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Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1989
The functions of cities in societies are discussed in this essay, the specialized functions performed and the integration of functions. The cities are seen as marketplaces of ideas, attitudes, artifacts, and consequently, innovation; they are driving wheels of great cultures.
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The functions of cities in societies are discussed in this essay, the specialized functions performed and the integration of functions. The cities are seen as marketplaces of ideas, attitudes, artifacts, and consequently, innovation; they are driving wheels of great cultures.
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Issue, 1978
Africa is now the least urbanized of the continents but is becoming more so at one of the fastest rates in the world. The history of urbanization in Africa predates the birth of Christ; it may have developed as early as 3500 B.C. in the flood plain of the lower Nile for control and administration of the Nile Valley by the Pharaohs, though most of the ...
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Africa is now the least urbanized of the continents but is becoming more so at one of the fastest rates in the world. The history of urbanization in Africa predates the birth of Christ; it may have developed as early as 3500 B.C. in the flood plain of the lower Nile for control and administration of the Nile Valley by the Pharaohs, though most of the ...
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Urban Regeneration for Urban Health
2020For some years now when attempting to regenerate the urban fabric of big cities, the field of environmental design has been tackling the challenges posed by ongoing climate change, extreme poverty, social marginalisation and health problems, where these are neither occasional nor residual situations that arise as part of development processes but ...
Battisti A., Barnocchi A., Iorio S.
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Urban Dynamics and Urban Cycles [PDF]
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1978 Some basic elements of catastrophe theory are discussed insofar as they relate to discontinuities observed in the allocation of economic activities in urban settings. The case of a dynamic model of the allocation of manufacturing and residential activities is presented in an open urban area as a model of a hyperbolic umbilic catastrophe.
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Rural-to-urban and urban-to-urban migration patterns in Colombia
Habitat International, 1993"The object of this study was to identify the factors that may explain, and help to predict, the direction and intensity of migration flows from rural to urban and from urban to urban areas in Colombia. For this purpose, statistical models were used with a view to obtaining a better insight into the push-and-pull causes of the migration patterns and a ...
D, Shefer, L, Steinvortz
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American Journal of Sociology, 1959
The global phenomena of city growth stimulate increasing interest in urbanism as a world-permeating way of life. Urbanization, seen as the movement of people into industry and cities and reflective of urbanism, has received considerable demographic attention. But the research fails to include some pertinent phases of urbanization.
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The global phenomena of city growth stimulate increasing interest in urbanism as a world-permeating way of life. Urbanization, seen as the movement of people into industry and cities and reflective of urbanism, has received considerable demographic attention. But the research fails to include some pertinent phases of urbanization.
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Urbanization, Urbanism and the Medina of Tunis
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1978The problematic status of the historical urban core raises analogous questions for city planners in cities otherwise as diverse as Paris, Istanbual, or Mexico City. In the case of medinas of the Islamic world the historical core is less the site of monuments pertaining to our common heritage than it is a discrete part of the urban fabric which, while ...
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2010
You are an urban hitchhiker. All drivers are willing to give you a ride, as long as they do not have to alter their trajectories to accommodate your needs. How (and how quickly) can you get to your destination? We analyze two scenarios, depending on whether hitchhikers have a global picture of who is going where through some information infrastructure,
BRESSAN, MARCO, Peserico, Enoch
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You are an urban hitchhiker. All drivers are willing to give you a ride, as long as they do not have to alter their trajectories to accommodate your needs. How (and how quickly) can you get to your destination? We analyze two scenarios, depending on whether hitchhikers have a global picture of who is going where through some information infrastructure,
BRESSAN, MARCO, Peserico, Enoch
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Questioning the Urban in Urban Tourism
2009The relationships between cities and tourism are much wider than the scope of this chapter. Much tourism clearly occurs outside cities, but the importance of cities is easily argued and only the most relevant aspects of these interactions will be considered here.
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Ecological effects of new-type urbanization in China
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021Binbin Yu
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