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Makki MS 《GeoJournal》1986,13(2):111-118
The aim of this paper 3s to study the development of population weights for regions and urban centres in Saudi Arabia through the period 1962–1974. In order to achieve this aim some non-parametric statistical rules have been used such as rank-size rule and the four-city index. The results show non-balanced distribution of population on both regional and urban scales. The concentration of people in urban centres is more pronounced than the concentration in regions. This is due to internal and external movement of population towards largesized urban centres. The paper recommends that the official authorities should give more consideration to economic and service development in rural and urban areas that are retreating in ranking and decreasing in population. 相似文献
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Bolivia is a country with high levels of poverty and inequality among its peoples and regions. For the nation and its urban
and rural areas, trends in the social and spatial distribution of poverty (and extreme poverty) are identified from 1976 to
2003 using UBN data with minor support where appropriate from poverty lines. The main survey between 1992 and 2001 uses composite
and selected UBN to track detailed poverty change for the country’s nine departments, its ten largest cities and a selection
of other smaller urban and rural municipalities. Because of rising background increases in population in the various surveyed
administrative units, many instances of relative reductions in poverty are accompanied by rising absolute increases. Marked
spatial variations in poverty and development in the country over the last several decades are identified as the main driver
for the country’s quickening pace of rural–urban migration. As a result, the paper concludes by assessing two different but
closely related views. One investigation tests the notion that because more poor people have been living in Bolivia’s cities
than in its rural areas since the mid to late 1990s, rapid rural–urban migration has simply shifted the locus of poverty from
the countryside to the cities in a process called, the ‘urbanisation of poverty.’ A second, more challenging, investigation
assesses the view that the flow of poor rural people to the better serviced urban areas of Bolivia has actually acted to alleviate
national poverty levels. 相似文献
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Understandings of community in urban–rural fringe locations in Ireland are explored in this paper. As a specific space at
the interface between the urban and the rural the fringe incorporates processes of rapid physical, social, and demographic
change. These give rise to a range of complex and often competing dynamics, that impact on people and place in a variety of
ways. Among the main preoccupations and concerns in these rapidly evolving fringe locations are those relating to what can
broadly be described as ‘quality of life’. How this concept is understood across different groups situated within the spatial
setting of the fringe, and how it influences the development of a sustainable community there, are central to this discussion.
Drawing on household interviews from four case-study locations surrounding Galway City, Ireland, this paper examines how quality
of life is experienced across a range of social and spatial dimensions that relate to these locations, and the extent to which
they provide a common set of interests around which community may be built. From a wider knowledge perspective, it contributes
to debates about how the concept of community provides explanatory power regarding the way in which individuals are associated
with one another on the basis of a set of shared interests or concerns within a particular spatial setting. 相似文献
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Dr. David King 《GeoJournal》1988,16(2):201-209
Most towns in Papua New Guinea are small and the hierarchy comprises many isolated outstations and small towns. As a response
to changes in economic policy the largest towns are growing rapidly at the expense of the small service centres. Changes in
the population structure of these large towns have resulted in high rates of natural increase, while rural urban migration
is steadily bringing in newcomers, to face urban unemployment and a lack of adequate housing. A secondary urban problem arises
from the colonial legacy of urban zoning, which exacerbates the housing shortage and has created artifical socioeconomic residential
areas. Although social differences are relatively small, the policy of economic growth will increase the gap between rich
and poor, while urban unemployment and lack of housing have reached a crisis level in the rapidly growing big towns. 相似文献
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Conclusion Many elements contributed to the urban expansion of Shanghai, but port expansion, industrial growth, population change and construction of new housing quarters were the main. Moreover, they were interdependent and interactive. This article summarizes these influences, on urban spatial expansion in Shanghai. It will be helpful in further approaches to this issue. 相似文献
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Rural gentrification in Catalonia, Spain: A case study of migration, social change and conflicts in the Empordanet area 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
Miguel Solana-Solana 《Geoforum》2010,41(3):508-517
