While urban pedestrianisation schemes typically attract vociferous opposition, it is often
unclear whether these negative views are representative of the general population. For this …

Olivia Munoz-Rojas critically examines the wartime destruction and post-war rebuilding of
three prominent sites in Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War and its …

Originally published in 1990, Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a
wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various …

Mass migration into the city of Barcelona in the 1950s created an estimated deficit of
100,000 dwellings by the close of the decade, and by the early 1960s an estimated 100,000 …

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the social geography of Western Europe. It
begins by outlining the character of the region nad proceeds with an exploration of …

In 2000 the municipality of Barcelona launched an ambitious project called 22@ bcn. This
had two main goals: to make the city a leading center of scientific and technological …

With his plan for the ensanche, or extension, of Barcelona, Cerdà presented a practical way
of shaping the new city, with a healthy density and uniform accessibility that he advocated …

Iraqi cities, particularly the capital Baghdad, have great historical and cultural value,
embodied in their historical centers' distinctive architectural and urban character. Baghdad …

ABSTRACT Harbin, located in Northeast China, is the provincial capital of Heilongjiang
province, the People's Republic of China. The city was one of the most crucial junction cities …

Urban cartography enables us to trace the historical and spatial evolution of human
settlements, but it also furnishes us with the opportunity to obtain and analyse urban data …