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The global phenomenon of waterfront revitalization is a planning strategy commonly employed by city and port authorities eager to overcome the redundancy and associated urban decay of their docklands. The spatial transformation that generally accompanies such initiatives often results in functional conflict. Focusing on the redevelopment of the traditional dockland precinct of the South African...
This study examines the perceptions of home mortgage lenders, real estate agents, appraisers and landowners in Brantford and Cambridge, Ontario to floodplain regulations. Relevant material from the Grand River Conservation Authority office was reviewed. Interviews conducted with representatives from the real estate sector examined their professional experience, response to floodplain regulations,...
The role of innovation in influencing business performance and survival is widely accepted, but there is only limited evidence identifying any direct relationships between them. This paper uses data from a cohort study of mature British mechanical engineering establishments to investigate locational, technological and other characteristics of establishments surviving during two time periods: 1981-1986...
While many studies have analyzed EIS procedures, only a few have analyzed EISs as part of the development process. When viewed from this perspective, EISs are shown to have a skewing effect on territorial development; they address mainly infrastructure projects, and consequently delay them, but hardly touch any of the residential projects which the infrastructure is designed to serve. This discrepancy...
Global economic restructuring has not only intensified the shift in reproductive work from the household to the market, but it has been predicated on the international mobility of labour to countries where locals are no longer willing to work in low-paying menial jobs. This paper focuses on Singapore as a country which has drawn upon female migrant workers from neighbouring developing countries to...
This essay evaluates the evolution of Paul Krugman's ideas about economic geography between 1989 and 1996, focusing on the scope and intention of his work. While Krugman's geographical writings have acknowledged diverse research traditions, he has increasingly focused his efforts on formal spatial models that embody the methods of mainstream economic modeling. This emphasis reflects Krugman's view...
This paper examines recent theoretical exchanges around urban politics that have taken place between U.S. and U.K. academics and policy makers. Urban regime theory is outlined, its development in the U.S. traced and its initial application in the U.K. considered. Using urban regime theory two problems are isolated and interrogated: first the difficulty in theoretical transfer, in this case from...
Land invasions, where people move onto private or public land illegally in an attempt to gain access to resources within the urban sphere, result in the juxtaposition of contrasting urban landscapes and in alterations to place-making processes. This paper examines the changes to place, as perceived by the formal residents of the area, arising from the establishment and growth of an informal settlement...
Since 1989 Vietnam has been undergoing a process of re-engagement with the world economy. This liberalization process (doi moi) has been heavily concentrated on the two main cities of Vietnam, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and despite the Vietnamese being eager to avoid the creation of another Bangkok, with all of its environmental and social problems, the sustainability of the present urban-based economic...
Much rests on ports in China, for to them is attached the burden of proving the soundness of relying on interior coalfields for energy supply. Shortcomings on their part are likely to plunge China into an energy crisis, to say nothing of setting back efforts aimed at overcoming regional disparities. Sweeping statements of this kind invite justification, and that is the object of the paper. Beginning...
Laws about agricultural landholding are an important locus of regulation in industrial societies. States fostering industrial production and consumption must allow growth to subsume and transform farmland, yet must move carefully against prior agrarian forms which serve the state's own needs for legitimation and stability. How specific national regimes of accumulation have sustained both economic...
This essay uses Marxian political-economy to make sense of an important international resource problem: the over-exploitation of the north Pacific fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) in the years between 1870 and 1911. Involving multiple economic actors and several nation states, the harvesting of the fur seal almost brought Britain and the U.S. to the point of armed conflict, almost brought financial...
This paper is concerned with the delivery of social housing in Ontario, Canada, under a decentralized program using local, third sector sponsors. The model of delivery can be characterized as welfare pluralist. A recent perspective from studies of program implementation is adopted to highlight implementation as a process of mutual shaping in which the actions of various constituents contribute to...
Increasing attention is being given to the provision of services for young children. This paper draws on original research to explore the differential use and impact of such children's services and care in an explicitly rural context. The picture it draws of family life and service use in three contrasting areas of Devon has policy implications which extend beyond the county to other rural localities...
Based on a case study from the Philippines, this paper argues that globalization forms a material set of processes, but also a political discourse employed to legitimize certain power relations. I argue, firstly, that scales, and particularly the global scale, can be viewed as social constructions reflecting political interests rather than neutral categories of geographical space. I suggest that...
The purpose of this paper is to present main findings of flood research conducted so far in Bangladesh. The paper emphasizes unconventional findings and points out how some of these findings differ from the popular perceptions regarding some important aspects of flooding. The available studies clearly suggests that research into the impact of flooding on human settlement and other relevant aspects...
Agri-environmental policies have become increasingly prominent measures in the farm sector of England and Wales. This major development has not escaped the attention of agricultural geographers, but little work has emerged which overtly explores the geographical consequences of agri-environmental policy on land use patterns and countryside conservation. Understanding this geography is important...
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