In the political science literature, downtown redevelopment has long been seen as the project of a region’s economic elites. But in recent years, large corporations, banks, and department stores have in many cases abandoned central business districts, and downtowns are now more likely to be developed as centers of entertainment and culture, or as residential districts. This article posits that ...

The principles of design discussed here are far from new, and a debt to prior authors is fully acknowledged. Among those I have found most helpful are Raymond Unwin (Town Planning in Practice, 1908), Werner Hegemann (Civic Art, 1922), and Gorden Cullen (Townscape, (1961). The insights of more contemporary practitioners such as Doug Kelbaugh (Common Place, 1997), Peter Calthorpe and William Fult...

Graduate students have been shafted as far as living areas are concerned since the construction of the new campus. Gradually, all else has moved uptown or further downtown to Draper, including graduate-level courses. Yet all of the on-campus graduate housing remains downtown, in Brubacher and Pierce halls. Grad students should be given a choice of where to live, and now that Indian is nearly fi...

There has been a long-standing debate about whether urban living is more or less sustainable than suburban living, and quality of life (QoL) is one of several key measures of the social sustainability of residential living. However, to our knowledge, no study to date has examined life satisfaction among residents of downtown high-rise living compared to residents living in suburban low-rise hou...

OBJECTIVE In developing countries, Helicobacter pylori infection is mainly acquired during childhood and may be a predisposing factor for peptic ulcer or gastric cancer later in life. Noninvasive diagnostic tools are particularly useful in children for screening tests and epidemiological studies. We aimed to determine the prevalence of H. pylori infection among Kurdish children in Sanandaj, Wes...

Jamal Seidi, Fatemah Alhani, Mahvash Salsali, Anoushirvan Kazemnejad. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing and midwifery, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran; Associate professor, Department of Nursing, faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran; Professor, Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran of U...

Downtown revitalization has become an important policy issue, especially in advanced countries. In more than 50 years since Jane Jacobs’s discourse, the mechanism of the formation and decline of downtowns has been the subject of much controversy. It has been argued that the agglomeration and attractiveness of downtown are supported by its internal diversity. However, very little research includ...