B this cause diminish or disappear, inna minority ?f families or ndividuals have difficulty in adapting, ? ^ their tensions remain, or even grease. These form the hard core the discontented. Several doctors in new towns have ^?gested that there is a greater ncidence of neurosis in their Ipctices. Others have denied this, but Ereed that, compared with older k tablished areas, the patients might ...

Can tourism be the catalyst for urban preservation while permitting the continuation of urban culture? Only if local distinctiveness, rather than preserved monuments, is what attracts tourists to an historic region, argues Orba̧sli. The author advocates preservation through a planning-management approach. This approach avoids façadism (i.e., preservation of the physical elements only), and inste...

Pulmonary tuberculosis, although not generally believed to be so, is very common in India, especially in large towns and cities. The annual public health reports from various provinces clearly show that it is on an increase primarily in the large cities, affecting the larger towns to a less extent, and still less the villages. The principal pre'disposing causes are also increasing owing to more...

abstractâ recreation and leisure services, is one of the including factors affecting the quality of tourist experience in tourism destinations, something that also can directly affect them about their staying. the purpose of this study is quantitative and qualitative survey of recreational - leisure uses in the coastal strip of babolsar. methodology of this paper is descriptive- analytical. sou...

conclusions considering the weight percentage of food wastes (70%), solid wastes of babolsar city could be used for composting. also as large quantities of infectious wastes were produced by hospitals of babolsar, it is recommended that sterilization systems (hydroclave) be used for decontamination of these hazardous wastes. materials and methods this study was a descriptive and cross-sectional...

South Africa is characterized by significant inequality in spatial economic activity. Whether future growth and development on a subnational level in South Africa will be such as to reduce this inequality may depend on the economic growth and development of South Africa’s largest cities. Our local economic growth empirics show some indications of conditional convergence in output between poorer...

Economic diversification is crucial for the socio-economic sustainability of single-industry communities in the Russian North. The single-industry towns in the Russian North were formed during the Soviet era under an ideology, which promoted large-scale resource extraction in the peripheries (Blakkisrud 2006, p. 39). However, in the contemporary era, the extraction of new deposits in the Russia...

Peak-hour week-day traffic congestion is a common challenge in urban mobility. Promotion of commuter cycling can help in alleviating this problem in many cities. This paper takes a data analytics approach to propose policies for promoting commuter cycling in Singapore. It uses farecard data to assess the commuter cycling potential and develops a data-driven approach to policy making. A spatio-t...

A rather unique panel tracking more than 3300 individuals from households in rural Kagera, Tanzania during 1991/4-2010 shows that about 1 out of 2 individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning out of agriculture into the rural nonfarm economy or secondary towns. Only 1 out of 7 exited poverty by migrating to the big cities, even though those moving to the city experienced on...

South Africa is characterized by significant inequality in spatial economic activity. Whether future growth and development on a subnational level in South Africa will be such as to reduce this inequality may depend on the economic growth and development of South Africa’s largest cities. Our local economic growth empirics show some indications of conditional convergence in output between poorer...