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Outside of central Tokyo, too little has been written about Japanese municipalities regardless of their economic performance or problems. One area that currently deserves greater attention is the recently amalgamated City of Saitama, the area that experienced the largest employment increase of any municipality in Japan (42,783) during Japan’s lost decade. What factors allowed it to counteract prevailing...
Recent technological developments have produced a range of sophisticated and readily available digital tracking technologies, of which the best known is the global positioning system (GPS). Yet, despite this remarkable surge in technology, researchers in the field of urban studies have failed to take full advantage of what these relatively new systems have to offer. Tracking technologies are able...
This paper explores the relations between sport and urban development. In particular, it examines how Singapore, a city for business, is turning towards sports development and mega events to reinforce place promotion. Analysis is offered of the city’s hosting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in 2005 as an illustration of the challenges and opportunities that major sport-related...
This article examines efforts in the US near the end of the 20th century at establishing community development partnerships (CDPs) that aggregate resources from private, philanthropic, public and non-profit institutions to build capacity and revitalize neighborhoods through community development corporations (CDCs). In order to assess CDP impact on CDCs, capacity is divided into five components: resource,...
Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal and forms the core of the nation’s most populous urban region. The city has been important economically, administratively, and politically for hundreds of years. With its ancient monuments scattered around, Kathmandu is an emerging city where several plans and concepts have been implemented for its development. Like many cities of the developing world, it has been...
Since 2002, the urban renewal of the seaside promenade of Manila has become an unexpected magnet of activity in this 430-year old city. As one of the projects of Mayor Lito Atienza’s flagship program, Buhayin ang Maynila (Revitalize Manila), the transformation of what is now popularly called The Baywalk from a dark and neglected zone to a brightly-lit concourse has turned out to be the only remaining...
In urban India, slum policies have become increasingly reliant on the market and on local ‘self-help’ agencies, a trend in step with the neoliberal turn across the developing world. The emphasis on local solutions is particularly interesting because the challenge of urban slums is now widely acknowledged to be one of global proportions. This paper examines the impact of this changing institutional...
The Baltic city of Gdańsk is world famous, having repeatedly played an important role in history: it was one of the dominant members of the Hanseatic League, it was the place where the first shots of the Second World War were fired and, as the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, it became an icon of resistance against communist rule east of the Iron Curtain. Today, like other large Polish cities,...
This paper explores knowledge city and knowledge-based urban development concepts, discusses the principles of a knowledge city, and portrays its distinguishing characteristics and processes. It analyses Melbourne’s knowledge-based urban development experience by scrutinising its initiatives on culture, science, technology and innovation, and policies in urban, economic and social development. The...
Between 2000 and 2030, cities in developing countries will double their population from 2 to 4 billion and at least triple their total built-up area. This essay assesses the state of preparedness for the projected urban expansion. The available anecdotal evidence suggests that areas needed for expansion are typically underestimated, that enforcement of land use regulations is relatively weak and cannot...
Based on a large-scale household survey conducted in Nanjing in 2005, this study aims to provide a better understanding of poverty incidence in a contemporary Chinese city, as well as poverty concentration in different social groups. This study reveals a much higher and more realistic poverty incidence among working urban residents, unemployed/laid-off urban residents and rural migrants than the official...
In 2005 Mexico City had just under 20 million inhabitants in the whole metropolitan area. Although over the last 20 years the city has registered a slower population growth, its urban area continues to expand. The particular problem with the expansion to the south is that urbanization is invading a so-called Preservation Zone (Suelo de Conservacion) that represents a territory subject to preservation...
Created ex nihilo prior to independence (1958), Nouakchott is both a city of uncontrolled urban growth (especially given the combined influence of the end of nomadic life and the great draughts) and the seat of all trappings of power, designed to symbolise the State, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. Presently, Nouakchoot is primarily a city that must resolve two major problems, notably with the...
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