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Few researchers have studied world cities from the perspective of sustainable development. This paper argues that in this era of globalization cities should aspire to be great cities, rather than just world cities. Great cities are places with an enlightened mode of governance; where technological and economic advancement sustain global and local development, thereby enriching socio-economic, human,...
This paper illustrates the initiatives undertaken in Singapore to improve and enhance the public transport system. Being a small city-state, with limited land supply, encouraging the use of public transport and restraining car ownership and usage seems to be an obvious choice in managing the city-state's transport problems. Policy covers not only improvements of the public modes but also enhancement...
Data from the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Report and the World Bank's World Development Report are employed to test the hypothesis of a positive link between urbanization and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Level of urbanization is defined as the percentage of a country's population in cities with at least 20,000 inhabitants. Development is operationalized in...
Given Girne's limited growth potential, tourism is its most important activity Consequently, growth has both negative and positive impacts upon the environment and its values. It is therefore important that the tourism industry remains positive and sustainable in every way it interacts with the environment. For this to happen, a strategy that takes into consideration all related aspects has to be...
Are South African cities to small? Given the history of South Africa's spatial development, one might expect that South African cities might be under-sized, and not over-sized as in many other developing countries. It is found that the rank-size distribution explains the sizes of South Africa's cities but that Zipf's Law does not hold for the country's cities. The so-called q-coefficient was found...
The accessibility of low-income workers in Hong Kong is a function of dynamic economic growth, compact city structure and efficient operation of public transport. Although 42 per cent of the Hong Kong population lives in the new towns, and among them, four in 10 have to travel to work in the urban areas where service jobs are available, the influence of spatial mismatch between jobs and housing on...
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