The Case-Study in Investigation of Economic Change

1961 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
M. B. Padki
Keyword(s):  
Economic Change

scholarly journals TO WHAT EXTENT WE DO UNDERSTAND SMART CITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS INFLUENCING CITY SMARTNESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Skirmantė Mozūriūnaitė ◽  
Jolanta Sabaitytė
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Human Ecosystem ◽  
Robust Strategies

Todays large cities are continually evolving human ecosystem, delivering many services to citizens. The dramatic urbanisation processes and increasing numbers of the population in cities put many strains on city infrastructure and services. XXI century urbanisation issues require robust strategies and innovative planning for their future. Easily cities are characterised as smart or intelligent without regard to clear criteria or specification for a city. There are different opinions regarding smart cities, arguing that it may bring positive social and economic change, developed governance and human capital. However, these aspects are heavily achievable without eliminating the present discrepancy in planning. The purpose of the article is to clarify and identify the characteristics of smartness based on current scholar research. The qualitative study overview on integrative literature review and seven Baltic region cities case study explores possible characteristics, and various city dimension factors which can make a city smart.

scholarly journals Dereliction, decay and the problem of de-industrialization in Britain, c. 1968–1977

Urban History ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-256
Author(s):  
Aaron Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Urban Decay

AbstractDe-industrialization and the rise of the service sector have formed the basis of recent attempts to develop a new metanarrative of economic change in twentieth-century Britain. Their effects have been taken as writ through labour market statistics or aggregate measures of gross domestic product. However, by focusing on particular micro-economic spaces, a different story emerges. Using the inner areas of Liverpool as a case-study, this article shows how the city's social and economic problems were underwritten by the decline of the service sector, located around the port. By reading the effects of social and economic change through accounts of the physical environment, it demonstrates how urban decay and dereliction provided material resonance to Liverpool's economic decline. The city's landscape of urban decay and dereliction encompassed the infrastructure of everyday life – housing, roads and even trees – as well as that of economic activity, including the docks and warehouses. Taken together, this article shows how this landscape of urban decay and dereliction came to be constituted as an agent within Liverpool's continued economic decline in the 1970s rather than simply being a reflection of it.

Chelmsford during the industrial revolution, c.1790–1840

Urban History ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEIL RAVEN
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
History Of

Were England's old shire towns marginalized from the process of economic change during the period of the classical Industrial Revolution? A number of contributors to The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Vol. II make this claim, others emphasize the continued relevance of these towns in the emerging industrial age. With few investigations undertaken into the county towns of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, detailed case study analysis is needed. Using trade directories to profile Chelmsford's business community, this article presents evidence of a dynamic and prosperous urban economy.

A model of demographic and economic change in Roman Egypt after the Antonine plague

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 97-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Scheidel
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Ancient Economy ◽  
Internal Logic ◽  
Population Loss ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
Interpretative Framework

Demography has long been an essential ingredient of economic history. Students of the “ancient economy”, by contrast, have been late to give demography its due weight, and attempts to illustrate the potential relevance of population issues have been rare.1 This case-study of Roman Egypt aims to interpret empirical evidence of economic change with reference to demographic factors. I will argue that in the late 2nd c. A.D. a severe mortality crisis triggered price and wage shocks, and that during the following century the resultant population loss contributed to a decrease in the return on land and to a rise in the real wages of workers. I must stress at the outset that my model is deductive in so far as it predicts specific developments based on the internal logic of economic and demographic relationships as illustrated or corroborated by comparative evidence from other periods, and also in that it seeks to situate and explain disparate samples of empirical data within a preconceived unifying interpretative framework. In this it is my goal to provide the most economical and internally consistent explanation for the largest possible amount of the available data. No explanatory model can ever be “complete” or even “correct” to the extent that it would accommodate every single artifact of historical information, eliminate the need for complementary explanations, or fully disentangle the complexity of historical events; rather, it needs to be judged in terms of whether it exceeds (actual or potential) comparably comprehensive alternative models in its capacity to interpret and explain the evidence in a logically coherent and historically plausible fashion.

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