Regional Restructuring and Urban Regimes:

The Analysis and Explanation of Regional-Urban Development of Chabahar City Emphasizing on Globalization Approach

The globalization and urban development concepts are closely linked to each other. However, all cities around the world are not affected same by globalization, each one has its spatial and reciprocal international-local action. The international changes of economy, culture, and politics have huge effects on restructuring of cities around the world. The present study as a descriptive-analytical ...

Rapidly Changing Dynamics of Urbanization in China; Escalating Regional Inequalities and Urban Management Problems

A multitude of factors; tremendous urbanization after the economic reforms of 1978, particularly the open door policy, foreign direct investment, industrialization in the last two decades and globalization have shaken the dynamics of Chinese cityscape, especially in the coastal areas. Level of urbanization is expected to reach 50 percent of the total population, which was less than 20 percent i...

Pre-industrial human and environment interactions in northern Peru during the late Holocene

The result of long-term environmental and human interaction is a variety of potential human responses to major natural crises: population aggregation or dispersal, changes in economic strategies and landuse patterns, restructuring of social organization, increase in the incidence of con ict and warfare, and, in some instances, urban abandonment and cultural collapse. In the context of pre-indu...

The Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment in Regional Planning and Practice: Sahand Region

Regionalization of the Iowa State University Extension System: Lessons Learned by Key Administrators

The cyclical economic downturn in the United States has forced many Extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. The Cooperative Extension System (CES), the organization primarily responsible for governmental Extension work in the United States, at Iowa State University responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...