Government of “Rurban” Areas

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-313
Author(s):  
John A. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Jackson County ◽  
Growing Pains ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Genesee County ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Wide Population

Michigan has a metropolitan problem, but by no means confined to the one area of Detroit, commonly thought of as Michigan's only metropolitan region. Other Michigan cities also have “growing pains” as their populations sprawl beyond their formal boundaries. The Motor City continues to suffer from this ailment, but the disease has taken a new form. Not only are the urbanites moving to the suburbs, but the suburbanites are moving to the rural sections. In the smaller cities, the ever-widening circle of dispersion has been straightway from the core city to the unincorporated township. Here the migrating urbanites have not first formed incorporated suburbs, but have established themselves as that new specie, “rurbanites,” at once dependent on the unincorporated township for governmental services.The 1940 census indicates that Michigan cities are losing population, but that considerable growth is going on beyond their city limits. Second-class cities in Michigan display what is undoubtedly happening to corresponding cities in other states as well. While this state has in Detroit one of the much-studied and publicized metropolitan regions, it has forty-two cities with between 10,000 and 175,000 people. Notwithstanding a state-wide population gain of 8.3 per cent in the last decade, 30 per cent of the state's cities of 10,000 or more lost inhabitants, whereas only four counties out of eighty-three showed a decrease. It is significant, however, that the counties which underwent the most rapid growth were those with large urban centers. For example, Genesee county gained 7.5 per cent, whereas it county seat, Flint, which is also the third largest city in the state, lost two per cent. Jackson county showed an increase of nearly one per cent, while the city of the same name lost 11 per cent.

Urban sustainability and counter-sustainability: Spatial contradictions and conflicts in policy and governance in the Freiburg and Calgary metropolitan regions

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (11) ◽  
pp. 2241-2262
Author(s):  
Byron Miller ◽  
Samuel Mössner
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Tax Regimes ◽  
Relational Framework ◽  
The City

Drawing on empirical research carried out in the metropolitan regions of Freiburg, Germany, and Calgary, Canada, we reposition the sustainability policies of municipalities within a wider regional and relational framework. This perspective reveals significant epistemological blind spots in the localist and non-relational ontologies that undergird much of the urban sustainability discourse. While the city of Freiburg has garnered world-wide attention for its multi-faceted initiatives and achievements in sustainable urban development, these initiatives have yet to be coherently addressed in the wider Freiburg metropolitan region, leading to a variety of policies and practices in the hinterland that run counter to Freiburg’s ‘green city’ objectives. In a parallel fashion, the city of Calgary incorporated significant sustainability principles in its 2009 Master Development Plan and Transportation Plan –‘Plan-It’– yet such principles have not been taken up on a regional scale. Despite substantial differences in size and developmental history, both cities exhibit a profound disconnection from their regional contexts with regard to sustainable development policies and politics. In both metropolitan regions, conventional growth politics are still paramount. A significant conflict emerges between ‘sustainable’ central cities seeking a ‘sustainability fix’ to their fiscal, environmental and quality of life problems, and more remote jurisdictions seeking to attract investment through low tax regimes and limited development regulation – what we label a ‘counter-sustainability fix’. These contrasting and dialectically related policies have substantial consequences for the social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, calling into question policies that promote ‘sustainability in one place’.

scholarly journals Análise da Evolução da Linha de Costa da Região Metropolitana Sul da Cidade do Recife – PE, Brasil

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1645
Author(s):  
Gilberto Sabino Dos Santos Junior ◽  
Maria Das Neves Gregório ◽  
Marcia Cristina De Souza Matos Carneiro ◽  
Eduardo Paes Barreto ◽  
Grenda Juara Alves Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
City Government ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Sediment Removal ◽  
Engineering Technique ◽  
Opposite Process ◽  
Shoreline Displacement ◽  
Sediment Transfer ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

