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Progress in Irish urban studies
Abstract from the publisher :
Progress in Irish Urban Studies is a working paper series which presents expanded articles based on papers presented to the annual research seminar series and provides a means by which post-graduate researchers and…
Habitat international (Vol. 35, No. 1)
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Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world.…
Complexity theories of cities have come of age
Organisers' description :
Three decades of research have established the field of complexity theories of cities as a dominant approach to cities. Now that the field has come of age, it is time to stop for a moment, look back at what has been…
Researching the spatial and social life of the city : citiesLAB vol. 1
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Our first project comprises a collection of ‘working papers’ established with the aims of both delineating and testing what we refer to as ‘spatial methodologies’ for urban research. This…
Global cities? The Brown Journal of World Affairs (Vol. 11, No. 2)
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From the abstract for Saskia Sassen's introductory article :
Each phase in the long history of the world economy raises specific questions about the particular…
Connecting cities : China
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :
Beijing was the first city of modernity to reach one million - the benchmark to be a member of Metropolis. For the past millenium Chinese cities have ranked in the world's top three.
The importance…
Connecting cities : India
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :
The bustle and chaos associated with Indian cities encompasses only 27% of the country's population. The other 73% of India's population still live in rural areas and villages spread across the…
Connecting cities : Networks
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :
Until recently cities were seen as places. Think of New York skyscrapers, the streets of Paris, the canals of Venice or Sydney Harbour.
Over the last 20 years or so a new reading of cities has…
Connecting cities : City-regions
Contents :
Kathy Pain - City regions and economic development
John Harrison - City-regions and governance
Chris Johnson - Polycentric structuring of Sydney's metropolitan region
Jeffrey Kenworth - Urban transport sustainability
John Black -…
Urban geography plenary lecture : Urban geography (Vol. 30, No. 1)
Contents :
Michael Brown - 2008 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture - Public health as urban politics, urban geography : Venereal blopower in Seattle, 1943-1983
Rachel Slocum - Commentary on "Public health as urban politics, urban geography :…
Megalopolis : The city of the 21st century : World policy journal (Vol. 27, No. 4)
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The future of shrinking cities : Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation
Full title : The future of shrinking cities : Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation in a global context
Abstract from the publisher :
This publication is the outcome of a symposium held at UC Berkeley in February 2007,…
What policies for globalising cities? Rethinking the urban policy agenda
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At a time of increasing globalisation processes, the search for competitiveness in urban regions has become a major political target for both local and central governments. The importance of the cities and their…
Megacities 10 : Towards the megacities solution
Extract from the Introduction by Steef Buijs :
A handful of megacity regions in the advanced and advancing economies, as clusters of large and overlapping daily urban systems are the prime powerhouses and central nodes of the world network economy.…
The London journal (Vol. 34, No. 1)
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The scope of The London Journal is broad, embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past and present, including comparative studies. The Journal is multi-disciplinary and is intended to interest all concerned with…