A              in the social sciences is that civic traditions are more salient in Western Europe than in Central and Eastern Europe. Among the scholars who subscribe to this view, there are many who have located the origin of the difference in the pre-modern past. Typically they see the appearance of autonomous cities in many parts of Western Europe in the late Middle Ages as the ...

This paper departs from prevailing ideas in current discussions about the critical role of advanced producer services for globalising cities. Saskia Sassen’s concept of global cities focuses on the function of advanced producer services and their role in the development of the central core of cities, i.e., the central business district (Sassen 1991, 1995). Peter Taylor and the research network ...

Urban centres in the world are undergoing facets of changes, these changes are evident in developing countries and more divergent because urban transformation in developing countries is often accompanied challenges which include traffic congestion, overcrowding, pollution and continuous land use succession. This phenomenon is not different with the central area of Minna, Nigeria. Since 2008 the...

While the A type cavea plan was created around middle of first century B.C. in Latium or Campania, B formed Central Italy, including Latium, third quarter same (Table 1). In early Augustan age, C appeared, probably Roman colonies. Although and types were only used West Mediterranean cities, is found more than half all ‘ Roman-typed theatres ’ throughout ancient world period making it most commo...

The relation between the household electrical consumption Y and population N for Chinese cities in 2006 has been investigated with the power law scaling form Y = A0N β . It is found that the Chinese cities should be divided into three categories characterized by different scaling exponent β. The first category, which includes the biggest and coastal cities of China, has the scaling exponent β >...

The tertiarization, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the urban landscape, but also in the income and social structures of cities. Industrialization, collective wage setting and the welfare state led to a stark reduction in income d...

BACKGROUND The socioeconomic and ethnic composition of urban neighbourhoods may affect mortality, but evidence on Central European cities is lacking. The aim of this study was to assess the associations between socioeconomic and ethnic neighbourhood indicators and the mortality of individuals aged 20-64 years old in the two biggest cities of the Slovak Republic. METHODS We obtained data on th...

This article describes a Hopfield-Tank model of the Euclidean traveling salesman problem (using Aiyer’s subspace approach) that incorporates a “fuzzy” interpretation of the rows of the activation array. This fuzzy approach is used to explain the network’s behavior. The fuzzy interpretation consists of computing the center of mass of the positive activations in each row. This produces real numbe...

BACKGROUND City-to-city differences have been reported for the increase in short-term mortality associated with a given increase in ozone concentration (ozone mortality coefficient). Although ozone concentrations are monitored at central outdoor locations, a large fraction of total ozone exposure occurs indoors. OBJECTIVES To clarify the influence of indoor exposure to ozone of outdoor origin...

The concept of polycentricity has gained significance in discussions on spatial development in Europe in recent years. This paper presents new evidence on polycentric city networks in Central-Eastern Europe based on selected results of the ESPON project POLYCE (Metropolisation and Polycentric Development in Central Europe). The authors discuss existing applications of the concept in the context...