Book Review: The Collection All Around: Sharing Our Cities, Towns, and Natural Places

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Towns and cities. A commentary on ‘performing towns’

Archaeological Dialogues / Volume 22 / Issue 02 / December 2015, pp 146 149 DOI: 10.1017/S1380203815000203, Published online: 02 November 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1380203815000203 How to cite this article: Monica L. Smith (2015). Towns and cities. A commentary on ‘performing towns’. Archaeological Dialogues, 22, pp 146-149 doi:10.1017/S1380203815000203 ...

Sprawl Save Our Land , Save Our Towns

Can tourism be the catalyst for urban preservation while permitting the continuation of urban culture? Only if local distinctiveness, rather than preserved monuments, is what attracts tourists to an historic region, argues Orba̧sli. The author advocates preservation through a planning-management approach. This approach avoids façadism (i.e., preservation of the physical elements only), and inste...

Modeling Morphology of Cities and Towns

Predicting urban growth is important for practical reasons, and also for the challenge it presents to theoretical frameworks for cluster dynamics [1–3]. Recently, the model of diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) [4,5] has been applied to describe urban growth [1], and results in tree-like dendritic structures which have a core or “central business district” (CBD). The DLA model predicts that th...

Improving air quality: national plan for tackling nitrogen dioxide in our towns and cities

The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change welcomes this opportunity to respond to Defra/DfT consultation on its Air Quality Plan for tackling nitrogen dioxide emissions in the UK. The draft plan rightly notes that poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK and disproportionately impacts vulnerable groups, including the elderly, children and people already suffe...