O processo de erosão costeira vem afetando de forma contínua as praias do município do Jaboatão dos Guararapes, município da Região Metropolitana do Recife – PE. A ocupação desordenada ao longo dos últimos 42 anos tem agravado o processo erosivo nas praias deste município. A prefeitura em parceria com o governo do estado implantou a técnica de engenharia costeira conhecida como transpasse de sedimentos, engorda da praia, para contenção da erosão, mas que vem apresentando retirada de sedimentos, mesmo após a engorda. Por esta razão este trabalho teve o objetivo de analisar a variabilidade multitemporal da linha de costa do município de Jaboatão dos Guararapes.  O ano de 1974 foi utilizado como referência para a realização do cálculo da taxa de deslocamento da linha de costa para os anos de 1981, 1997, 2010, 2013 e 2016, realizado no programa Arcgis 10.1. A área de estudo foi dividida em 4 (quatro) setores de sul para o norte. Foi observada uma relevante retrogradação para o Setor 1 (praia de Barra de Jangada) entre 1974 e 1981, apresentando estabilização entre 1981 e 1997. Já no Setor 2 (praia de Candeias), houve progradação no período de 1974 a 2010. Em 2013 ocorreu uma grande progradação da linha de costa, devido a execução da técnica de transpasse de sedimentos, sendo o Setor 1 o que obteve maior deslocamento da linha em relação aos anos anteriores. Para o ano de 2015 ocorreu o processo inverso, ou seja, uma grande retrogradação em toda extensão do litoral de Jaboatão, principalmente na praia de Barra de Jangada (Setor 1). A linha de costa do ano 2016 apresentou um grande recuo, apresentando semelhança em diferentes trechos nos 4 setores em relação a linha do ano de 1997. Analysis of the Evolution of the Coastline of the Metropolitan Region Aouth of the City of Recife – PE, Brasil  A B S T R A C TThe process of coastal erosion has been continuously affecting the Jaboatão dos Guararapes’s beaches, city of the Metropolitan Region of Recife - PE. The disorderly occupation over the last 42 years has aggravated the erosive process in the beaches of this city. The city government in partnership with the state government implemented the coastal engineering technique known as sediment transfer, fattening the beach to contain erosion, but which has been showing sediment removal, even after fattening. For this reason, this work aimed to analyze the multitemporal variability of the coastline of the city of Jaboatão dos Guararapes. The year 1974 was used as a reference for the calculation of the shoreline displacement rate for the years 1981, 1997, 2010, 2013 and 2016, performed in the program Arcgis 10.1. The study area was divided into 4 (four) sectors from south to north. A large retrogradation was observed for Sector 1 (Barra de Jangada beach) between 1974 and 1981, showing stabilization between 1981 and 1997. In Sector 2 (Candeias beach), there was progression from 1974 to 2010. In 2013 there was a great progradation of the shoreline, due to the execution of the sediment transfer technique, being Sector 1 the one that had the largest displacement of the line in relation to previous years. For 2015, the opposite process occurred, that is, a major retrogradation in the entire length of the Jaboatão coast, especially in Barra de Jangada beach (Sector 1). The shoreline of the year 2016 showed a large setback, showing similarity in different stretches in the 4 sectors compared to the 1997 line.Key words. Sediment transfer, shoreline, erosion, fattening. 

scholarly journals Public Pedagogy and the City

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Shavard
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper seeks to contribute to the interdisciplinary discussion of the all-too-often- contested concept of multicultural education and, specifically, the way it is conceptualized and put into practice in city libraries, museums, cultural centers, and other emerging sites of public education. As the formal education system has so far been seen as the main venue for research on multicultural education, to date there is relatively little empirical inquiry exploring how the ideas of multicultural education play out outside the school settings. The study aims to address this gap and explore the educators’ perspective, the views of those who set the agenda for educational programs. Based on 10 in-depth interviews with the educators in Oslo and Moscow, two cities with extensive networks of public education, the study sheds light on how multicultural education is interpreted in this often-overlooked context. Drawing on the transformative approaches in multicultural education on the one hand and the concept of public pedagogy on the other, the discussion uncovers some of the potentials and limitations intrinsic to the practices of multicultural education in the settings of public education. 

Building the Road for the BMW: Culture, Vision, and the Extended Metropolitan Region of Jakarta

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1617-1635 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Leaf
Keyword(s):  
Urban Economy ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
The Road ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Asian Urbanization ◽  
The City

Recent writings on Asian urbanization have stressed how the continuing outward expansion of the largest metropolitan regions has been eroding the long-standing distinction between rural and urban, particularly in terms of land use and economic structure. In this paper I examine the cultural implications of this phenomenon by looking at recent changes in the extended metropolitan region of Jakarta, Indonesia. Over the course of the 1980s, urbanization trends in Jakarta's periphery have resulted in a greatly expanded interface between urban and rural components of Indonesian society. Although this has created the opportunity for much broader popular participation in the urban economy, it may also be fostering a new perception within Indonesian society—that the primary social dichotomy lies not between the city and the countryside but between socioeconomic classes.

Exploring Subbordia – the impact of suburbanisation in cross-border metropolitan regions. The case study of Szczecin and its German hinterland

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Barthel ◽  
Ewelina Barthel
Keyword(s):  
Border Region ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Connected Area ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Narratives

Abstract This paper focuses on the largely unexamined phenomenon of the developing trans-national suburban area west of Szczecin. Sadly the local communities in this functionally connected area struggle with national planning policies that are unsuitable for the region. The paper examines the impact of those processes on the border region in general and on the localities in particular. The paper investigates the consequences for local narratives and the cohesive development of the Euroregion and what position Polish and German communities took to develop the region, even without the necessary planning support. The region has succeeded in establishing grass-roots planning mechanisms which have helped to create a metropolitan-region working from the bottom up.

