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  8. Papaioannou, John G. [ Autor/In ]

    Mega-cities ... and mega-city regions - 2: World - Megacities versus Megalopolises: A challenge for the future - "Experience shows that metropolitan areas are difficult to control," and "more so at the mega-city scale" when the accumulated difficulties become unmanageable. And, as they "become embedded in megalopolises, the problems are not solved, but become easier to control," since the wider "space affords multiple choices": A comparison of advantages and disadvantages of concentrically growing major metropolitan areas with a population of more than 10 million known as mega-cities and megalopolises - Of which there are currently at least 90 in existence - As they are reflected in the findings of the City of the Future research project of the Athens Center of Ekistics

    Ekistics , 1998

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  9. Muscarà, Calogero [ Autor/In ]

    Mega-cities ... and mega-city regions - 2: World - Giant cities, urban management and the global economy - Given that "the future of mega-cities is bound to a fragile equilibrium as to their capacity to resolve the contrasts between democracy and effectiveness, between social justice and good administration, between accelerated expansion and corresponding amenities, services and infrastructures" and that "the cause of underdevelopment is not lack of resources" but "the incapacity to become economically self-propulsive," ... "the direction to be taken remains that of turning major human settlements into global" cities where" the main function is that of an axis - That is, an area of connection with the global network" - Assuming that the "global cities become the wedge for their transference into megalopolises which then could become a step in the direction of Ecumenopolis ..."

    Ekistics , 1998

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  10. Gomez Vazquez Aldana, José Manuel [ Autor/In ]

    Mega-cities ... and mega-city regions - 2: World - Regionalization: The right approach to prevent negative impacts of mega-cities - Description of "the Regional Green Plan" and the "Integral Development Plan for the Coasts," two broad vision comprehensive projects with realistic proposals for immediate action in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, the second largest Mexican city, and in the State of Jalisco as a whole - The fourth in size of the 32 States of Mexico - Aiming at solving problems of pressure on the metropolis and proposing new options for development, helping metropolitan and municipal planning efforts to have a real chance of being applied

    Ekistics , 1998

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  11. Liangyong, Wu [ Autor/In ]

    Mega-cities ... and mega-city regions - 2: World - Beijing at a crossroads - A new concept for Greater Beijing - Within the current economic momentum which provides the capital city with opportunities for urban restructuring and challenges for future development "it is our historic duty to re-examine urban development strategy, benefit from the lessons of the past and ... develop a conceptual planning study" aiming at integrating urban development of the Beijing-Tianjing-North Hebei area; optimizing the spatial pattern of the metropolitan area; restructuring its built-up area; and preserving the Old City: The need for more specialized studies leading to practical implementation of development plans by a multidisciplinary regional study group

    Ekistics , 1998

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  12. Leman, Edward [ Autor/In ]

    Mega-cities ... and mega-city regions - 2: World - The Yangtze Delta megalopolis - "... a megalopolis cannot be 'planned' using traditional physical and economic planning approaches" ... but "its growth which can generally be predicted with a fair degree of certainty, at least at the regional scale, can lead to more effective coordination of critical infrastructure investment in inter-city transport, communication, and power distribution and to the identification of environmental problems before they transfer into crises": The structural and functional evolution in the last two decades and prospects of future consolidation of "an extremely dense, dynamic, complex and massive agglomeration" of cities concentrated within two growth bands anchored on Shanghai: The Shanghai-Nianjing corridor and the Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo corridor with a population expected to grow from 76 million to 91 million in the next ten years and the "gross value of industrial output to six or seven times its 1993 level"

    Ekistics , 1998

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  13. Gongyou, Li [ Autor/In ]

    Regions - Sustainable development: The third transformation of the Chinese economy - For a developing country with "the largest share of the world's population" neither "zero or slow economic growth (nor) a very sharp growth path which results in the deterioration of the ecological environment" can be acceptable: A "better criterion for choice (is an approach by which) economic activity (is) viewed as an evolutionary process with continuous feedback between a changing economy" and compatible environmental development

    Ekistics , 1997

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  15. Dix, Gerald B. [ Autor/In ]

    Forty years on persisting priorities - The re-use of buildings in historic towns: A coincidence of economic and cultural activities - "Let us not demolish what is old if reasonable re-use is possible, (but) old buildings that need a lot of maintenance can become a liability which it is unreasonable to ask future generations to support ... Let us welcome rather than condemn new development alongside old buildings where proper attention is paid to the essentials of urbanity and good architecture -- Scale and size, materials, texture and color, massing and silhouette"

    Ekistics , 1995

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  16. Kakissopoulos, Constantinos A. [ Autor/In ]

    Forty years on persisting priorities - Production schemes for building materials in the context of ekistic programs "A national program ... in a developing country to be effective, economical and able to respond to (real) needs, will have to be integrated with the general housing program of the country; based on a massive involvement of the population; accompanied by a program of training in the production and the applications of building materials, particularly traditional ones, and methods; organized and implemented by the government; and founded on standardization"

    Ekistics , 1995

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  19. Chung, Lawrence Lai Wai [ Autor/In ]

    Metropolis - Evaluating off Ice decentralization of a financial center: The case of Hong Kong - "... while there has been a continuous dispersal of office space along the mass transit railway within the Metropolitan Area of Hong Kong ... it is a myth that there has been a trend of key CBD office trader. of relocating from the CBD to off-CBD offices": The value of the "location history analysis" method in accurately measuring decentralization

    Ekistics , 1996

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