Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management

2006 - 2024

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Volume 5, issue 8(17), 2010

NON-MOTORIZED TRANSPORTATION – AN EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE FOR URBAN COMMUNITIES pp. 5-13

Eugen Rosca, Aura Rusca, Anamaria Ilie and Florin Rusca

WATER, SANITATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN URBAN FRINGE SETTLEMENTS IN NIGERIA pp. 14-29

Yekeen A. Sanusi

THE HIGH-SPEED RAIL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHEAST MEGAREGION OF THE UNITED STATES: A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS pp. 30-48

Xueming Chen

SOURCE SPECIFIC QUANTIFICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF SOLID WASTE ALONG A SANDY BEACH IN CAPE COAST, GHANA pp. 49-63

Isaac M. Bryant, Frederick A. Armah and Alex N.M. Pappoe

pROMOTING GREEN TOURISM FOR FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY pp. 64-74

Alhilal Furqan, Ahmad Puad MAT Som and Rosazman Hussin

DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC BUSINESSES IN REAL ESTATE pp. 75-84

Nicolae Radu Mã‚rsanu and Constantin Alin Gheran

TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYSIA. A REVIEW ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POLICIES pp. 85-97

Azizan Marzuki

Volume 5, issue 7(16), 2010

THE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF LAND-USE CHANGE AND SPRAWL: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL pp. 5-18

Anthony S. Clark

EMPOWERING CITIZENS’ VOICES IN THE ERA OF E-GOVERNMENT: IMPLICATIONS FROM SOUTH KOREAN CASES pp. 19-31

Joon Hyoung Lim

ORIENTATION OF COMMUNICATION ROUTES AND BALANCED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT pp. 32-45

Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor

INDICATORS OF URBAN SUSTAINABILITY IN MEXICO pp. 46-60

Silverio Hernández-Moreno and Jesús de Hoyos-Martinez

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY BY USING A FOOTBALL CLUB pp. 61-68

Vlad Rosca

THE ROLE OF URBAN TOURISM IN THE STRATEGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF BRASOV AREA pp. 69-85

Ruxandra Popescu and Razvan-Andrei Corbos

ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC LIFE IN FRANCOLISE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES pp. 86-91

Giancarlo Bova

Volume 5, issue 6(15), 2010

THE WEEE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN ROMANIA. DIMENSION, STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES pp. 5-22

Carmen Ciocoiu, Stefan Burcea and Valentina Tartiu

ANALYSIS OF THE COHERENCE OF LOGISTIC SYSTEMS FROM URBAN ENVIROMNENTS USING THE INFORMATIONAL INDICES pp. 23-39

Gheorghe Basanu and Victor Teleasa

LOCAL STRUCTURES AND SOCIAL POLICIES: DESIGN AND USE OF SERVICES IN THE CASE OF A TYPICAL URBAN GREEK MUNICIPALITY pp. 40-47

Vasiliki Delitheou and Eleni Gennadopoulou

RISK, UNCERTAINTY, AND SPATIAL DISTINCTION: A STUDY OF URBAN PLANNING IN STOCKHOLM pp. 48-59

Ylva Uggla

URBAN INDIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE: MITIGATION STRATEGIES TOWARDS INCLUSIVE GROWTH pp. 60-73

Sohail Ahmad and Mack Joong Choi

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY OF INTRA-URBAN BUS SERVICES IN THE CITY OF ENUGU, ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA pp. 74-91

Alphonsus Nwachukwu Ali

URBAN AIR QUALITY. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MAJOR EUROPEAN CAPITALS pp. 92-107

Cristina Alpopi and Sofia Colesca

Volume 5, issue 5(14), 2010

CITIES COMPETITION, PLACE MARKETING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH EUROPE: THE BARCELONA CASE AS FDI DESTINATION pp. 5-19

Theodore Metaxas

REGULATING URBANISATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA THROUGH CLUSTER SETTLEMENTS: LESSONS FOR URBAN MANGERS IN ETHIOPIA pp. 20-34

Davidson Sunday Ashemi Alaci

REDEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL LAND IN URBAN AREAS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS. A CASE STUDY OF TEXTILE MILL LAND REDEVELOPMENT IN MUMBAI pp. 25-46

