For an increasing number of women globalization has led to migration: more and more women are involved in internal, regional and international migration to find jobs and most of them are employed to do agricultural and domestic work. In this paper an attempt has been made to see the migration of Mexican women to urban informal sector particularly to Monterrey Metropolitan Region. The paper has ...

I dentifying critical issues confronting an urban sociology of the twenty-first century entails a decision and a judgment, both in turn inevitably derived from an interpretation of history in the making. The enterprise is, thus, partial and positioned. Developing analytical and empirical elements (and I emphasize elements) for an urban sociology focused on the early twenty-first century does no...

Over the last decade, concept of circular economy (CE) has gained momentum among practitioners, politicians, and scholars because its promise achieving sustainability goals. However, there is still a need to demonstrate assess positive environmental impacts CE. With respect building sector, CE relatively new topic. To date, research tended focus primarily on macro-scale (cities or eco-parks) mi...

looking at the structure of the cities, especially older parts of the city, it is seen that most of the urban public parts and elements are constructed not with any reliance on state resources and credits, but based on the consecration systems and public investments. added to the sublime religious, social and economic values latent in the consecration culture, its impact in creating identity an...

Large di erences in hourly compensation exist between the natives (urban hukou holders) and rural to urban migrants of the Chinese cities, a third of which cannot be explained by any variation in observable characteristics. This paper attempts to explain the di erences using a Tiebout-esque political economy model of migration in which rents are appropriated from the migrants by the rent-seekin...

this paper offers a report about the professional workshop of researching tehran which was held in august 2015 in tehran along with the fourth and fifth conference on urban landscape phenomenology. in this regard denis delbaere and frédéric poussin, experts on landscape and territorial planning, and professors of universities in france, explained their first impressions of tehran in their first...

more than 50% of the global population already lives in urban settlements which are projected to absorb almost all the global population growth to 2050, amounting to some additional three billion people. over the next decades the increase in rural population in many developing countries will be overshadowed by population flows to cities. rural populations globally are expected to peak at a leve...