Sfoglia per Soggetto "Urban Studies"
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Dimensions of Atypical Forms of Employment in Thessaloniki, Greece
(2008)Post-Fordist reconstitutions in economy and society are positively related with the expansion of atypical employment. This article argues that many of the claims that an increase in atypical forms promotes less rigid labour ... -
Does land property structure affect local development patterns? Evidence from a Greek tourist area
(2008)This paper attempts to clarify the institutional context and local framework of landed property relations in the local development patterns of a rural space converted into an urban tourist resort on the island of Rhodes, ... -
Economic structure and change in the Balkan region: Implications for integration, transition and economic cooperation
(2000)The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive comparative analysis of the economic performance, economic structure and trade relations of the Balkan countries, in order to detect basic trends and developments ... -
The ESDP relevance to a distant partner: Greece
(2005)Greece is an untypical case from a territorial planning perspective at a European level as it faces constraints and limitations arising by its peripheral position and the limited accessibility to major economic agglomerations ... -
Fragmented Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization in the Greek Regions
(2014)This paper examines the degree of business cycle synchronicity among Greek regions and investigates the determinants of the business cycle co-movements of output associated with specific functional and spatial aspects of ... -
The glass menagerie of urban governance and social cohesion: Concepts and stakes/concepts as stakes
(2004)Social goals and social action are increasingly framed by a host of ambiguously egalitarian notions. The ambiguity of notions like 'social cohesion' originates principally in the tentative accommodation of competition and ... -
Managing water for Athens: From the hydraulic to the rational growth paradigm
(2003)Water management in Athens is at a turning point, since the relatively stable mode of State-organized and subsidized supply expansion has faced its limits in the drought-related crisis of 1989-1993. A shift in emphasis to ... -
Modeling urban evolution using neural networks, fuzzy logic and GIS: The case of the Athens metropolitan area
(2013)This paper presents an artificial intelligence approach integrated with geographical information systems (GISs) for modeling urban evolution. Fuzzy logic and neural networks are used to provide a synthetic spatiotemporal ... -
The new enlargement of the European Union: The financial framework and the new challenges ahead
(2004)The objective of this article is to shed light on the main financial elements related to the last enlargement of the European Union (EU), which is the largest in its history. In their methodological assessment and analysis ... -
Patterns of regional inequality in transition economies
(2001)This paper provides a comparative account of important aspects of regional development in transition economies, on the basis of regional statistics available for Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. More specifically it ... -
Place Marketing, Strategic Planning and Competitiveness: The Case of Malta
(2009)This article investigates place marketing and strategic planning processes in the case of Malta Island as a competitive tourist destination. The article focuses on the main ingredients that compose the marketing and strategic ... -
Portraying, classifying and understanding the emerging landscapes in the post-industrial city
(2006)This paper examines landscape transformations in the post-industrial city. It attempts to portray, classify and understand the emerging landscapes in terms of land use patterns, urban morphology and density. It is argued ... -
Post-industrial Trajectories of Mediterranean European Cities: The Case of Post-Olympics Athens
(2009)This paper deals with clusters of post-industrial urban economies and their impacts on the spatial restructuring and the relandscaping of the contemporary inner city. It investigates such impacts by studying recent economic, ... -
Regional convergence and growth in Europe: understanding patterns and determinants
(2011)The paper examines the pattern of regional convergence and the determinants of regional growth in Europe, providing a discussion of the issues that are of relevance to the theoretical conceptions and the subsequent design ... -
Segregation, social polarization and immigration in Athens during the 1990s: Theoretical expectations and contextual difference
(2007)This article investigates trends in segregation, polarization and inequality in Athens during the 1990s, and focuses on what may seem a paradoxical coexistence of decreasing segregation with increasing social polarization ... -
Spatialities of Ethnocultural Relations in Multicultural East London: Discourses of Interaction and Social Mix
(2012)Healey has described planning as managing a shared existence in space. In the context of multicultural cities, this shared lived experience brings to the forefront the interdependence of the factors shaping urban life and ... -
Urban design, urban space morphology, urban tourism: An emerging new paradigm concerning their relationship
(2001)The paper concerns the relationships between the physical form of the urban environment and leisure activities. It examines how urban space morphology-i.e. spatial patterns and formal patterns-may have an impact on tourists' ... -
Urban development, redevelopment and regeneration encouraged by transport infrastructure projects: The case study of 12 European cities
(2005)This paper attempts to describe the potential of urban transport infrastructure projects such as metro, regional rail and tram, to indirectly work as a catalyst for the development and redevelopment of urban areas as well ... -
Urban waterfront redevelopment in Greek cities - A framework for redesigning space
(2001)The paper examines urban waterfront redevelopment in Greek cities, regarding them as a group of cities rather than focusing on each case independently. It attempts to set up a theoretical framework for the redesign of space ...