Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy.
The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.
Topics covered include: Housing, homelessness and health; urban management; public-private sector cooperation; Third World development and planning problems; urban regeneration; urban conservation and design; technological innovation and urban planning; urban transportation.
Contents :
Living on the ashes: Collective representations of Polish–Jewish history among people living in the former Warsaw Ghetto area - Adrian Wójcik, Michał Bilewicz, Maria Lewicka Urban neighbourhood communities organised on-line – A new form of self-organisation in the Polish city? - Jacek Kotus, Bartosz Hławka The rhetoric of adaptive reuse or reality of demolition: Views from the field - Peter A. Bullen, Peter E.D. Love What attracts and retains knowledge workers/students: The quality of place or career opportunities? The cases of Montreal and Ottawa - Sebastien Darchen, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay Sustainable urban development in historical areas using the tourist trail approach: A case study of the Cultural Heritage and Urban Development (CHUD) project in Saida, Lebanon - Khalid S. Al-hagla Planning, competitiveness and sprawl in the Mediterranean city: The case of Athens - I. Chorianopoulos, T. Pagonis, S. Koukoulas, S. Drymoniti Reading urban spaces by the space-syntax method: A proposal for the South Haliç Region - Deniz Erinsel Önder, Yıldırım Gigi High-rise Dubai urban entrepreneurialism and the technology of symbolic power - Michele Acuto Putrajaya: Malaysia’s new federal administrative capital - Sarah Moser
