SPECIAL AND ADDITIONAL TAXES FOR URBAN POPULATION IN THE SOUTH OF UKRAINE IN 1870–1917s

Kyiv Historical Studies ◽

10.28925/2524-0757.2020.1.8 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 60-66

Author(s):

Oleksandr Cheremisin

Keyword(s):

Urban Population ◽

The South ◽

Main Attention ◽

City Community ◽

Territorial Structure ◽

The City ◽

Civil Procedures

The study examines the peculiarities of taxation for urban population in the South of Ukraine in 1870–1917s, within the administrative and territorial structure. The introduction of the basic materials starts with the implementation of the City reform in 1870 in the Southern Ukrainian towns which determined main principles of decentralized self-government. Main attention of the paper is paid to the special and additional taxes for urban population, because they were not a subject of special researches on urban topics, but still they had an impact on a city community and activities of town self-government structures. 16 taxes from the list of all the taxes paid by urban population were compulsory and 20 taxes were referred to special ones making approximately a half of the budget of each town in total. The most important special and additional taxes for urban population were the following: charges for trade and industrial documents and patents; for tavern business; special taxes for entrepreneurs; for all merchant and industrial certificates and cards on trade and industrial objects; for different patents on factories producing beverages and spirit or wine products; charges for certificates in justice courts; taxes on horses; notarial charge; customs charges and taxes on civil procedures; charges for auction sales of movable property; half-kopeck charges; anchor charges; taxes on entertainments; taxes on the theatre and others. Finally, the paper draws conclusions about the peculiarities of taxation of urban population in the South of Ukraine in the 1870–1917s. It presents calculations showing that additional and special taxes for urban population made it possible for local budgets to make almost half of their profits. The study makes proposals on further research on a similar topic.

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Impact of the urban construction solutions on the safety population

Issues of Risk Analysis ◽

10.32686/1812-5220-2020-17-2-66-73 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 66-73

Author(s):

R. D. Oktyabrskiy

Keyword(s):

Traffic Congestion ◽

Urban Population ◽

Road Network ◽

Residential Development ◽

Emergency Situations ◽

Urban Construction ◽

Safety Population ◽

Peace And War ◽

The City

The article is devoted to the justification of the need to reduce the population density in the residential development of cities. The analysis of vulnerability of the urban population from threats of emergency situations of peace and war time, and also an assessment of provision of the city by a road network is given. Proposals have been formulated to reduce the vulnerability of the urban population in the long term and to eliminate traffic congestion and congestion — jams.

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PROBLEMS OF STRAY ANIMALS IN NOVOSIBIRSK

Interexpo GEO-Siberia ◽

10.33764/2618-981x-2020-4-2-85-91 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 85-91

Author(s):

Elena E. Rinchinova ◽

Diyara A. Takumova ◽

Irina I. Bochkareva

Keyword(s):

Urban Population ◽

Domestic Animals ◽

Legal Documents ◽

Quantitative Indicators ◽

The City

The article discusses main issues of organizing activities for the treatment of stray and street animals in the city of Novosibirsk. The important role of successful solving the problem of stray animals in ensuring environmental comfort and safety of the urban population is noted. Definitions of the concepts “stray animals” and “street animals” are given, the differences between them are emphasized. The main regulatory and legal documents governing the handling of stray and street animals are listed. The ways in which domestic animals get into a stray state are described briefly. The results of the collection and analysis of information on the activities of shelters for stray animals in Novosibirsk are described. The information on the quantitative indicators of the shelters are given. Conclusions on how to solve the problem of stray animals, relying on the latest regulations are drawn.

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Transnational Habitus and Sociability in the City: Zimbabwean Migrants’ Experiences in Johannesburg, South Africa

Gender Questions ◽

10.25159/2412-8457/6372 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Khangelani Moyo

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Urban Space ◽

Field Research ◽

The South ◽

Economic Networks ◽

Social Field ◽

Transnational Migrants ◽

Telephone Calls ◽

The City

Drawing on field research and a survey of 150 Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, this paper explores the dimensions of migrants’ transnational experiences in the urban space. I discuss the use of communication platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook as well as other means such as telephone calls in fostering the embedding of transnational migrants within both the Johannesburg and the Zimbabwean socio-economic environments. I engage this migrant-embedding using Bourdieusian concepts of “transnational habitus” and “transnational social field,” which are migration specific variations of Bourdieu’s original concepts of “habitus” and “social field.” In deploying these Bourdieusian conceptual tools, I observe that the dynamics of South–South migration as observed in the Zimbabwean migrants are different to those in the South–North migration streams and it is important to move away from using the same lens in interpreting different realities. For Johannesburg-based migrants to operate within the socio-economic networks produced in South Africa and in Zimbabwe, they need to actively acquire a transnational habitus. I argue that migrants’ cultivation of networks in Johannesburg is instrumental, purposive, and geared towards achieving specific and immediate goals, and latently leads to the development and sustenance of flexible forms of permanency in the transnational urban space.

