Urban Dystopias: Cities That Exclude

Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities

Ecological research targeting sustainable urban landscapes needs to include findings and methods from many lines of ecological research, such as the link between biodiversity and ecosystem function, the role of humans in ecosystems, landscape connectivity, and resilience. This paper reviews and highlights the importance of these issues for sustainable use of ecosystem services, which is argued ...

Designing Digital Communities that Transform Urban Life: Introduction to the Special Section on Digital Cities

9 Skilled Cities and Efficient Urban Transport

This chapter surveys the fundamental forces that drive the formation and size of cities. We discuss the different types of agglomeration economies generated by a dense web of activities, with special emphasis on the benefits associated with the clustering of highly skilled workers. The distribution of activities within cities results from the trade-off between commuting and housing costs. We sh...

Urban Decline in Rust-Belt Cities

Many Rust-Belt cities have seen almost half their populations move from inside the city borders to the surrounding suburbs and elsewhere since the 1970s. As populations shifted, neighborhoods changed—in their average income, educational profi le, and housing prices. But the shift did not happen in every neighborhood at the same rate. Recent research has uncovered some of the patterns characteri...

Changing spectrum of malnutrition in urban cities.

We read with interest the recent study published in [1] regarding persistent levels of undernutrition in city like Chandigarh. The authors have concluded that the prevalence of underweight among under-five year old children remained almost stagnant in the last one decade from 51.6% (1997) to 50.4% (2007). We would like to point out that sampling frame and design of the published study pose limi...