Ramakrishna Nallathiga

VULNERABILITY OF URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR: STREET VENDORS IN YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA pp. 47-58

Aloysius Brata

METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT AND IMPROVEMENT POTENTIALS OF URBAN BASIC SERVICES GOVERNANCE IN DHAKA CITY, BANGLADESH: RHETORIC OR REALITY? pp. 59-81

Golam Moinuddin

RAPID URBAN SECTOR PROFILING FOR SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES (RUSPS) IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR URBAN PLANNING IN ONDO STATE, NIGERIA pp. 82-94

Johnson Bade Falade and Afolabi Aribigbola

FISCAL MANAGEMENT IN DANGILA MUNICIPALITY, ETHIOPIA. PERFORMANCE AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS pp. 95-119

Edson Mbedzi and Tendayi Gondo

URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN ZIMBABWE: A HUMAN SETTLEMENT PERSPECTIVE pp. 120-146

Killian Munzwa and Jonga Wellington

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN URBAN ARHITECTURE 3D MODELING pp. 147-164

Nicolae Radu Marsanu and Silvia Mihaela Rusu

ARTICLE REVIEW:THE ROLE OF URBAN MARKETING IN LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT A POLITICAL ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE pp. 165-171

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Volume 4, issue 4(13), 2009

HARMONIC TOURISM, FACTOR OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF TOLUCA, MEXICO pp. 5-24

Rocio SERRANO Barquin, Silverio Hernández-Moreno and Rebeca SERRANO Barquin

FLOODING AND PHYSICAL PLANNING IN URBAN AREAS IN WEST AFRICA: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS OF ACCRA, GHANA pp. 25-41

Noah Kofi Karley

CHINESE IMMIGRATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON URBAN MANAGEMENT IN LOS ANGELES pp. 42-58

Xueming Chen

HIGH-SPEED RAIL IN THE MIDWEST UNITED STATES:pOTENTIAL FOR SUCCESS pp. 59-74

Shishir Mathur and Srikalyani Srinivasan

MATHEMATICAL MODELING CONSIDERING AIR POLLUTION OF TRANSPORTATION: AN URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING, CASE STUDY IN PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA pp. 75-92

Mehrdad Hadipour, Sharareh Pourebrahim and Ahmad Rodzi Mahmmud

VISITORS PERCEPTION ON VANDALISM AND SAFETY ISSUES IN A MALAYSIAN URBAN PARK pp. 93-107

Nurhayati ABDUL Malek and Manohar Mariapan

SQUATTERS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSES IN URBAN AREAS: LAW AND POLICY IN MALAYSIA pp. 108-124

Azlinor Sufian and Nor Asiah Mohamad

CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES APPLIED TO URBAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT pp. 125-140

Silverio Hernández-Moreno

From Master Plan to Vision Plan: The Changing Role of Plans and Plan making in City development (with reference to Mumbai) pp. 141-157

Ramakrishna Nallathiga

URBAN SPRAWL, PATTERN AND MEASUREMENT IN LOKOJA, NIGERIA pp. 158-164

Michael Oloyede Alabi

IMPROVING URBAN MANAGEMENT THROUGH E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES: THE ROMANIAN EXPERIENCE pp. 165-176

Ion Plumb and Andreea Zamfir

THE BRANDING POTENTIAL OF BUCHAREST. STRATEGY AND SUCCESS FACTORS pp. 177-193

Ruxandra Popescu

ENERGY – CLIMATE CHANGE PACKAGE IMPACT ON ROMANIAN URBAN AREAS pp. 194-213

Virgil Musatescu and Mihaela Comanescu

BOOK REVIEW ON URBAN WASTE MANAGEMENT. EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE pp. 214-216

Mihaela Pacesila

BOOK REVIEW ON THE GREEK PRESENCE IN TULCEA pp. 217-218

Paula Scalcau

Volume 4, issue 3(12), 2009

planning for Smart Urban Ecosystems: Information Technology Applications for Capacity Building in Environmental Decision Making pp. 5-21

Tan Yigitcanlar

THE ROLE OF URBAN PARKS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDY OF KISUMU KENYA pp. 22-36

