City As Relationship

New City-Regional Governance in London: Redefining the Relationship between City and Region

Current academic discussions on economic development make a case for 'regional governance' in city-regions and stress the importance of 'appropriate' institutional and policy-making frameworks for effective, 'joined-up' government bringing together the interests of cities and their regional hinterlands. In England, as part of devolutionary processes, regions have experienced a resurgence in pol...

Meta city , Non - city , and Crime City : Remaking Hong Kong Gangster as Boston

Urban Score: Measuring Your Relationship with the City

Introduction In this paper, we introduce a new ambient display, personal steganography, and the concept of the urban score. Strictly speaking, the ambient display itself is a particular rendering of a value of the same name. As we will explain, the two are intricately linked. This ambient display does not convey stock prices, bus schedules, remind you to buy milk, or any other such useful bits;...

Relationship between health providers and patients in Mexico City.

OBJECTIVE To assess quality of the relationship between inpatients and health providers. METHODS A qualitative study was carried out in a tertiary care hospital in the Mexico City, Mexico, between February and July 2005. In-depth interviews were conducted with 40 inpatients. The following categories of analysis were used to explore the respondent's perception of care: attitudes and actions of...

Redeeming the City: Exploring the Relationship between Church and Metropolis