The role of planners and planning in shaping urban space
South Africa ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban planning
The role of planning and planners in shaping urban space has been sharply contested in recent years. While planners are not the driving force determining urban development in South Africa, they play a significant role in shaping urban space. - (AJC)
The sub-discipline of urban politics has been constructed in opposition to a traditional version of institutional theory. Attention has shifted towards the broader influences on local decision-making and to the growing fragmentation of government
and the rise of partnerships. The article argues that recent developments call for a reformulated theory of the institutional constraints which urban political processes operate.
Urbanization and adjustment of ephemeral stream channels
Arid area ; Arizona ; Channel geometry ; Drainage network ; Impact ; Rainstorm ; Stream ; United States of America ; Urbanization
This paper examines the case of Fountain Hills, a residential area near Phoenix, Arizona, as an example of urban impacts on a representative ephemeral channel in a dryland environment. Three specific questions are addressed : how has urbanization
affected stream channels in Fountain hills ? Are stream channel adjustments similar to those found in urbanized humid temperate environments ? Do particular management implications arise in the case of dryland urban river channels ?
Urban renewal in East African port cities : Mombasa's Old Town waterfront
Harbour ; Kenya ; Redevelopment ; Site preservation ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban morphology ; Urban renewal
waterfront redevelopment is a problematic element in the conservation of the historic urban core, and relates local issues to wider policies, relevant literature and experience elsewhere.
A model of urban growth with endogeneous suburban production centers
Industrial development ; Land ; Land rent ; Model ; Second order urban centre ; Suburbanization ; Transport cost ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban growth ; Urban model
Calibration of cellular automata by using neural networks for the simulation of complex urban systems
Calibration ; Geographical information system ; Neural network ; Probability ; Simulation ; Spatial dynamics ; Urban development ; Urban network ; Urban system
GIS-based mapping of air-directing tracks relevant to the urban climate.
Cartographic technique ; Cartography ; Geographical information system ; Urban climate
The paper deals with the following subjects : 1. Air-directing tracks relevant to the urban climate - definitions 2. Requirements concerning the air-directing tracks relevant to the urban climate 3. Realization of the GIS-based mapping-technique
Nature's workshop industry and urban expansion in southern California, 1900-1950
California ; Industrial district ; Industry ; Los Angeles ; Suburbs ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urban growth ; Urban history ; Urban planning
Behaviour ; Criminality ; Ethnic group ; Papua New Guinea ; Social change ; Squatter ; Urban administration ; Urban growth ; Urbanization ; Violence
In Papua New Guinea, colonial control of urban populations has been replicated in contemporary times, often in more draconian form. Eviction of urban settlers have been tied to issues of crime and urban respectability, and lingering perceptions
Land markets in the Harris-Todaro model : a new factor equilibrating rural-urban migration
Developing countries ; Land ; Land market ; Land rent ; Rural outmigration ; Third World ; Urban immigration ; Urbanization ; Utility fonction
Land rent escalation, which tends to limit rural-urban migration, provides an important additional force that may help determine city sizes in developing countries. The paper provides an alternative to this analysis by assuming that urban residents
Area of attraction ; Belgium ; Brussels ; Spatial structure ; Town ; Transport network ; Urban agglomeration ; Urban life ; Urban region ; Urban transport
Image analysis ; Land use ; Small town ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urban sprawl ; Urbanization ; Wisconsin
three satellite images (1984, 1992, 2001) to assess the sprawl in the La Crosse, Wisconsin metro area. Whereas the image reveal a 205% increase in urban land over the study period, US Census Bureau data indicates a 18% population increase. She concludes
A. begins be discussing the perceptions of urban sprawl and notes that it is also a problem for small cities (50,000 population and less). Then she reviews the definitions of sprawl, quantitative measures, and qualitative descriptors. She then uses