Brent D. Ryan first visited Detroit in 1993. Describing this experience, he says: ‘‘The sense of emptiness was overpowering. ... I felt as if I was walking into the ruin of America.’’ In his book ‘‘Design after decline—how America rebuilds shrinking cities,’’ Ryan tries to understand why so many American cities have been losing population, what was and is done to change the fortune of these cit...

Financial capitalism has driven profound changes in urban land use patterns in Majorca, at the Balearic Islands (Spain). This archipelago is a major tourist destination located in the Mediterranean basin, with 4,492 km 2 of surface area, 1,113,114 inhabitants and 12,316,399 tourists (2011), of whom 29.9% came from Germany, 24% from the UK and 19% from the rest of Spain. Neoliberal state regulat...

Analyzing the structure and functioning of the urban system revealed ways to optimize its structure by adjusting the relationships among compartments, thereby demonstrating how ecological network analysis can be used in urban system research. Based on the account of the extended exergy utilization in the sector of urban socio-economic system, which is considered as the composition of extraction...

As a regional management unit to solve "urban diseases,” metropolitan areas are gradually attracting widespread attention. How objectively and accurately delineate the boundaries of area is primary prerequisite for carrying out targeted studies precisely formulating planning measures. However, existing methods delineating have problems, such as high data acquisition costs, subjectivity, single ...

The Article focuses on the first period of political and socio-economic transformation in Poland (1989-2004) describes change capital ownership links during transition from a centrally planned to free market economy. It constitutes an important research issue context understanding economic East-Central Europe, particular mechanisms flow foreign into certain areas space. processes have brought a...

Since the end of apartheid, patterns of migration into South Africa have shifted, and South Africa has become adestination for people from across the African continent and beyond a small but important number of whom arerefugees and asylum seekers. While South Africa has a protective, integrative, urban refugee policy, many ofthese individuals struggle to access the rights to whi...

PURPOSE Gender inequity is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV), although there is little research on this relationship that focuses on youth or males. Using survey data collected from 240 male and 198 female youth aged 15-24 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we explore the association between individual-level support for gender equity and IPV experiences in the past 6 months and describe...