The intensity of rural depopulation in Catalonia has diminished since the 1980s. New population growth patterns are occurring in rural areas, basically due to immigration. Although there has been a certain awareness of the magnitude of this process and its territorial distribution, little is known about the protagonists in this immigration and the impact on rural municipalities. Results are presented from a study of the immigration process in a group of rural inland municipalities close to the Costa Brava, a Mediterranean coastal region with extensive tourism. The great beauty of the landscape and the existence of housing stock that is being abandoned but remains desirable have led to a population influx from Catalonia’s large urban areas, especially Barcelona, purchasing these homes as a primary or secondary residence.This has led to rehabilitation of the housing stock, but also to higher housing prices and the resulting exodus of the young local population that cannot afford them; a potential source of conflict between the local population and the newcomers. The study is based on census data and statistical records, as well as extensive fieldwork, including interviews with local residents, newcomers and key informants. 相似文献
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Daniel Todd 《Geoforum》1983,14(1):45-54
Rural development tends to be viewed as a facet of urban development in the sense that rural areas are expected to be recipients of positive urban spill-overs. To that end, two concepts have been formulated: growth centre theory and the Industrial-Urban Hypothesis (IUH). The former has been beset by conceptual problems whereas the simpler IUH has not been tested in a Canadian context. This paper tests the basic IUH proposition that the general level of rural development is an inverse function of urban accessibility. Findings suggest that the IUH is more attuned to the impacts of smaller centres rather than the region's metropolitan centre. However, introduction of an exogenous element based on ethnic variations in rural settlements indicate how socializing factors work to modify the IUH concept. 相似文献
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This paper focuses on the use of the provision of public housing in Israel as a political measure, in addition to its benign role of providing shelter. In the early stages of Jewish settlement in the country the Right controlled most towns and cities, while Labour was engaged in building a rural base. As urban growth attracted many of the newly arrived workers, Labour found it necessary to become politically active in the urban sphere. This has been done through the provision of a variety of services, among which was the provision of housing with a view to recruiting their political support. Two strategies were adopted. One was the penetration of existing towns by building public housing estates, the other was the establishment of new urban centres. These strategies have enabled Labour to attain local political hegemony in many cities, but while the provision of public housing proved to be as effective political tool in the short run, it has failed to secure a lasting impact. 相似文献
9.
Jianfa Shen 《Geoforum》1995,26(4):395-409
Economic reforms since the late 1970s have brought about significant changes in rural China. A large number of surplus rural labourers have been released from the agricultural sector and there has been a massive transition of rural residents from agricultural to non-agricultural employment. These changes will be analyzed by examining the changes in the employment structure of rural residents. Rural to urban migration is another important option for many rural labourers. The size of China's urban population and the scale of rural to urban migration continue to be an ‘enigma’ due to several changes in the definition of the urban population. Several data sources will be used to provide more realistic estimates of rural to urban migrations on a set of comparable though different bases. Data on the new entries into urban employment and the urban ‘non-agricultural population’ will be used to illustrate the scale of migration by rural residents to the formal urban sector. This may only record those migrants who have changed their registration status from ‘agricultural population’ to ‘non-agricultural population’ which is tightly controlled by the government. The 1990 Census data provide some evidence on the rural to urban migration by the registered ‘agricultural population’. The 1987 1% population sampling data will be used to analyze the actual migrations among cities, towns and counties over the period 1982–1987. It is found that town and county populations tended to move to towns at the intra-provincial level, but to cities at the inter-provincial level. Out-migrants from cities tended to move to cities at both the intra- and inter-provincial levels. 相似文献
10.
In low-lying areas of urban and suburban regions in Asia, the use of landfill has allowed urban land use to encroach onto watery landforms, such as back marshes, which were formerly used as rice fields. To improve understanding of the associations between land-use patterns and landfill development, we carried out a case study in the urban fringe of Metro Manila in the Philippines. We examined landfill volume derived from land-use change using GIS, and field surveyed qualitative aspects of the landfill used. We calculated the rate of application of landfill in low-lying housing development areas to be 5.0 × 103 m3 km?2 year?1, most of which consisted of offsite disposal of construction waste or crushed rock produced by urban development and renewal on the adjoining uplands. The flow of fill material from offsite sources to onsite landfill development areas was on the basis of individual agreements between suppliers and developers. 相似文献
11.
