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This article reviews the substantive results from the urban environmental profiles that have appeared in this and past issues of Cities and also draws on data collected from urban environmental questionnaires and consultations held in the cities. Comparisons are made and tentative conclusions are drawn concerning: (1) the status of the environment in the urban region; (2) the interaction between...
During the last couple of years numerous European cities have engaged themselves in a territorial competition that eventually may lead to a redistribution of the economic and political relations between city-regions within the European Single Market. A whole range of factors including the breaking up of Eastern Europe have facilitated this development. Within the cities this has meant that the post-war...
Over the past 50 years, Stockholm has been transformed from a pre-war monocentric city to a planned post-war multi-centred metropolis. To maintain central Stockholm's vitality, regional planners built an extensive rail network that links satellite new towns with downtown Stockholm. The combination of a multi-centred settlement pattern and a superb rail network has produced a tremendous amount of...
This paper provides an examination of the implications for urban-rural interaction in developing countries of the increasing trend towards the creation of vast megalopolitan urban systems and of recent political changes in the world order. This is developed as a critique of Potter and Unwin's (1989) edited volume on the geography of urban-rural interaction in developing countries. In the first part...
This paper presents a brief discussion of fourteen issues of interest to urban researchers. Current work and recent citations are discussed and some salient questions are posed.
Cities around the world are struggling to reduce their automobile dependence and its impacts. One of the most significant tools in this struggle is physical planning, but at a time when it is most needed there are many commentators who have lost all confidence in planning. Such cynicism is analysed in terms of three approaches summarized as: People always buy more space and more mobility , ...
The article outlines two lines of analysis: a theoretical line and an empirical line. The relationship between these two represents therapeutic planning. This approach is applied to the La Mina district of Barcelona, a deprived district with a high proportion of inhabitants suffering from mental illness. By using six containing levels the article attempts to arrive at planning solutions to...
During 1991-1992 a review of community health needs was undertaken in the regional city of Lismore, NSW, Australia. The project involved members of the community, local government and other state government agencies in the identification and assessment of needs, the policy development process and planning of programmes and services. Data was collected on demographic characteristics, health status...
The history of Alfama, an old riverside area of Lisbon, is outlined. Alfama's contemporary problems are described, among them degraded housing stock, a large non-working population and a high proportion of empty homes. Finally, recent measures to rehabilitate the area while retaining its social and cultural values are listed.
The greater city-region of Zurich is expanding, bringing with it attendant problems of pollution and congestion. Dispersing new developments will only lead to increased private transport usage so development should take place within the region served by the existing public transport network. The article focuses on the Glattal region of northern Zurich (Figure 1) pointing out problems (such as high...
In the private sector, the choices exercised by consumers are expected to give the providers of housing guidance as to what types of accommodation urban households are willing and able to pay for. However, the basis for housing policy and project design decisions by the public sector is more problematic. One way of gathering relevant information is by means of household surveys which include questions...
With a current population approaching 200 000, Windhoek, the Namibian capital, is now home to 13% of the country's total population. Secondary and tertiary functions, state bureaucracies, high level educational, health and other social services are heavily concentrated in this classic primate city. Racial segregation was a feature of life throughout the century of colonial rule by Germany and then...
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