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This study examines the interaction between urban politics and public policy in the framework of an urban planning project. Specifically, the study is based on research into decisions that determined which neighborhoods were to be included in Project Renewal – a comprehensive physical and social program in Israel for rehabilitation of neighborhoods. The paper develops two themes: 1. Given a program...
This survey presents the results of a questionnaire sent to a list of key scholars and professionals in fields related to urban processes and planning – town planning, geography, sociology, architecture and anthropology. The survey raised four simple, straightforward questions. What are the most pressing conflicts with regard to contemporary cities? What are the main fields of action for solving them?...
Rangoon is the largest city in Burma and dates back more than a 1000years to the Mon Dynasty. It has evolved into a large metropolis that has experienced substantial demographic, economic, and environmental transition. As the largest Burmese settlement in terms of population and extent, and as the nation’s chief port and the center of its commercial and tourism sectors, it has been the site of massive...
Cities thrive for many reasons. The sheer impact of people, socio-economic activities and urban development promotes the essential conditions for urban growth. Gaming, in addition to a myriad of other entertainment activities, has been used to foster urban growth in cities. Las Vegas and Macau are two territories that are well known for their high concentration of casinos, hotels and shopping malls...
Public private partnerships (PPPs) have been widely adopted to provide essential social and economic infrastructure and services. However, there is currently no systematic mechanism governing how social concerns should be captured at different stages of a PPP project. This paper, therefore, advocates a rethinking of the pragmatic issues underpinning public engagement and suggests a process framework...
Urban redevelopment projects are usually the responsibility of local government, but there can be local projects which generate large national wealth effects and for that reason have a direct national government involvement. While such involvement can be justified theoretically, evidence from the Netherlands suggests that in practice the issue is far from unambiguous. This paper therefore considers...
Revitalization of urban alleys, underway in cities and towns in North America, Europe, and other regions, can be seen as a manifestation of a broader movement among city agencies, planners, and community groups to expand green urban infrastructure and promote sustainability. This article analyzes alley greening programs in seven cities in the United States using the lens of sustainability planning...
Although several strategy scholars have pleaded for a pluralistic approach, not many have empirically shown the actual implementation of pluralism in strategic real estate decisions. In this article we demonstrate the value of implementing pluralism for the design of a real estate strategy of a Dutch university campus. Three strategic projects – an Ideas Competition, a Think Tank and a Campus Vision...
This paper revisits the City Profile for Delhi, the first article ever published in Cities in 1983 (Datta, 1983). Thirty years later and following the centennial anniversary year of Delhi’s establishment as the capital of India in 2012, this article makes a wide-ranging survey of Delhi in the administrative, socio-economic and environmental arenas. By tracing the history of urban planning in the city...
Maya and Aztec cities exhibited a distinctive kind of low-density urbanism common in ancient Mesoamerica. The non-monumental components of these cities differed from the high-density ancient and historical cities in the Old World that are often considered the norm for pre-modern urbanism. Distinctive features include the practice of intensive agricultural cultivation within urban settlements, residential...
In the age of globalization, urban centers, including those in India, are competing with each other to attract business. Arguably, some cities are endowed with a high quality of infrastructure compared to others. In this context, the paper explores the role played by infrastructural development in ensuring attractiveness of cities in India from the standpoint of conducting business. It examines the...
The paper analyses the territorial implications of the Israeli barrier/wall with reference to the metropolitan area of Jerusalem. The thesis argued is that the barrier continues both the ‘Judaisation’ and ‘de-Arabisation’ process of the city implemented by the Israeli authorities since 1967 and mainly practiced through urban policies. However, unlike these latter, it does not primarily affect the...
Visitor perception can influence use pattern and inform planning and management of urban green spaces (UGSs). This study investigated visitors’ views on key UGS variables and socioeconomic effect on UGS perception in Guangzhou, China. A questionnaire survey solicited responses to positive and negative UGS attributes from 595 respondents selected by stratified sampling from visitors in the study area...
Although the scale and speed of China’s urban and economic transition is well acknowledged, a detailed account of the transformation of a single city’s development in this context is quite rare. This paper provides an insight into the recent dynamics of China’s capital city, Beijing. In the early 1980s, China’s transition process from a planned to a market economy started to deeply affect the urban...
Where is the best place to live? The answer depends on how we ask the question and which scale we apply. Our study offers two contributions to the increasing comparability of research on citizen satisfaction: First, it combines together 18 different scales with items derived from qualitative research and then reduces those items to a set of 21 questions that we label Citizen Satisfaction Index (CSI)...
Historic towns are preserved and given new importance within the new cultural economy. This paper examines the conditions under which built heritage is being preserved in urban regeneration programmes in a Norwegian context. An interesting finding from this study of three towns, Stavanger, Mosjøen and Risør, is that the conservation plan itself was not the most important factor. Part of the answer...
There is a need to create sustainable urban development and quality living environments for the growing urban populations of high-density cities. Sustainable urban planning of high-density cities from the urban climatic point of view is a topical issue for city planners and policy makers. However, the application of urban climatic knowledge has only led to low-impact urban planning decision-making...
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia has in the past half century transformed from an isolated frontier town to the center of the country’s agro-industrial production zone. By the 1990s, Santa Cruz (as the city is often abbreviated) had largely overtaken La Paz as Bolivia’s financial capital and most important economic pole, and its political influence is growing. Regional economic growth in eastern Bolivia...
Gwangju is a metropolitan city located in the southwest of the Republic of Korea. The city was relatively socio-economically underdeveloped compared to other major Korean cities, particularly cities in the capital region and the southeast, until the 1980s. The central government’s former efficiency-oriented economic development policies, which focused on specific strategic locations in Korea, account...
This work introduces a method aimed at identifying metropolitan sub-centres based on an interaction approach, using commuting flows. In addition, it compares the results with other approaches based on employment and/or density thresholds commonly used in the literature. Although the scientific literature and the policy debate on polycentricity are increasingly devoted to its functional dimension,...
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