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SPACES AND “NOT-SPACES” IN THE ZHADAN’S PROSE

LITERARY PROCESS methodology names trends ◽

10.28925/2412-2475.2019.1315 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Halyna Vypasniak

Keyword(s):

The Novel ◽

Main Attention ◽

Petrol Station ◽

Past Time ◽

Native Group ◽

The City

The paper analyses the symbolic features of spaces of Serhiy Zhadan’s prose. The main attention is paid to the novel “Voroshylovhrad” and the name of the city that doesn’t exist on the geographic maps anymore. Most spaces, such as a petrol station or abandoned airfield, could be defined as non-places (the term of M. Auge). For M. Auge it’s a type of space that shows the hybridity of our life. It’s basically the transit places. That is why there are no emotions connected with those non-places: no special stories, no narrative, that could create the place itself. The analysed novel by Serhiy Zhadan assures that even those places that weren’t noticed by most people and were treated by them as non-places, were really precious for others because of their personal memories and their past time, spent there. The paper also analyses the special features of the novel according M. Auge’s term the “anthropologic place”. It’s a place that represents an identity of native group that used to live there and shows the power of a connection between the place and its inhabitants. It’s also a place, where they can feel themselves and make their own rules. Those things make places like the petrol station, worth to be defended from intrusions.

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Optimization of Railway Connections in the South-Western Part of the Łódzkie Province, with the City of Łódź

Problemy Kolejnictwa - Railway Reports ◽

10.36137/1826e ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 169-179

Author(s):

Raczyński, Jan ◽

Pomykała, Agata ◽

Bużałek, Tomasz

Keyword(s):

The South ◽

The City

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Effects of COVID-19 on Urban Population Flow in China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18041617 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 1617 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xiaorong Jiang ◽

Wei Wei ◽

Shenglan Wang ◽

Tao Zhang ◽

Chengpeng Lu

Keyword(s):

Network Topology ◽

Traffic Control ◽

Urban Population ◽

Deep Understanding ◽

Clustering Coefficient ◽

Spatial Distance ◽

Structure Evolution ◽

Effective Distance ◽

Urban Hierarchy ◽

The City

The COVID-19 epidemic has become a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Thus, this sudden health incident has brought great risk and pressure to the city with dense population flow. A deep understanding of the migration characteristics and laws of the urban population in China will play a very positive role in the prevention and control of the epidemic situation. Based on Baidu location-based service (LBS) big data, using complex networks method and geographic visualization tools, this paper explores the spatial structure evolution of population flow network (PFN) in 368 cities of China under different traffic control situations. Effective distance models and linear regression models were established to analyze how the population flow across cities affects the spread of the epidemic. Our findings show that: (1) the scope of population flow is closely related to the administrative level of the city and the traffic control policies in various cities which adjust with the epidemic situation; The PFN mainly presents the hierarchical structure dominated by the urban hierarchy and the regional isolation structure adjacent to the geographical location.(2) through the analysis network topology structure of PFN, it is found that only the first stage has a large clustering coefficient and a relatively short average path length, which conforms to the characteristics of small world network. The epidemic situation has a great impact on the network topology in other stages, and the network structure tends to be centralized. (3) The overall migration scale of the whole country decreased by 36.85% compared with the same period of last year’s lunar calendar, and a further reduction of 78.52% in the nationwide traffic control stage after the festival. (4) Finally, based on the comparison of the effective distance and the spatial distance from the Wuhan to other destination cities, it is demonstrated that there is a higher correlation between the effective distance and the epidemic spread both in Hubei province and the whole country.

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New inscriptions from rural Cyrenaica

Libyan Studies ◽

10.1017/lis.2021.6 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Hamid Alshareef ◽

François Chevrollier ◽

Catherine Dobias-Lalou

Keyword(s):

The South ◽

The Dead ◽

The City

Abstract This paper publishes four inscriptions recently discovered by chance in the Cyrenaican countryside. Nos 1, 2 and 3 are in Greek. No. 1, from a tomb near Mgarnes, is a funerary stele inscribed in verse for a woman whose family was of some importance in the city of Cyrene. No. 2, from the same tomb, is an anthropomorphic stele for another woman, which is discussed on the basis of the dead person's name and the vicinity of the stone to the preceding stele. No. 3, from the middle plateau below Cyrene, is a marble panel with the epitaph of two women named Cornelia, increasing our knowledge of the Cornelii family in Cyrenaica. No. 4, from near Khawlan in the south-east, is a boundary stele in Latin mentioning the boundaries of the province; combining this with the evidence from another such stone from el-Khweimat, close to Gerdes el-Gerrari towards the south-east, also mentioning the provincial boundaries, we are now able to outline the Roman limes in the central part of Djebel Akhdar.

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Yeasts isolated from the South Saskatchewan, a polluted river

Canadian Journal of Microbiology ◽

10.1139/m70-178 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 16 (11) ◽

pp. 1051-1057 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

J. F. T. Spencer ◽

P. A. J. Gorin ◽

N. R. Gardner

Keyword(s):

Magnetic Resonance ◽

The South ◽

Polluted River ◽

Sewage System ◽

Minimum Numbers ◽

The City ◽

Magnetic Resonance Spectra

Minimum numbers of yeasts isolated from the Saskatchewan River in the summers of 1964 and 1965 ranged from 400 to 500 cells/liter upstream from the city of Saskatoon, to 4600 cells/liter immediately downstream. In the summer of 1968, a period of extremely low water, the counts were 150 cells/liter upstream from the city and 30 000 cells/liter downstream.Proton magnetic resonance spectra of the mannose-containing polysaccharides from representative cultures of the different species isolated were used as an aid in classification. Most of the species were asporogenous, and included representatives of the genera Candida, Trichosporon, Rhodotorula, Torulopsis, and Cryptococcus. Some species of Pichia, Saccharomyces, and Debaryomyces were isolated. The yeasts were mostly introduced into the river with the effluent from the Saskatoon sewage system.

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