Britain?Achievements and Problems. By J. H. Nicholson. (Report sponsored by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and the National Council of Social Service and published by the N.C.S.S.) This report attempts to review the social consequences of rehousing policies in the country as a whole and covers not only the new towns, but also selected housing estates and expanded towns. Dr. Nicholson found m...

Economic and social changes in recent decades led to regional imbalance and inordinate concentration of facilities in some parts and bereavement of other parts. We need to district and regional planning which its objective is providing an appropriate model for balanced distribution of services according to population of settlements or spatial balance in the region. The topics of sust...

BACKGROUND Since 2003 and 2005, National Pilot Medical Financial Assistance Scheme (MFA) has been implemented in rural and urban areas of China to improve the poorest families' accessibility to health services. Local governments of the pilot areas formulated various benefit packages. Comparative evaluation research on the effect of different benefit packages is urgently needed to provide eviden...

The construction of characteristic town which derives from Zhejiang is a new exploration for Province to adapt the economic development. Being reliant on experience small towns in and other provinces municipalities, China puts forward requirement nationwide. development level nationwide an important factor influences regional transformation upgrading drives urbanization rural construction. Base...

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...

Cycling confers health and environmental benefits, but few robust studies have evaluated large-scale programmes to promote cycling. In England, recent years have seen substantial, town-wide cycling initiatives in six Cycling Demonstration Towns (funded 2005-2011) and 12 Cycling Cities and Towns (funded 2008-2011). The initiatives involved mixtures of capital investment (e.g. cycle lanes) and re...