As Asia becomes increasingly urbanized the effect of new industrial development on child mortality becomes of increasing interest. In India, considerable investment has been made in the social infrastructure of industrial new towns. This survey of Durgapur steel town in West Bengal shows that although the average level of child mortality in the working class population is favourable in comparis...

Ruud Hortensius , David Terburg , Barak Morgan , Dan J. Stein , Jack van Honk b,c,g and Beatrice de Gelder a,b,* a Brain and Emotion Laboratory, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands b Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, J-Block, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Af...

We sought to synthesize evidence of the health effects of construction of new roads by systematically reviewing observational studies of such effects. We included and critically appraised 32 studies. The review suggested that out-of-town bypasses decrease injuries on main roads through or around towns, although more robust evidence is needed on effects on secondary roads. New major urban roads ...

New service concepts of sharing contexts with support for communication on wireless networks are beginning to emerge for mobile devices with diverse embedded sensors. In order to promote services based on sharing contexts in mobile devices, this paper introduces the MoCE (Mobile Context Explorer) architecture. MoCE was designed to support context-based services with context sharing on wireless ...

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The city life cycle is an issue that can be considered from many perspectives. Klaassen’s period the basic model of life: urbanisation– suburbanisation–deurbanisation–reurbanisation. In each these periods, cities develop by, building and transforming their structures. This article presents various approaches to shaping new urban spaces using Rzeszów as example. city’s history, three periods are...

Little is known about the relationship between town size and physical activity levels. A representative population sample survey was used to identify activity and environmental barrier differences between residents in diverse town sizes (n=7916). Binary logistic regression analysis identified residents in large cities (>100,000 people) were 15% less likely to be sedentary for overall activity c...

Urban land development in India is changing under the auspices of economic liberalisation. Kolkata has been in the forefront of this transformation through development of new townships in the urban peripheries based on a distinctive state-led land development model. Within this context, New Town, Kolkata (also known as Rajarhat) provides a highly illuminative case to articulate the ways in whic...

The international research network, Gender in the European Town, funded by the Danish Research council, has brought together new and established scholars from twelve countries to explore the place of gender in three interrelated areas that shaped the development of the earlymodern town: the economy, politics and civic identity, and real and imagined space. This workshop will draw upon the exten...

With the development of urbanization, the construction of town informationization is becoming more and more urgent and important in China. At present, the consciousness of town informationization is not deep; the information application is not of large scale; information-based talents are not enough and the information industry is of low level. Besides, lots of towns don’t know what to do and h...