A name cannot change the city and our relationship with places. However, new terms for now-nameless spaces will help to change people’s perception and their capability of seeing what they have never seen before. The geographer’s taxonomic effort to re-designate urban places and typologies involves a political and ideological content. Most urban spaces are unmanageable because they fit neither w...

Abstract There are only little doubts that territorial competition related to attracting new investments is getting increasingly severe. This closely connected with the wide spectrum of location factors bear economic as well social and environmental dimensions. While some these barely manageable, majority them can be actively shaped via policies different kinds scales. Not surprisingly, intense...

This study presents research findings to inform the design and development of innovative mobile services aiming to enable collocated people to interact with each other in public urban places. The main goal of this research is to provide applications and deliver guidelines to positively influence the user experience of different public urban places during everyday urban life. This study describe...

TT is not easy to allocate India's national income between the urban and rural sectors nor the change in their respective magnitudes over the ten year period. Fortunately, the two terminal points of our period coincide wi th the decennial Census and it is possible to make a somewhat rough estimate of the relevant magnitudes. There are however differences in definit ion of the urban area between...

Features of the physical environment have an impact on the human behaviour. Thus, planners and policymakers around the world should aim at providing environments that are perceived as being of good quality, in which the residents enjoy spending time and moving around in. It is widely acknowledged that urban environmental quality associates with well-being, but there is currently very little res...

Understanding the dynamics by which urban areas attract visitors is significant for urban development in cities. In addition, identifying services that relate to highly attractive districts is useful to make policies regarding the placement of such places. Thus, we present a framework for classifying districts in cities by their attractiveness to visitors, and relating Points of Interests (POIs...