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Sao Paulo Metropolitan Transformations: Innovation or Reproduction
Daniela M. Eigenheer,
Nadia Somekh
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2019
Pages:
48-52
Received:
10 January 2019
Accepted:
1 April 2019
Published:
29 May 2019
Abstract: On the understanding that urbanization trends incorporate spatial changes of the economy, the research analyzes post-2000 new dynamics of urban sprawl, linked to the advanced economies that are changing the land use patterns along the northwest vector of Sao Paulo state capital. The vector structured by the Anhanguera / Bandeirantes highway system links the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo with the metropolitan region of Campinas. It is considered the major economic development axis of the country. Located in this area, the research focuses on small cities, due to their recent formation, as well as, the greater intensity of tertiary sector occupations linked to the advanced economies in their urban land. From the regional point of view, it is observed the strengthening of these new centers and of a larger territory that extends beyond the metropolitan scale. This article intend to understand the logic of this process, which is related to new productive structures and produce a new organization of metropolitan territories, that overlap on the old "Metropolitan Area", reproducing dynamics of urban sprawl , at the same time establishing a new morphological configuration of the territory.
Abstract: On the understanding that urbanization trends incorporate spatial changes of the economy, the research analyzes post-2000 new dynamics of urban sprawl, linked to the advanced economies that are changing the land use patterns along the northwest vector of Sao Paulo state capital. The vector structured by the Anhanguera / Bandeirantes highway system ...
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Urban Underground Street Planning and Visitors' Willingness to Revisit: A Perspective from Tourist Preference
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2019
Pages:
53-66
Received:
1 March 2019
Accepted:
1 May 2019
Published:
4 June 2019
Abstract: Underground street is an important recreational resource and tourism resource, and it is one of the signs of urban tourism and the window of tourism image. Among underground street visitors, tourists are the most important group of visitors who have no direct interest with developers, planners and managers. Tourist preferences are one of the criteria and important references to test whether planners' underground street planning and design works are popular with the public. This paper reviews the literature on tourist preference and underground street at first and finds that there is no relevant literature on urban underground street planning from the perspective of tourist preference in academia. Then, this paper uses the method of questionnaire survey and SPSS software to analyze the reliability, validity, descriptive analysis and regression analysis of the survey data. The results show that there is a close relationship between the planning of urban underground street and visitors' willingness to revisit. The environment, decoration, commercial form, public facilities, traffic and other factors involved in underground street planning and design are the main factors affecting tourists' revisit. Under the background of space-time compression and shared city, tourist preference has a direct role in promoting underground street planning and design.
Abstract: Underground street is an important recreational resource and tourism resource, and it is one of the signs of urban tourism and the window of tourism image. Among underground street visitors, tourists are the most important group of visitors who have no direct interest with developers, planners and managers. Tourist preferences are one of the criter...
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Determinants of Population Growth Trends for Tanzanian Small Towns
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2019
Pages:
67-78
Received:
26 April 2019
Accepted:
9 July 2019
Published:
19 July 2019
Abstract: The largest share of urbanisation in Sub Saharan Africa is taking place in settlements that are smaller than cities. However, these small urban settlements are conceptually neglected and mostly mistheorised as overriding land governance concepts and institutional procedures were designed for large urban centres or the extreme opposite, villages. As a result, there is either a total lack of specific policies on small urban centres or the policies are designed wrongly thus contributing to challenges of informality, poor servicing and environment degradations. This paper, using the Tanzanian case, is an attempt to contribute in understanding the dynamics of small towns through establishing the population thresholds that can appropriately be classified as small towns and the factors driving their growth. The study analyses census data spatially using geographical information system and statistical software. The results indicate that the typical size of small towns where polarisation forces still gravitate towards the town has a number of people between 10,000 and 50,000 people with population density at the core of the settlements ranging from 40 to 120 people per hectare. The major factors for the development are the presence of economic activities that have value addition options contributing to off-farm employment, and the typical radius of its hinterland for each small town is about a one hour drive. As the number of small towns continues to grow in Sub Saharan Africa due to continued polarisation forces, policies and interventions for the management of small have to be pre-emptive and anticipatory.
Abstract: The largest share of urbanisation in Sub Saharan Africa is taking place in settlements that are smaller than cities. However, these small urban settlements are conceptually neglected and mostly mistheorised as overriding land governance concepts and institutional procedures were designed for large urban centres or the extreme opposite, villages. As...
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