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.
Contents :
Editorial : City profiles - A. Kirby Singapore’s changing spaces - Emily Y.X. Soh, Belinda Yuen Evaluation of plan implementation in the transitional China: A case of Guangzhou city master plan - Li Tian, Tiyan Shen Culture and creativity: A case study from the West of Ireland - Patrick Collins, Frances Fahy Exploring the underlying dimensions of elements affecting traffic congestion relief impact of transit - Md. Aftabuzzaman, Graham Currie, Majid Sarvi Situating Fortaleza: Urban space and uneven development in northeastern Brazil - Jeff Garmany Natural disaster risk in Asian megacities: A case for risk pooling? - Stefan Hochrainer, Reinhard Mechler More than a master plan: Amman 2025 - Robert A. Beauregard, Andrea Marpillero-Colomina Transit-oriented development in a high-density city: Identifying its association with transit ridership in Seoul, Korea - Hyungun Sung, Ju-Taek Oh Safety and sustainability in a city in transition: The case of Vilnius, Lithuania - Vânia Ceccato, Nijole Lukyte Neighborhood milieu in the cultural economy of city development: Berlin’s Helmholtzplatz and Soldiner in the German “Social City” program - Kadri Semm The crisis of cultural identity in rehabilitating historic Beirut-downtown - Tarek Saad Ragab Urumqi - Wen Dong, Xiaolei Zhang
Andrew Kirby is Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University West and an Editor of Cities.