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The evolution of the urban system in the semi-arid and arid West China has a close relationship to the origin, prosperity, and decline of the ancient Silk Road. This urban system bears noticeable inscriptions of the fragile physical environment, complex ethnic mix, and changing political systems and policies. This paper uses the mid-section of the ancient Silk Road – He-Xi Corridor as a case study...
Using 1990 and 2000 census data, the purpose of this study is to examine just how effective Chicago’s Empowerment Zone programs were at alleviating poverty and improving socioeconomic conditions both within the zone itself, and in the equally distressed adjacent neighborhoods. Findings indicate that the zone area did experience significant socioeconomic gains in the form of poverty and unemployment...
Bristol is the sixth largest city in England and is one of eight ‘core’ cities. Bristol provides a particularly interesting example of a city which is currently relatively economically successful in the British context. However, there are pressures of growth in the city-region, particularly linked to sustainability and affordability, sitting alongside long-standing social problems and associated decline...
Although many studies employ either interaction- or node-attribute data to study the positions of cities in the urban system, relatively little is known about the relationships between these two different types of data. This study explores this relationship by ranking and comparing 39 metropolitan areas in Western Europe according to their relative role in the system of flows and their concentration...
The position of Amsterdam as an international centre of business, culture and tourism has recently been threatened by increasingly fierce inter-urban competition. The desire to improve Amsterdam’s attractiveness to local and international audiences, and to retune the city’s international image, has led to a fundamental strategic marketing exercise involving a far-reaching examination of stakeholders,...
This paper attempts to reframe debates on the equity implications of spatial, socioeconomic, and political change in global cities in developing countries through a review of recent literature on this topic. It begins by critiquing the view that global cities in developing countries are converging around a model of development similar to that of the prototypical global cities of the United States,...
In this paper we illustrate the socio-economic dynamics of peri-urban zones of Indian Metropolitan cities, which are at the heart of the current urban liberalisation. For this, we study the impact of the water purchasing agreement the Metropolitan water board signed with some farmers of peri-urban areas of Chennai (formerly Madras). Acute water shortage in Chennai and subsequent recourse to outer-bound...
Between 1995 and 2004, regional political elites in Andhra Pradesh sought to transform greater Hyderabad into a dynamic economic region oriented toward global growth sectors. Inspired by the infrastructure-led growth model, a dominant strategy consisted in fitting out, via public–private partnerships, specialised business/technology parks and attracting investment through carefully designed industrial...
Current debates on urban governance suggest that multi-stakeholder arrangements between providers and users of environmental services – especially those in which there are direct links between providers and users in decision-making – lead to more accountability and better performance in service provision. The article analyses the situation in two municipalities around Chennai, India, with regard to...
Specific forms of urbanisation are evolving on the peripheries of the large developing metropolises. These processes of peri-urbanisation result in the formation of “mixed spaces”, midway between urban centres and rural spaces – transitory spaces subject to rapid and multiple transformations. Our initial hypothesis in order to understand these processes is the non-neutrality of location in the metropolitan...
This study examines the process of restructuring taking place in metropolitan cities in India. The opening up of the Indian economy since 1991 has brought much change in large cities. Both local and global agencies have played a role but with considerable variation in different states of the country. Taking the case of Bangalore (Karnataka) and Kolkata (West Bengal), the objective of this paper is...
Rapid changes in land use and occupational patterns of urban spaces in developing cities bring upfront the conflict between housing requirements and the preservation of green spaces. This paper examines this conflict in the case of Mumbai, where 50% of the population lives on 8% of the land while the city has very limited green spaces except for a large urban forest. In the 1990s, settlements grew...
The informal production of food in city areas, a phenomenon known as urban agriculture (UA), has been a widespread strategy adopted by urban dwellers in many sub-Saharan African cities to cope with increasing poverty, caused by increasing population pressure and economic collapse. This phenomenon is also evident in Ethiopia. In a context of widespread urban unemployment and poor living conditions,...
Cities have been viewed for several decades as the places within Europe typically facing the greatest problems associated with economic and population decline. A contrasting view has emerged recently that identifies cities as sites of economic dynamism and social vitality. The paper offers evidence on population change for 310 cities across the whole of Europe to assess how their fortunes have changed...
To understand the socio-spatial impacts of property-led redevelopment on China’s urban neighbourhoods, this study inquires into two influential redevelopment projects in Shanghai. The significance of this research lies in using first-hand data to indicate the new trends of urban change in the Chinese city. Through analysing the data from a 500-questionnaire survey, two different forms of socio-spatial...
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