in smaller urban areas since 1981
Netherlands (The) ; Residential mobility ; Suburbanization ; Urban development ; Urban growth ; Urban population ; Urbanization
The central question of this study is whether the changes in distribution of the population indicate a break in the trend of the process of urbanization in the Netherlands, that is to say a transition from suburbanisation to re-urbanisation
Density gradient ; Housing ; Land use ; Population growth ; Riyadh ; Saudi Arabia ; Urban area ; Urban density ; Urban development ; Urban population ; Urban structure
Urban planning concepts and projects to improve the living situation of elderly persons
Elderly people ; Germany ; Housing ; Living conditions ; Population ; Urban planning ; Urbanism
In the field of research elderly persons and their housing district and in the context of experimental housing and urban planning, urban planning strategies in the interest of elderly persons are being examined using the example of 21 plan models
Density gradient ; New York City ; Periurban development ; Rural-urban relations ; Rurbanization ; Suburban agriculture ; Suburbanization ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban fringe ; Urban growth ; Urban history ; Urbanization
Brazil ; Rio de Janeiro ; Segregation ; São Paulo ; Town ; Town planning ; Urban development ; Urban growth ; Urban history ; Urban model ; Urban morphology ; Urban society ; Urbanization
The effect of distance on intra-urban social movements in the metropolitan region of Lagos, Nigeria
Commuting ; Cost-benefit analysis ; Lagos ; Nigeria ; Social interaction ; Spatial interaction ; Urban area ; Urban social movement ; Urban society ; Urban structure ; Urban transport
The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography. Recycling urban systems and metropolitan areas : a geographical agenda for the 1990s and beyond
Canada ; City;Town ; Demographic cycle ; Economic restructuring ; Metropolitan area ; North America ; Research ; United States ; Urban change ; Urban development ; Urban environment ; Urban structure ; Urban system