France's first city planning law

City health development planning.

The objective of this evaluation was to review the evolution and process of city health development planning (CHDP) in municipalities participating in the Healthy Cities Network organized by the European Region of the World Health Organization. The concept of CHDP combines elements from three theoretical domains: (a) health development, (b) city governance and (c) urban planning. The setting wa...

Planning and the Industrial City

ON OC TOBE R 25, 1945, Pennsylvania governor Edward Martin announced that the state legislature had officially authorized the creation of a state park in the city of Pittsburgh, at the “Point,” the historic confluence of the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela rivers. In less than a month, Pittsburgh’s political and business leadership, led by the city’s banking tycoon and civic luminary Richard K...

Strategic planning for city networks

Throughout Europe, policy‐makers are developing policies to foster the spatial, economic and social development of what is, in the literature, often termed 'polycentric urban regions': a regional cluster of close‐by cities. It is assumed that taking a set of relatively small or medium‐ sized cities together opens up possibilities for regional economic growth. In this paper we put forward that t...

Mary Frances Lyon (1925–2014)

Mary Frances Lyon Mary Lyon was one of the most notable geneticists of the 20th century. She is renowned for her discovery of X inactivation, an early example of epigenetic gene regulation, but she alsomade fundamental contributions to the entire field of genetics. Mary was born on May 15, 1925 in Norwich, in the rural east of the United Kingdom. She was the first child of Clifford James Lyon, ...

Strategic Planning for Islamic-Iranian City