Abstract After remodeling the economies of the Western world all along the 1980s, deindustrialization abruptly hit the former socialist countries in the early 1990s. Deindustrialization with destructuring meant the disintegration of the economic structure and industrial cities, and regions entered a downsizing spiral of population loss after the breakdown of traditional industries, outmigration...

BACKGROUND Internal residential mobility is an important contributor to economic vitality, helping to address gaps in the labour market, assisting regions to develop comparative advantages, and encouraging the circulation of skills, capital, and networks within a country. Mobility is, however, a complex sociological phenomenon influenced by individual, household, and community-level variables. ...

Globalization and market reforms have significantly facilitated urban transition and urbanization in the People’s Republic of China, greatly affecting the structural and spatial redistribution of Chinese cities since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. Prior to the 1978 economic reforms, the system of cities created by the Maoist regime was dominated by large and extra-large cities b...

313 tables labour market Table 1: Changes in employment rates between the first quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 (percentage points) ......................................... 22 Table 2: Workers registering as job seekers after being laid off as part of mass layoffs by region .... 23 Table 3: Employment rate across various subgroups in the Visegrád countries, 2008 ................ ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the most common avoidable factors, missed opportunities and substandard care in perinatal care in South Africa. SETTING Seventy-three state hospitals throughout South Africa representing metropolitan areas, cities and towns, and rural areas. METHOD Users of the Perinatal Problem Identification Programme (PPIP) amalgamated their data to provide descriptive information o...

Traditionally, the interaction between government agencies and citizens or companies was made in governmental buildings, where a public employee receives all the requests. This scenario is gradually changing and evolving because of the rapid growth of use of new communication technologies. Thanks to this, the government-citizens interaction has been moving to considerably closer to the citizen,...

there are continuous connections between a city and its periphery and the form of these relations varies. collection of these relations makes an influential area forming the various relations between the city and periphery. these relations are not the same and do not have unique concentration and density rather, they hey depend on population, geographic conditions and the role of the city in th...

Editorials The city, its people, their health and tuberculosis City life appears destined to dominate the future of mankind in both the developed and developing world. If current trends persist into the coming decades, all population growth at global level will occur in towns and cities [1]. The number and size of big cities are set to increase. The proportion of the world's population living i...