After the Meiji restoration, Osaka developed radically to become "Great Osaka" at the beginning of the Showa Period. For about 65 years, Osaka City administratively enforced area extensions twice, but despite this the city became a disorderly sprawl, losing its own distinct image. In the same period, in Osaka Prefecture, some modern psychiatric hospitals were founded, but they were not located ...

Growing business demands for new IT functionality (web sites, self-service portals, ecommerce, etc.) has led to a proliferation of hardware and software in the data center. Initially, though the cost benefi ts of x86 servers were (and still are) compelling, concerns around performance and reliability dictated a “one server, one service” implementation approach, where individual servers were lim...

Financial capitalism has driven profound changes in urban land use patterns in Majorca, at the Balearic Islands (Spain). This archipelago is a major tourist destination located in the Mediterranean basin, with 4,492 km 2 of surface area, 1,113,114 inhabitants and 12,316,399 tourists (2011), of whom 29.9% came from Germany, 24% from the UK and 19% from the rest of Spain. Neoliberal state regulat...

In the last century territory and layout of cities have undergone important changes with an enlargement in space human settlements. It deserves attention terms principles sustainability, limitation soil consumption, environmental impacts social needs. Then, a holistic vision for definition city its mobility is needed. This paper introduces systemic conceptual framework urban planning by combini...

The character of the residential development occurring at the periphery of a metropolitan area has extensive and diverse economic and social implications. The kinds and prices of housing produced, the population groups served, and the cost and problems of providing public services are all determined by the workings of the development process. An understanding of this process requires an examina...

The concept of urban sprawl spans multiple dimensions indicating how built-up land cover adds up throughout exurban landscapes. These different require a re-examination definitions and their driving forces because certain policies were formulated from the proposition informed knowledge have implicitly gratified into adjoining peripheries. This article aimed to offer an alternative perspective o...

The compact, geometrically integrated city can and should replace suburban sprawl as the dominant development pattern in the future. This approach to urban planning and design is well established among proponents of the New Urbanist and Smart Growth movements. However, the more radical scenario I propose in this paper is that the compact city should also replace the high-rise, ultra-high-densit...

The urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which a city has higher temperatures than surrounding countryside, is known to contribute to higher rates of heat-related mortality in summer months when temperatures soar. Although extreme heat events have become more common in large U.S. cities, a new study indicates that sprawling cities experience more than double the rate of extreme heat even...