From Department of Health, Taipei City Government, Taiwan ; Department of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan; Department of Emergency Medicine, Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taiwan Address for reprints: Dr. Hang Chang, Department of Helath, Taipei City Government, 1 City-Government Road, Taipei, Taiwan Received: April 5 2004. Revised: April 2

This article introduces a theoretical framework for the analysis of business models that involve public actors, and city governments in particular, in the value network. It starts from an established business model framework and expands it to include an additional set of indicators required to successfully perform a qualitative analysis of the business models of new (digital) services offered b...

This study uses a municipal e-government services framework to evaluate the development of municipal electronic government (e-Government) in Peruvian cities by assessing the web sites and services provided by each city. The findings show that the degree of development of e-Government in Peru is incipient, with the need to improve not only the municipal websites but also the municipal e-Governme...

Research on the creation and use of 3D city models has made rapid progress recently. An increasing number of cities and regions now own 3D city models or are planning to use them in the future. Especially planning departments see an enormous potential in the use of 3D city models to visually and algorithmically access environmental and spatial impacts of planning proposals. However, examples fo...

Cities are facing many challenges; challenges linked to world-wide trends like urbanisation, climate changes and globalisation. In parallel to these trends, we have seen a rapid digitalisation in and of different parts of society. Cities and local governments have been appointed an important role in overcoming these world-wide challenges, and subsequently, in policy practices digitalisation is ...

This article is about the institutional collaboration in the management structure of a city-region. To achieve this purpose, corporate limits of Qazvin are studied as the city is becoming a region.  The possible institutional cooperative in the centralist governmental structure is planned based on the new regionalism theory and its governance pattern, new institutionalism theory and its emphas...

introduction it this study it is attempted to find out the nature of relationships between rural-urban linkages by statistical analysis regarding the impact of the city on the levels of rural development. rural-urban relationships in the developing countries have rapidly expanded in the recent decades. because, city and village comprise an integrated system, and the development of each part of ...