Rose Susan Rabare, Roselyne Okech and George Mark Onyango

Reverse logistics and space allocation for recovery management in new urban settlements pp. 37-48

Serban Raicu, Mihaela Popa, Eugen Rosca and Vasile Dragu

E-PARTICIPATION AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE: A CASE STUDY pp. 49-62

Angel Iglesias Alonso

New Era, New Criteria for City Imaging pp. 63-72

Kaveh Fattahi and Hidetsugu Kobayashi

Urban aesthetics: emergence and development pp. 73-78

Liviu Bogdan Vlad

pOLITICAL TRANSITIONS AND VULNERABILITY OF STREET VENDING IN MALAWI pp. 79-96

Happy M. Kayuni and Richard I.C.tambulasi

Housing supply in Algeria: affordability matters rather than availability pp. 97-114

Tahar Bellal

SERVICE QUALITY ATTRIBUTES AFFECTING THE SATISFACTION OF RAILWAY PASSENGERS OF SELECTIVE ROUTE IN SOUTHWESTERN PART OF BANGLADESH pp. 115-125

Khan Rubayet Rahaman and Md. Arifur Rahaman

A REVIEW ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN MALAYSIA pp. 126-136

Azizan Marzuki

DEVELOPMENT DRIVERS OF WASTE RECYCLING IN NSUKKA URBAN AREA, SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA pp. 137-150

Thaddeus Chidi Nzeadibe

patterns and Determinants of Recreational Behaviour in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria pp. 150-165

Victor Obinna, Opuene Owei, Aroyehun Ayodele and Ikechi Okwakpam

Urban Local Governance in the Crucible: empirical overtones of central government meddling in local urban councils affairs in Zimbabwe pp. 166-182

Jonga Wellington and Chirisa Innocent

BOOK REVIEW: DOCUMENTS OF THE SEVERIN MUNICIPALITY 1916-1920. AUTHORS: TUDOR RATOI AND NICOLAE CHIPURICI pp. 183-184

Paula Scalcau

BOOK REVIEW: THE GREEK PRESENCE IN MEHEDINTI. AUTHORS:pAULA SCALCAU AND TUDOR RATOI pp. 185-186

Sofia Colesca

Volume 4, issue 2(11), 2009

EDITORIAL. NOTE pp. 5-6

Sofia Colesca

INFORMAL HOUSING IN GREECE: A QUANTITATIVE SPATIAL ANALYSIS pp. 7-33

Serafeim Polyzos and Dionysios Minetos

FINANCING COMMUNITY FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE PARKS AND RECREATIONAL GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND MEASURE OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA pp. 34-49

Shishir Mathur

URBAN PLANNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES: AN OVERVIEW pp. 50-63

Xueming Chen

RETHINKING PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE: A GLIMMER OF LIGHT FOR PROSPECTS OF INTEGRATED PLANNING TO COMBAT COMPLEX URBAN REALITIES pp. 64-79

Ahmed Baha' El-Deen Abukhater

TERRORIST THREATS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION pp. 80-86

Ioan Nascu

THE SMART CITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT & MONITORING pp. 87-94

Mahmoud Al-Hader and Ahmad Rodzi

INDUSTRIAL AREAS. A SURVEY, ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL OF THE POTENTIAL FOR CONVERSION OF DISUSED INDUSTRIAL AREAS IN TICINO pp. 95-104

Enrico Sassi, Francesco Vismara, Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini and Josep Acebillo

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND URBAN MANAGEMENT pp. 105-111

Radut Carmen and Ramona Chitu

SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES OF INTEREST-FREE MICRO-FINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION. THE BANGLADESH PERSPECTIVE pp. 112-133

Jannat Ara Parveen

CLUSTERS – A NEW FORM OF REGIONS DEVELOPMENT IN SLOVAKIA pp. 134-142

Darina Chlebikova and Janka Mrazikova

BETWEEN HISTORY AND TOWN-PLANNING: DANITIS, MACCABEES, SADDUCEES, MEDICIS, SURICIS, CHRISTIANS AND MARRANOS IN TERRA DI LAVORO IN THE MIDDLE AGES pp. 143-151

