Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north

A Critical View on New Urbanism Theory in Urban Planning: From Theory to Practice

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

A New Approach to Chinese Urbanism

Food Systems: New-Ruralism vs. New-Urbanism

There is a growing debate on whether agricultural land in urban fringe should be maintained or converted to other uses. While ‘pro-ruralists’ believe agricultural land conversion can threaten food security and cause rural-urban migration, ‘pro-urbanists’ find it a necessary change for transition from a primitive agricultural-based community to an advanced industrialbased society which has the c...

The Australian Economic ‘Miracle’: A View from the North

This paper analyses a variety of aspects of the ‘miraculous’ performance of the Australian economy in the 1990s from an international perspective. We start by considering the conduct of macroeconomic policies, arguing that a mixture of good institutional design and wise decision-making has ensured an appropriate macroeconomic stance, particularly through the turbulent period of the Asian Crisis...

Genetic Structure of Europeans: A View from the North–East

Using principal component (PC) analysis, we studied the genetic constitution of 3,112 individuals from Europe as portrayed by more than 270,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) genotyped with the Illumina Infinium platform. In cohorts where the sample size was >100, one hundred randomly chosen samples were used for analysis to minimize the sample size effect, resulting in a total of 1,564...