Rebuilding the city: a focus for European industrial policy?

2 . Policy Frameworks for the NW European Mega - City Region

Princes and Merchants: European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution*

As measured by the pace of city growth in western Europe from 1000 to 1800, absolutist monarchs stunted the growth of commerce and industry. A region ruled by an absolutist prince saw its total urban population shrink by one hundred thousand people per century relative to a region without absolutist government. This might be explained by higher rates of taxation under revenue-maximizing absolut...

the foreign policy ofislamic republic of iran during the iran-iraq war :with a focus on european community

the eight year war between iran and iraq is a sensitive and critical period in iran's foreign policy; particularly towards the european community. accordingly and in spite of the fact that the foundations of the new regime in iran have not been consolidated a full scale war ,was imposed on iran, overshadowing all policies and plans including iran's foreign policy. this paper tries to ...

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...

City Planning Approach for Rebuilding Enterprise Information Systems: The Move towards a More Effective EIS City Planning Approach

ii Acknowledgements I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Junichi Iijima, whose insightful advice and guidance have been indispensable throughout my period of study at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Thanks are also due to the other members of my thesis committee—Professors Motoshi Saeki, Norihiro Nakai, Kunihiro Higa Dai Senoo, and Hiroyuki Umemuro—who have offered valuable ...