Giancarlo Bova

CHALLENGES OF URBAN PLANNING AT THE FACE OF COUNTER-URBANIZATION pp. 152-165

Kazi Saiful Islam

BOOK REVIEW ON CITIES AS SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEMS:pRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES. Authors:peter Newman and Isabella Jennings pp. 166-168

Ionela Stefan

Volume 4, issue 1S, 2009

EDITORIAL. URBAN ISSUES IN ASIA pp. 5-7

Sofia Colesca

MODELLING PRICE DYNAMICS IN THE HONG KONG PROPERTY MARKET pp. 8-26

Sherry Zhefang Zhou and Helen Xiaohui Bao

pOST-EARTHQUAKE RECONSTRUCTION: TOWARDS A MUCH MORE PARTICIPATORY PLANNING pp. 27-37

Sheng Ying

LAND TRANSFORMATION: A THREAT ON BANGALORE’S ECOLOGY - A CHALLENGE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT pp. 38-47

Priya Narayanan and Ashok D. Hanjagi

SUSTAINABLE DRINKING WATER SUPPLY IN PUNE METROPOLITAN REGION: ALTERNATIVE POLICIES pp. 48-59

Sanjay Rode

THE ROLE OF LAND RIGHTS IN URBAN HERITAGE MANAGEMENT – THE EXPLANATORY POWER OF INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS ANALYSIS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OF KOTAGEDE YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA’S POST EARTHQUAKE pp. 60-75

Ismail Omar, Djurdjani Wardaya and priyono Nugroho Djojomartono

THE PROVISION OF INFRASTRUCTURE VIA PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVE pp. 76-86

Ismail Syuhaida and Md Yusof Aminah

FACILITY LOCATION MODELS DEVELOPMENT TO MAXIMIZE TOTAL SERVICE AREA pp. 87-100

Ahmad Rodzi Mahmud and Vini Indriasari

THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY ON ENTREPRENEUR’S LINKAGES DEVELOPMENT pp. 101-119

Mastura Jaafar, Abdul-Rashid Abdul-Aziz and Muhammad-Hijas Sahari

A SPATIAL ANALYSIS ON THE PROVISION OF URBAN PUBLIC SERVICES AND THEIR DEFICIENCIES: A STUDY OF SOME SELECTED BLOCKS IN KHULNA CITY, BANGLADESH pp. 120-132

Khan Rubayet Rahaman and Md. Salauddin

EVALUATION OF MUNICIPAL SERVICES IN SELECTED WARDS OF DHAKA CITY CORPORATION: CITIZEN’S PERSPECTIVE pp. 133-145

Mohammad Shakil Akther, Ishrat Islam and Md Musleh Uddin Hasan

Volume 4, issue 10, 2009

EDITORIAL NOTE pp. 5-6

Sofia Colesca

THE IMPACT OF THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2010 ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF DELHI pp. 7-29

Vinayak Uppal

HALF A LOAF. ARE NEW URBAN HYBRIDS A MARKETABLE OPTION? pp. 30-45

Gary Sands

TRANSFORMING THIRD WORLD CITIES THROUGH GOOD URBAN GOVERNANCE: FRESH EVIDENCE pp. 46-62

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

DOES DEMOLITION OF SLUMS AFFECTS ON PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN’S HEALTH IN MUMBAI? pp. 63-74

Sanjay Rode

INTERDEPENDENCY BETWEEN SIMULATION MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT pp. 75-85

Florica Luban and Daniela Hincu

THE INFLUENCE OF JURIDICAL REGULATIONS UPON TOURIST TOWN-PLANNING pp. 86-92

Carmen Iordache and Iuliana Cebuc

MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION IN URBAN SERVICES MANAGEMENT pp. 93-100

George Moldoveanu and Oana Sabie (Abaluta)

SLUMS IN ROMANIA pp. 101-113

Cristina Iacoboaea

THE ROLE OF URBAN MARKETING IN THE LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT pp. 114-135

Gabriela Cecilia Stanciulescu

URBAN REGENERATION PROCESS IN ROMANIA pp. 136-143

Oana Luca

BOOK REVIEW ON THE CITY AND THE URBAN COMPETITION, AUTHOR: IRINA POPESCU pp. 144-145

Cristina Alpopi