With forecasting the settlement of more than 66 percent of the population of the world in cities over the next 10 years, the world is becoming a global city. So many problems would be involved in the future of urban management. Researchers presume good governance as the best solution for their management problems of metropolitans Therefore, considering the components of the theory of good gove...

Old Indian cities are often less accessible due to temporal restrictions and ever-rising pedestrian volume. In this research, the accessibility of footpath-level walkability condition old core has been assessed through Architectural Planning Research, considering 32 footpath stretches in Central Kolkata, India, as a case. The research considered 3 data sets, (a) 257 experts' opinions about univ...

Based on the subdistrict (jie-dao) data from 1982 and 1990 national population censuses, this research employs two approaches to investigate the urban population change patterns in Shenyang, China. The density function approach examines what function best characterizes its density distribution, how the density pattern has changed over time, how many centers can be identified in the city, and ho...

Driven by rising income and urban population growth, China has experienced rapid urban expansion since the 1980s. Urbanization can have positive effects on the urban environment; however, improvement of urban environment quality, especially its divergence between relatively developed and undeveloped cities in China, is currently a rather rudimentary and subjective issue. This study analyzed urb...

This is an enjoyably readable celebration of the city by a prominent urban economist, until now known more for heavy theory than writing for a popular audience. The basic target of the book is the anti-urbanism that abounds in the popular imagination, in the national politics of many countries, and even in certain corners of the academic community. Glaeser synthesizes the theory and evidence th...