New Urbanism as Urban Political Development: Racial Geographies of ‘Intercurrence’ across Greater Seattle

Geographies of Development: New Maps, New Visions?

The use of categories (such as developing world or Third World) to demarcate world regions on the basis of their levels of development is increasingly disputed. Moreover, in the last few years, references have proliferated to the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), or sometimes BRICA (adding the Arab states of the Gulf), as hyperlinks to future-oriented investment in the world economy. These ...

New urbanism approach and urban space in mega cities

New Urbanism design principles have been adopted for many urban planning efforts in recent years. The purpose of this paper is studding the structure and space of Shahid Beheshti Square as one of the most important and old squares of Tabriz from the view of new urbanism principals. In order to reaching this purpose the data were collected through a questionnaire distributed among peoples that a...

A Review of the Contextual Adaptability of Three Contemporary Urban Paradigms: New Urbanism, Urban Village and Urban Renaissance

Visualising urban geographies

In studies of towns and cities, and indeed throughout the humanities and social sciences, a significant volume of data is held as an address, or as an area, such as a registration district or ward. We even talk of post codes or zip codes when referring to differential levels of health provision or motor insurance. However, at all academic levels, from undergraduate projects to advanced postdoct...

Unequal Gain of Equal Resources across Racial Groups

The health effects of economic resources (eg, education, employment, and living place) and psychological assets (eg, self-efficacy, perceived control over life, anger control, and emotions) are well-known. This article summarizes the results of a growing body of evidence documenting Blacks’ diminished return, defined as a systematically smaller health gain from economic resources and psychologi...