ABOUT CONTEMPORARY URBAN IN-MOBILITIES

City Talk: Urban Identities, Mobilities and Textualities

Urban Development in Contemporary China

Known for its ancient metropolises, China has recently amazed the world with its rapid urban development as it enters the new millennium. Although China is still a predominately agrarian society with only 36 percent of its population living in cities in 2000, it has more people living in cities (456 million) than the total population of any other nation in the world except India (National Burea...

Cultural Mobilities: Diversity and Agency in Urban Computing

The rise of wireless networks and portable computing devices has been accompanied by an increasing interest in technology and mobility, and in the urban environment as a site of interaction. However, most investigations have taken a relatively narrow view of urban mobility. In consequence, design practice runs the risk of privileging particular viewpoints, forms of mobility, and social groups. ...

Ancient Iranian Urban Structure and its Situation in Contemporary City

Gender Stratification in Contemporary Urban Japan