Evaluation of Road Utilisation as Space For Holding Social Ceremonies in Indigenous Residential Area of Ogbomoso, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (March 2018) ◽  
Author(s):  
S.A Okanlawon ◽  
O.O Odunjo ◽  
S.A Olaniyan
Keyword(s):  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Noisy Environment ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Core ◽  
Local Roads ◽  
Strict Enforcement ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

This study examined Residents’ evaluation of turning transport infrastructure (road) to spaces for holding social ceremonies in the indigenous residential zone of Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria. Upon stratifying the city into the three identifiable zones, the core, otherwise known as the indigenous residential zone was isolated for study. Of the twenty (20) political wards in the two local government areas of the town, fifteen (15) wards that were located in the indigenous zone constituted the study area. Respondents were selected along one out of every three (33.3%) of the Trunk — C (local) roads being the one mostly used for the purpose in the study area. The respondents were the residents, commercial motorists, commercial motorcyclists, and celebrants. Six hundred and forty-two (642) copies of questionnaire were administered and harvested on the spot. The Mean Analysis generated from the respondents’ rating of twelve perceived hazards listed in the questionnaire were then used to determine respondents’ most highly rated perceived consequences of the practice. These were noisy environment, Blockage of drainage by waste, and Endangering the life of the sick on the way to hospital; the most highly rated reasons why the practice came into being; and level of acceptability of the practice which was found to be very unacceptable in the study area. Policy makers should therefore focus their attention on strict enforcement of the law prohibiting the practice in order to ensure more cordial relationship among the citizenry, seeing citizens’ unacceptability of the practice in the study area.

THE SUBURBANISATION OF THE KUALA LUMPUR METROPOLITAN REGION

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamalunlaili Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The Past ◽  
Klang Valley ◽  
The City

The Klang Valley has been experiencing rapid urbanisation especially during the past two decades. The area has expanded to become a larger entity known as the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan Region (KLMR). But this development comes at the expense of Kuala Lumpur. The city had consistently recorded net-out migration during the period. This development has consequences on the urban fabric of the city and can lead to the problem

Emotional Cities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Ben Prestel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Dynamic Transformation ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Between 1860 and 1910, Berlin and Cairo went through a period of dynamic transformation. During this period, a growing number of contemporaries in both places made corresponding arguments about how urban change affected city dwellers’ emotions. In newspaper articles, scientific treatises, and pamphlets, shifting practices, such as nighttime leisure, were depicted as affecting feelings like love and disgust. Looking at the ways in which different urban dwellers, from psychologists to revelers, framed recent changes in terms of emotions, this book reveals the striking parallels between the histories of Berlin and Cairo. In both cities, various authors associated changes in the city with such phenomena as a loss of control over feelings or the need for a reform of emotions. The parallels in these arguments belie the assumed dissimilarity between European and Middle Eastern cities during the nineteenth century. Drawing on similar debates about emotions in Berlin and Cairo, the book provides a new argument about the regional compartmentalization of urban history. It highlights how the circulation of scientific knowledge, the expansion of empires, and global capital flows led to similarities in the pasts of these two cities. By combining urban history and the history of emotions, this book proposes an innovative perspective on the emergence of different, yet comparable cities at the end of the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals An Online Reputation Analysis of the Tourism Industry in Marbella: A Preliminary Study on Open Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
María Jesús Carrasco-Santos ◽  
Antonio Manuel Ciruela-Lorenzo ◽  
Juan Gabriel Méndez Pavón ◽  
Carmen Cristófol Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Full Data ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Specific Advice ◽  
Sociodemographic Profile ◽  
The One ◽  
Online Reputation ◽  
The City

This research analyzed the online reputation of Marbella as a tourist destination and the profiles of the reviewers according to sociodemographic characteristics. A correlational, quantitative research technique was used in this study based on the manual extraction of more than 4000 reviews generated on TripAdvisor. The data used in this study were collected from the TripAdvisor website, taking, as a sample, tourists who had visited the city in the last three years. Ratings that did not provide full data on the variables were excluded. The findings show that Marbella is considered a luxury shopping destination. The preliminary conclusions allow us to generalize about the sociodemographic profile of its tourists. The findings of the study will provide valuable information for Marbella’s Destination Management Organization (DMO). On the one hand, this study highlights the importance of ranking the attractions of the city to create better communication strategies and enhance the appeal of those attractions that receive the best ratings, establishing the true vocation of Marbella as a tourist destination. On the other hand, it provides information on what tourists perceive to be negative elements, allowing the administration to create an improvement plan. The novelty of this research paper is that it delves into Marbella’s online reputation through an analysis of specific attractions’ ratings. Areas that require further attention in future research have been highlighted, along with specific advice on each attraction that contributes to the tourist offerings of the city.

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