Abstract This article examines the proposals for Stonehouse, designated as sixth Scottish new town in 1972 but abandoned 1976. Several themes emerge, with lessons wider urban and political histories of 1970s Britain. First, evolving plans demonstrate ‘malleability’ post-war ‘new idea’, conceptually organizationally. Second, cancellation was consequence short-term factors, changing strategic obj...

A town of 42,000 inhabitants in the agricultural belt on south side Milan, Rozzano was developed 1960s and 1970s Soviet suburban model to house migrant workers from south. The stock modular cement high-rises is now deteriorating rapidly will not be restored or replaced with similar buildings. council intends replace this fabric one that more livable, following principles New Urbanism. Two proje...

We analyzed the expansion process of town centers in the rural area of Changjiang delta since middle of 1980s and its mechanism using satellite images. The local industries played the most important role in urbanization of rural areas through investing their profits and paying their taxes to the town finance. Therefore, expansion of the town center was regulated by the growth of local industrie...

– Localization of the early medieval Saxon castle Hocseburg documented in written sources. New insight development town Seehausen, Middle Germany.

This paper proposes a new research approach, which we call Social Robotics, for developing robots which works in human societies. The robots needs three elements: robot itself, infrastructures which support robot behaviors, and human interfaces for communication between robots, humans and operators who maintain the robot systems. The research approach aims to develop robust systems with the thr...

In this paper, we ask “Can proximity to towns reduces poverty in rural areas?” For this study we have mapped all the villages in Orissa. The study is based on small area poverty estimation methodology as well as the secondary data covering 47,395 villages and 109 towns. Our main findings are (i) there is a relationship between the distance to nearest town and rural poverty and (ii) poverty leve...