Awan Yath Yath 《GeoJournal》1995,36(1):93-101
The magnitude of housing demand and the inadequacy of public housing in most cities of the Third World have led to the emergence of types of housing which, while having different names, are classified as squatter settlements. In Khartoum, the expansion of squatter settlements has mainly been due to political processes that resulted in dramatic urban needs generated by uneven development, widespread migration, demographic growth and income inequalities. In the recent years, however, rural recession, civil war, drought, floods and famine combined to turn the Sudanese capital city into a reception centre for a considerable number of displaced people from areas affected. Here the bulk of the displaced persons found accommodation in huts that they built themselves. The government responded to such a situation by embarking on a large scale deportation programme. Attempts to bargain, resist, or to cope with the political system, on the part of the displaced people, proved to be in vain. Available estimates suggest that at least two thirds of the two or more million migrants who moved to Khartoum during the last sixteen years, have now been forcibly driven back to rural areas. 相似文献
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Encouraged by government policies to promote city centre living and to increase residential land use on brownfield sites, there has been considerable repopulation of the city centre. Through detailed small-area census analysis of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Swansea, supplemented by household surveys and key informant interviews, the research points to a range of population characteristics and changes occurring in the British city centre. Certain characteristics such as a high proportion of lone person households, fewer children and low car ownership remain fairly consistent. However, substantial population expansion affirms that a large part of the population is “new”. Between 1991 and 2001, men came to outnumber women, and each of the city centres saw a relative expansion of its young adult population. The new residents have a higher appreciation than longer term residents of proximity to work and leisure facilities, and of the stylishness of city centre living. Most of the new residents rent their accommodation, generally in flats, and the predominance of renting is associated with a transient attitude to city centre residence among the new population. Socio-economic evidence indicates a striking rise in social status or gentrification in all the city centres investigated, especially where high status private housing developments encourage the trend. With policies promoting residential development, the city centre is becoming increasingly socially exclusive. 相似文献
13.
The territorial dimension of the digital divide is usually considered as a phenomenon that penalizes the peripheral regions,
especially in terms of regional economic development. Taking into account the territorial networking of ICT (Information &
Communication Technologies) infrastructures—particularly high-speed networks—provides what is probably the principal reason
for such a perception. This is particularly true considering that the most-peripheral regions and those with the smallest
population densities are also the poorest in terms of ICT infrastructures. In Western countries, however, the digital divide
is no longer the result of network-related problems. Nowadays, the issue of the skills required to adequately exploit the
potential of ICT is at the forefront. Yet this evolution is likely to lead to an inversion of the inequalities between the
centre and the periphery, as populations without such skills—recent immigrants, the unemployed, the illiterate, people with
little education or on low incomes and other socially marginalized people—are generally concentrated in urban centres. Consequently,
the priority for reducing inequalities of access to ICT resources is no longer the provision of high-performance ICT infrastructures
for peripheral regions, but rather the implementation of continuing education and social action policies within the urban
centres. 相似文献
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Exploring the attractions of city centre living: evidence and policy implications in British cities 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The British city centre has been the focus of dynamic housing development and repopulation strategies as a key dimension of the government's urban renaissance programme. Through large scale interview surveys in the provincial city centres of Bristol and Swansea, this paper explores the positive and negative features of city centre living, and how these vary amongst a range of social and physical characteristics. The findings suggest that the practical and mundane attractions of city centre living are more important than the more widely publicised lifestyle and cultural attractions of the city centre commonly emphasised in the gentrification literature. Moreover, the research points to differences in attitudes between age groups, with younger adults placing greater value on the range of social and cultural activities in the city centre, whilst older people express high levels of satisfaction with the attractiveness of the environment. A number of policy implications emerge to encourage inclusive marketing strategies within the continued urban renaissance, particularly to challenge the negative perceptions and promote the varied attractions of city centre living to a mix of social groups. 相似文献
15.
