This article is devoted to the theoretical and methodological problematisation of role played by museums in formation memory cultures small towns. The authors refer materials from field expeditions (2021–2022) ten Russian towns selected based on their geographical location, origin, age, other parameters. museum network usually analysed regarding larger cultural centres but this concept applies ...

This article studies the relation between rural industry and urban service functions in Mälardalen and the Southeast of Sweden 1820-90. The conclusion is that the general dynamic influence of towns highlighted in many British studies cannot be found in Sweden. Despite an overall increase in trade, financial services and information during the nineteenth century, Swedish towns did not in general...

Information poverty is a new form of poverty in information society. With the growing information-gap between urban and rural areas, information poverty is prevailing in the vast rural areas in China. It is largely restricted the new rural construction and the social harmonious development of villages and towns and must be resolved. The evaluation of rural information poverty is the premise to ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the wellbeing of families of male mine-workers living in remote mining towns in Australia. METHODS Through an extensive review of available (but limited) social science literature on mining towns this paper explores and identifies the key social issues and problems of mining towns. Social science and health-related research are used to argue that there are several factors...

Spatial variations in disease patterns of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic remain poorly studied. We explored the association between influenza death rates, transmissibility and several geographical and demographic indicators for the autumn and winter waves of the 1918-1919 pandemic in cities, towns and rural areas of England and Wales. Average measures of transmissibility, estimated by the rep...

An attempt to systemise the delivery of better quality housing has recently been occurring in England. As well as shelter being one of the most fundamental of human needs, in land use terms housing occupies the greatest part of our towns—so it has an enormous impact on the quality of the urban environment . Housing is always a major political issue, as will be briefly touched on below, and it i...