â â  the present study attempts to investigate the urban hierarchy in iran between 1996-2006. the research method is content and statistical analysis. the necessity data were collected by documental method. in addition to the analysis and sorting of the data regarding the situation of iranian cities based on different models such as entropy ,ginny coefficients, urban concentration index, and ra...

A LONG-STANDING BELIEF in development studies holds that, on the whole, living conditions in developing countries are superior for residents of large cities than for persons living in smaller cities, towns, and villages. The concept of big cities as " islands of privilege " (Harrison 1982: 145) is fundamental to otherwise discrepant theories of modernization, dependency, world systems of cities...

EDITORIAL article Front. Sustain. Cities, 12 June 2023Sec. Cities in the Global South Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1204093

BACKGROUND Bicycle use has increased in some of France's major cities, mainly as a means of transport. Bicycle crashes need to be studied, preferably by type of cycling. Here we conduct a descriptive analysis. METHOD A road trauma registry has been in use in France since 1996, in a large county around Lyon (the Rhône, population 1.6 million). It covers outpatients, inpatients and fatalities. ...