Rural diversification in Croatia is well advanced because many rural families have been able to find work in secondary and
tertiary activities without the need to migrate to the towns. Many rural settlements have now attained an urban character
although there are regional variations, including a contrast between the continental zone with a relatively high level of
commitment to agriculture and the coastal areas, with pronounced ‘deagrarisation’ where the ports and tourist resorts are
well developed and the natural resource conditions for agriculture are poor. These variations are examined at the municipality
level with reference to two key indicators: the share of nonagricultural population and the share of workers in the total
active population. Four categories of socio-economic transformation are recognised: more urbanised, urbanised, less urbanised
and rural. The main regional differences between the continental and coastal areas are confirmed with the latter showing a
relatively high level of socio-economic transformation through the prominence of more highly urbanised municipalities.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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The Apuseni Mountains, part of the Western Carpathians, are distinctive in cultural terms because of the highly dispersed
settlement patterns that have developed on the high erosion surfaces where the Moti people cleared the forests to allow for
an expansion of family farming in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These small ‘crang’ settlements remain, but the
population is declining in the face of limited employment opportunities and poor services. The question arises as to the most
appropriate rural development strategy for the region, following the communist period which encouraged centralisation through
the provision of housing and industry in key villages and new towns. The emphasis on private farming and the expansion of
tourism could protect the inherited cultural landscape but money must be found to improve rural services. There is also a
strong conservation movement which supports the establishment of a national park, but this could constrain development through
controls on grazing and woodcutting. Hence the dialogue continues to find the best compromise and the concept of a ‘natural
park’ is being discussed with such a reconciliation in mind.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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The urban centres of developing countries lack basic and adequate traffic data for urban transport studies. This paper builds a model for generating the required traffic data and calibrates the model with data from Barnsley, U.K., a medium-sized urban centre in the developed environment. The result indicates a good fit for intersection flow prediction and a rather poor fit for link flow prediction. Some methods of improving the fit are identified, and the usefulness of the model in intra-urban traffic studies is discussed. 相似文献
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E. Sokari-George Dr. 《GeoJournal》1990,22(1):93-98
Conclusion Urban and rural development arek inextricably related, that regional planning can play important roles as catalyst for agriculture
and rural development; and that a system of growth centres and/or agropolitan policy which can be important in achieving economic
growth with social equity, will be far more influential. Again if the National Planning Authority, Regional Planning Agency
and the policy of growth centre in the rural areas of the recommended regions is pursued, it will not only increase agricultural
productivity or a path to agricultural transformation for deleterious effects of migration to corporate farming but also could,
over time help to reduce the pressure on the urban areas by providing counter-magnets to migration and we envisage, will bring
about a national regional planning budget which should be operated on yearly basis. 相似文献
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Johan G. Borchert 《Geoforum》1975,6(3-4)
This article analyses the relationship between internal migration patterns and regional economic development in present-day Albania. Using demographic data migration figures were calculated for the period 1965–1971. These figures indicate that there is a Strong tendency for migration from the peripheral areas to the industrial triangle of Durrës-Tirana-Elbasan, and to the fertile farming area of the coastal lowlands which used to be malarial swamps. Present government policy however is directing growth away from the largest centres towards both the smaller centres and rural areas. Recent aims have been to achieve as even a spread of population and economic activity as possible. 相似文献
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Ulrike Sailer-Fliege 《GeoJournal》1999,49(1):7-16
The development of the post-socialist city has already been characterised by substantial restructuring processes. Particular
emphasis should be drawn to the take-off of the tertiary sector and the comprehensive blight phenomena in the previously industrial
areas. The urban housing sector has witnessed increasing housing affordability problems, a marginalisation of communal housing
stock, an increase of segregation and an intensification of the decay in the old housing stock. In all East Central European
states the spatial development processes of industry and services within the cities basically show clear parallels to the
pattern of urban development in continental Europe. In Hungary housing policy, tenure structure and the level of segregation
already show relatively closer similarities to the neoliberal, Anglo–American pattern of development. The other ECE states
show closer similarities to the corporatist welfare states of continental Europe. As far as medium-term urban development
in East Central Europe is concerned, it is to be assumed that – regardless of the specific path of further development – overall
solutions shall not be found for the fundamental problems which are the legacy of the socialist era – the decay of old housing
stock, large scale derelict industrial areas and the extent and deficiencies of high-rise housing estates.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献