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- 1From:Refuge (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract As European countries bordering the Mediterranean have introduced increasingly harsh measures to stem the flow of irregular migration across their frontiers, Turkey has become one of the main crossroads for...
- 2From:Town Planning Review (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe place of British new towns in global perspective For more than a century the idea of building new towns has captured the imagination of urban planners. Britain has been a centre of both theory and practice,...
- 3From:Urban Studies (Vol. 39, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedThe Irvine Ranch in Southern California is the largest privately master-planned new community' or satellite new town ever to be built in the US. The development was led by the private sector but government played an...
- 4From:Urban Planning (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCities in Sub-Saharan Africa are growing faster than in any other part of the world, driven by expanding informal settlement (usually on the urban periphery) and the real-estate sector aiming for up-market property...
- 5From:Gateway Journalism Review (Vol. 49, Issue 356)The 1917 East St. Louis race riot might more accurately be called a "racial massacre," thus avoiding confusion with the urban black uprisings of the 1960s. The riot in East St. Louis involved the slaughter of...
- 6From:Urban Planning (Vol. 27, Issue SI) Peer-ReviewedThis article seeks to analyse the reciprocal influence between the post-war urban planning policies and the development of residential neighbourhoods in Lelystad between 1965 and 1990. This city has been designed 'from...
- 7From:Urban Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines the wind-up of the British new towns programme in Scotland, and the way in which housing tenure became a critical issue. The origins and development of the new towns are outlined, and the parts played...
- 8From:Journal of Environmental and Public HealthPeer-ReviewedConsensus is lacking on specific and policy-relevant measures of neighborhood attributes that may affect health outcomes. To address this limitation, we created small standardized geographic units measuring the transit,...
- 9From:Renewal (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGuy Ortolano's latest book turns Milton Keynes from 'an object of scorn into an object of study', examining how social democracy was planned, built, and partially displaced in Britain's most notorious new town. We ask...
- 10From:The Futurist (Vol. 46, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNestled between the metropolitan and micropolitan categories officially defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget is an unofficial hybrid hometown dubbed micro urban--places with big-city amenities and a...
- 11From:Focaal (Issue 86) Peer-ReviewedThe People's Park Complex is one of two megastructures built in the early 1970s as prototypes for a new "Asian city of tomorrow" designed to humanize the urban expansion of Singapore through the creation of affective...
- 12From:Urban Planning (Vol. 27, Issue SI) Peer-ReviewedThis article traces an African Housing Renaissance through the Trabantenstadt (Satellite City) vision for Kigali embedded in the Gacuriro Valley Satellite, which is composed of two settlements (or umudugudu, in...
- 13From:Management Review (Vol. 88, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedFinally, Europe is going to have its own Silicon Valley, and it will start to take shape in the summer of 2000 by the Aegean Sea in Greece, the native land of Anthony Tomazinis, the brain behind the concept. Tomazinis,...
- 14From:APUNTES - Journal of Cultural Heritage Studies (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEl impacto producido por el ferrocarril en el territorio argentino no ha tenido similitudes en la historia, ni antes ni después. El modelo de ocupación implicó un nuevo ordenamiento territorial basado en la inserción de...
- 15From:Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This paper identifies four implementation agency models and several techniques for financing development of political capitals. The research is based upon case studies of Brasilia, Canberra, Chandigarh,...
- 16From:Pilot and Feasibility Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Increasing levels of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mental health problems, high rates of unhealthy behaviours and health inequalities remain major public health challenges worldwide. In the context of...
- 17From:Digest of Middle East Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines a new phenomenon in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) referred to as specialized cities (SC). These cities, in addition to being new towns, implement innovations in selected policy areas. This...
- 18From:Theoretical and Applied Climatology (Vol. 135, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThe mean and random components of the velocity field at very low wind speeds in a convective boundary layer (CBL) over a wide urban area are dominated by large eddy structures-either turbulent plumes or puffs. In the...
- 19From:Australian GeographicPeer-ReviewedByline: KEN EASTWOOD THE DYNAMIC VISION of one man contrasts with the scene in front of us. When the Mayor of Palmerston, Robert Macleod, looks between a sprawling Bunnings and his city's two shopping centres -...
- 20From:Alberta History (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe town itself is very prettily situated on the south bank of the Red Deer river which is here crossed by the railway only. At present the water is low and the river fordable, but at other times a traffic bridge is...