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The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences devoted its conference in 1989 to the discussion of urbanisation in Ghana. Its verdict was a report called The Future of Our Cities. This essay reviews the future of Ghanaian cities as seen 19 years ago in that book and attempts an assessment of contemporary Ghanaian urbanisation, drawing on the literature on urban planning and on newspaper and radio commentaries...
This paper employs town planning policies to suggest that ideology and not objective science or a genuine desire to promote development is at the root of development policies in African countries. It identifies and discusses four ideologies: indigenous elitism (pre-colonial era – 1884); European racism (colonial era, 1884–1960s); modernism (1960–1980s); and globalism (1990s–present); that have been...
Mashad is the capital city of Khorasan Razavi Province, in the North East of Iran. The city has witnessed rapid growth in the last two decades, mostly because of its economic, social and religious attractions. We implemented this study to understand Mashad City growth dynamics, to forecast its sprawl for the next two decades and to provide a basis for urban management. We used the SLEUTH urban growth...
Vientiane, the capital of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, is a small city that has experienced various rounds of socio-economic experimentation during the past few decades: currently, it is set in a capitalist economic context under the rule of a communist regime. With increasing connectivity to regional and global networks, the city has embarked on a far-reaching path of urban transformation...
Turkish governments have discovered the potential in regenerating inner-city squatter housing areas, in order to increase the competitiveness of cities in the global context. Urban regeneration is defined as a spatial strategy in which prestigious urban uses have been increasing through private sector investments in public areas. These developments have opened new discussions on the displacement of...
The onus on the planning systems of most advanced capitalist societies to develop a more sustainable urban development pattern has resulted in an ever-increasing emphasis on policies to increase residential densities. As evident by rapidly sprawling development patterns which are now characteristic of most Western societies, individual residential preferences appear to be at variance with this policy...
This article examines the contribution of the concepts trust and risk to our understanding of place meaning as people perceive it, and compares the meanings of a place to two different ethnic groups: Arabs and Jews in Israel. The empirical quantitative study was conducted among 210 Arab and Jewish adults who visited the renovated German Colony, a leisure place of restaurants and bars, in Haifa in...
This paper aims to address two closely related research questions pertaining to Macao’s strategies to develop its gaming industry. First, what is the rational gaming development strategy for the city, given the significant side effects accompanying the ongoing casino boom? Second, why is that rational strategy not being implemented? The authors develop a growth vs. side effects trade-off model to...
The historically agrarian and provincial city of Valencia has recently been transformed into a Spanish regional capital, a Mediterranean cultural and economic center, and a major tourism destination. Valencia’s engagement with globalization and European integration has unfolded amidst complex regional politics, marked by vigorous debates about cultural difference, political autonomy, and official...
The proliferation of the new middle-class and the ongoing gentrification of many Chinese cities calls for another reflection on causes of the latter. The paper presents an effort to unravel the middle-class in Chinese cities in order to probe the role of the professional middle-class in gentrification. Through a survey of randomly selected professional and managerial workers in the service industry,...
This paper shows the results of a study carried out on the central area of Irbid, Jordan in order to assess the effect of the modern urbanization process on the degradation and loss of the city’s heritage. This type of work comes as a result of the need to study the interaction between modern and heritage landscapes, which are in a direct physical contact with each other, and thus to address the problems...
Town centre management (TCM) has evolved considerably over the last 25 years in terms of both its purpose and methods. Whilst most reviews of TCM to date have focused on its development within the Anglo-Saxon world (typically North America and the United Kingdom), comparatively little attention has been given to other models of place and town centre management that have emerged across Europe. This...
The changing role of government in infrastructure provision and the need for community-based approach are widely gaining increasing recognition, but the extent to which local communities are involved in urban infrastructure provision in developing countries has not been given adequate attention in the literature. This study examines how community-based organizations are filling the gap created by...
Data from the World Values Survey are used in multilevel statistical models to evaluate received theory about preferences for rural versus big-city living, as evidenced by variations in life satisfaction/happiness/utility and its converse, life dissatisfaction. The models control for individual-level determinants of life satisfaction plus such embedding circumstances as level of development and culture...
Post-WWII estates are often perceived as being places of low participation of citizens and of low trust among neighbours. We observe the situation in two such ‘dysfunctional’ post-WWII estates in two very different countries – Slovenia and the Netherlands. Traditional explanations often focus on the neighbourhood context in which social capital is built, and how this leads to participation. We connect...
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