extended abstractintroductiontoday, large number of world’s major cities is located in coastal environments these towns have and all important positions in the economic, cultural and social functions. coastal areas and the cities located in they are economically very important in terms of the environment, sensitive to many of factors influencing and physically, against a variety of natural haza...

A majority of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2007 and cities are exerting growing influence on the health of both urban and non-urban residents. Although there long has been substantial interest in the associations between city living and health, relatively little work has tried to understand how and why cities affect population health. This reflects both the number and comp...

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Previous authors have argued that ethnically diverse cities spend less on public goods than their homogeneous counterparts. In this paper, I present new evidence that challenges this claim. Incorporating improved measures of local expenditures in a panel study of US cities, I find that diversifying cities spend more per capita on most public goods – including police, fire protection, sanitation...

The interactive Web seems a natural place for the use of agent technology, to bring access to e-services with solutions to dynamic, open and changing environments. However, agent technology is still quite low key in this expanding area of Internet access and e-business space. Part of the reason for this has been the lack of a large-scale test-bed. Some fundamental changes in the development of ...

Why study the city through objects? As we will argue below, material objects are analytically important but until recently they have largely been marginalised in urban studies. Thus, our aim here is to bring them to the centre of the analysis of the city. In Part I, after first reviewing how materiality has been taken up in the work of key urbanists, we propose a conceptual and methodological o...