Urban mobility behavior is influenced by complex interrelations of personal attitudes, neighborhood design, emerging digitalized shared services, and urban governance. The transformation ecosystems in the Middle East North African (MENA) South Asian (SA) regions lacks an in-depth comparative review to understand determinants attitudes mode choices. objective this paper systematically study exis...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse Croatia's potential to integrate the concept of polycentric development – an even development of equally spaced urban centres which also aims at lessening regional disparities – into its regional development policy. By applying the polycentricity index to the Croatian data, following Meijers and Sandberg's methodological approach (2006), Croatia is found ...

OBJECTIVE Initiatives to monitor progress in health interventions like sanitation are increasingly focused on disparities in access. We explored three methodological challenges to monitoring changes in sanitation coverage across socio-economic and demographic determinants: (i) confounding by wealth indices including water and sanitation assets, (ii) use of individual urban and rural settings ve...

Thanks to the increasing popularity of location-based social networks, a large amount of user-generated geo-referenced check-in data is now available, and such check-in data is becoming a new data source in the study of mobility and travel. Conventionally, spatial interactions between places were measured based on the trips made between them. This paper empirically investigates the use of socia...

This article aims to examine the ageing situation and social policy issues in the Osijek-Baranja County of eastern Croatia. Using historical evidence from census data, research suggests that the evolution of the ageing pattern has been mainly determined by such factors as development of the transport system, changes in political territorial organisation, supply of jobs in the cities, deagrarian...

introduction in 1950s, only 30% of the world's population lived in urban areas. by 2000, that proportion increasedup to 47%, and by 2050 the estimated number will be around 72%. urban sprawl, an undesirable type of urban growth, is one of the major concerns ofthe city planners and administrators. understanding urban patterns, dynamic processes, and their relationships is a primary objectiv...

increasing concern with income distribution effects rather than growth effects of government activities has prompted numerous incidence analysis of government tax and expenditure behavior, in this paper, the extent of government contributions to changes in income inequality is analyzed for the Iranian economy. Some major findings of this research is that income distribution in urban areas was m...

We examined differences in health measures among rural, suburban, and urban residents and factors that contribute to these differences. Whereas differences between rural and urban residents were observed for some health measures, a consistent rural-to-urban gradient was not always found. Often, the most rural and the most urban areas were found to be disadvantaged compared with suburban areas. ...