Drawing from three phases of a social research programme between 2002 and 2008, this paper proposes a framework for underpinning the development of urban water transitions policy and city-scale benchmarking at the macro scale. Through detailed historical, contemporary and futures research involving Australian cities, a transitions framework is proposed, presenting a typology of six city states,...

historic cities contain an old urban structure, which have been formed over time, based on the city’s identity features and have emanated in the form of historical relations and elements; therefore the quality of interventions took place in these contexts couldn’t be ignored. tabriz is one of iran’s most important historic cities that its structural identity has changed throughout history due t...

There is a well established correlation between initial entrepreneurship and subsequent employment growth across metropolitan areas. This relationship is true when modelling entrepreneurship through average establishment size or through the prevalence of startups; the relationship also holds at the industry level within cities. These patterns are often taken as evidence that entrepreneurship pr...

This paper views that destination brand as a holistic brand conception, and uses the attributes-based perceptual map technique to describe the static meaning of the positioning conception. With a case study of Shaoxing City in China, two main attributes historical culture and comprehensive function in local university students’ perception are achieved, and Shaoxing’s local university students’ ...