John Friedmann is Professor Emeritus at UCLA and currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. His most recent book, co-edited with Mike Douglass, is Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age (Wiley,l998). His current work revolves around the theory of citizenship, metropolitan governance, urbanization in Asia, and the problem ofrepresentation in planning....

The Smart City concept arises from the need to provide more intelligent and optimized applications for the development of future urban centers. Traffic monitoring including surveillance is becoming a problem as cities are getting larger and crowded with vehicles. Intelligent video applications for outdoor scenarios need for good quality, stable and robust signal in every moment or climate condi...

INTRODUCTION An effective Emergency Medical Service system does not exist in Nepal. For an effective EMS system to be developed the scale of the problem and the existing facilities need to be studied. METHODS Prospective observational study was carried out on 1964 patients attending Emergency Department at Patan Hospital during one month period of September 2006. The patients were specificall...

S ince the 1990s, China has undergone astonishing economic growth, and its extensive urbanization has become one of the most striking development signatures anywhere in the world. With the world's largest urban population, China's urbanization experience provides meaningful insights on future urban development in other countries. 1 Because China has an extremely low per-capita land area, constr...