Developed, modern cities throughout the world are facing population declines at an unprecedented scale. Over the last fifty years, 370 cities throughout the world with populations over 100,000 have shrunk by at least 10% (Oswalt and Rieniets 2007). Wide swaths of the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan are projecting double-digit declines in population in the coming decades. Internationally, schola...

Bangalore Nursing Home, Bangalore tr is the general medical practitioner that S,ects cases of tuberculosis in the earliest stages. iJle efficient working of the anti-tuberculosis campaign therefore depends on the general Medical practitioner. Isolation of cases being ?ne of the most important measures in the campaign especially in a city like Bangalore, ^ . facilities for isolation must be prov...

Improved competitiveness, as we all know, is the path to economic nirvana. Plainly, it is a sought after property of any economy: the term trips frequently off the lips of politicians and commentators on economic and business matters. As cities increasingly engage in competition with one another at different levels, the determinants of competitive advantage are coming under intense scrutiny. Ma...

This paper examines the city of Steelport in Saints Row: The Third (Volition, 2011) as a real-and-imagined space that can be described using an urban framework of constitutional, representational, and experiential components. It relates mediated and physical cities through spatial arrangement, processes of representation, and the factors that contribute to a sense of place in both material and ...

When a woman leaves her natural sphere, And without her sex’s modesty or fear Assays the part of man, She, in her weak attempts to rule, But makes herself a mark for ridicule, A laughing-stock and sham. Article of greatest use is to her then Something worn distinctively by men— A pair of pants will do. Thus she will plainly demonstrate That Nature made a great mistake In sexing such a shrew. — ...

How cities plan future mobility. A study by the Technische Universität München and MAN Engineering the Future – since 1758.

The United States is in the midst of a technological revolution, driven in large part by rapid advances in microelectronics. There has been much speculation about the impacts of the “information superhighway” on society as a whole, but surprisingly little is known about the potential effects of this technology revolution on the spatial distribution of jobs and people either broadly or in urban ...

Schrödinger’s view of life and his suggestion that “Organization is maintained by extracting 'order' from the environment” in fact anticipated the notion of order out of chaos that has become the motto of complexity theory. And indeed, three decades later, in December 8, 1977, Ilia Prigogine (1977) in his Nobel lecture demonstrated that in certain circumstances matter too behave as if it has li...

Is there an ideal city form? As cities proliferate worldwide this has become a central question underpinning sustainable development and economic opportunity for billions of people. We provide extensive empirical evidence, mathematical analysis and a set of theorems to show that the answer to this question is topological, not geometric. We show that cities can be decomposed into two types of ne...

Urbanization and economic development are closely intertwined. While urbanization per se does not cause development, sustained economic development does not occur without urbanization. This paper starts with a “primer” on what we know about the conceptual and empirical links between development and urbanization. Empirical evidence is partly based on historical experience in developed countries ...