, infrastructures, patrimoine urbain, forme urbaine, competativeness, compétivité, renouvellement urbain, quartiers illégaux, identité, reconstruction, service public, privatisation, ville durable, gated communities, banlieue, art, Lisbon, Lisbonne
Description
Abstract from the publisher :
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.
Each issue also features a profile of a major city. Coverage includes a brief description of the city's historical development, an account of contemporary conditions, problems or issues, and a critical review of recent or current policy, planning or management responses.
Contents :
Are there useful yardsticks of population size and income level for building metro systems? Some worldwide evidence - Becky P.Y. Loo, Amy H.T. Cheng Measuring the urban competitiveness of Chinese cities in 2000 - Yihong Jiang, Jianfa Shen Traces on the palimpsest: Heritage and the urban forms of Athens and Alexandria - Luna Khirfan How suitable is LR for renewal of inner city areas? An analysis for Turkey - Sevkiye Sence Turk, Willem K. Korthals Altes The “Xochimilco model” for managing irregular settlements in conservation land in Mexico City - Jill Wigle Urban identity policies in Berlin: From critical reconstruction to reconstructing the Wall - Alexander Tölle Factors generating boardings at Metro stations in the Seoul metropolitan area - Keemin Sohn, Hyunjin Shim Is time really important for research into contracting out public services in cities? Evidence for urban water management in Southern Spain - Jorge Guardiola, Francisco González-Gómez, Miguel A. García-Rubio Environmental, social and economic information management for the evaluation of sustainability in urban areas: A system of indicators for Thessaloniki, Greece - Nicolas Moussiopoulos, Charisios Achillas, Christos Vlachokostas, Dimitra Spyridi, Konstantinos Nikolaou Gated and packaged suburbia: Packaging and branding Chinese suburban residential development - Fulong Wu Design review in a post-colonial city: The Delhi Urban Art Commission - Sandeep Kumar Agrawal City Profile : Lisbon - Vítor Oliveira, Paulo Pinho
