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Gernot Böhme proposes the concept of atmosphere as the basic concept of a new aesthetics without a point of departure in art. This article speculates on some possible urban implications of this concept. To start with, I present various ontological and epistemological aspects of the concept and specify some atmospheric dimensions of art and architecture. Then, I discuss Georg Simmel's concept of landscape, which seems to refuse the presence of atmosphere in the metropolis, as an overture to the next section on urban atmospheres. Urban atmospheres are multi-sensorial and demonstrate considerable variation from densely built inner-city areas to the modern spaces of urban sprawl. Mobility is a significant factor in relation to modern urban regions, the atmosphere of which might be thought of as a picturesque landscape for cyborgs. Urban communities may be of a primarily atmospheric kind. The historical city may have an atmosphere of age that can be sensed without much historical knowledge, and atmosphere may be the source of urban political struggle. Finally, I examine the atmospheres of the urban center and the urban region with a focus on Dag Østerberg's recent work on Oslo, arguing that atmospheric aspects of the socio-material action fields within the urban region may modify Østerberg's conclusions regarding the imaginary status of the center and the urban identity of the region. The pivotal argument of the article is that atmosphere is an important but overlooked dimension of both human relations in urban environments and the relationship between the human and the built environment. ; Gernot Böhme proposes the concept of atmosphere as the basic concept of a new aesthetics without a point of departure in art. This article speculates on some possible urban implications of this concept. To start with, I present various ontological and epistemological aspects of the concept and specify some atmospheric dimensions of art and architecture. Then, I discuss Georg Simmel's concept of landscape, which seems to refuse the presence of atmosphere in the metropolis, as an overture to the next section on urban atmospheres. Urban atmospheres are multi-sensorial and demonstrate considerable variation from densely built inner-city areas to the modern spaces of urban sprawl. Mobility is a significant factor in relation to modern urban regions, the atmosphere of which might be thought of as a picturesque landscape for cyborgs. Urban communities may be of a primarily atmospheric kind. The historical city may have an atmosphere of age that can be sensed without much historical knowledge, and atmosphere may be the source of urban political struggle. Finally, I examine the atmospheres of the urban center and the urban region with a focus on Dag Østerberg's recent work on Oslo, arguing that atmospheric aspects of the socio-material action fields within the urban region may modify Østerberg's conclusions regarding the imaginary status of the center and the urban identity of the region. The pivotal argument of the article is that atmosphere is an important but overlooked dimension of both human relations in urban environments and the relationship between the human and the built environment.

This thesis aims to analyze the notion of urban citizenship in istanbul and how it has been mapped onto the urban public spaces of the city. Urban public spaces and thus urban images of istanbul are constructed around ideas of civilization. in this thesis the relationship of city dwellers and urban public spaces is scrutinized through conceptualizing the notion of civilization in the context of globalization as an analytical tool which accounts for the governmentality of space. in this context a discourse of sociality constructed through parks gardens and green fields social facilities open-air gyms and museums formalizes and regulates the practices of urbanites and thus the notion of urban citizenship is defined through the sense of social belonging to the city. -- Abstract'tan. ; Bu tez, İstanbul'da kentli kavramını ve bu kavramın kentin kamusal mekanlarına nasıl haritalandığını analiz etmeyi amaçlıyor. İstanbul'un kent imajları ve kamusal mekanları uygarlaşma kavramının etrafında kurulur. Bu tezde, kent sakinleri ile kamusal mekanlar arasındaki ilişki, mekanın yönetimini de açıklayan uygarlaşma kavramının küreselleşme bağlamında analitik bir araç olarak kavramsallaştırılması yoluyla incelenir. Bu bağlamda, parklar, bahçeler ve yeşil alanlar, sosyal tesisler, açık spor alanları ve müzeler aracılığıyla kurulan sosyallik söylemi, kentlilerin pratiklerini şekillendirir ve düzenler. Böylece kentli kavramı da kentle kurulan sosyal aidiyet duygusuyla tanımlanır.

Rethinking Urban Policy -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Overview -- A FRAMEWORK FOR POLICY -- FLEXIBLE POLICIES FOR CHANGING CITIES -- The New Urban System -- Basic Concepts for Urban Economic Strategy -- Investing Private and Public Capital in the Urban Future -- Investing in the Future of the Urban Labor Force -- Stabilizing Metropolitan Economies -- Fostering Local Institutions to Manage the Transition -- RETHINKING URBAN POLICY -- 2 The Economy and Cities -- INTRODUCTION -- Concentration Amidst Decentralization -- Demography and Urban Change -- THE SHIFT TOWARD SERVICES -- Classifying Service Industries -- Nonprofit and Government Services -- The Growth of Producer Services -- Consumer Services -- BLUE-COLLAR CITIES, WHITE-COLLAR JOBS -- Increasing the Proportion of ''Knowledge'' Jobs -- Technology and the Future of Work -- Segmentation of the Labor Market -- Summary -- THE CONTINUING IMPORTANCE OF MANUFACTURING -- REGIONAL GROWTH AND DECLINE -- 3 The New Urban System -- A CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN AREAS BY FUNCTION -- COMMAND AND CONTROL CENTERS -- Diversified Service Centers -- National Centers -- Regional Centers -- Subregional Centers -- Transformation in the Diversified Service Centers -- Specialized Service Centers -- Functional Centers -- Other Specialized Service Centers -- SUBORDINATE CENTERS -- Consumer-Oriented Centers -- Production Centers -- IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW URBAN SYSTEM -- 4 Basic Concepts for Urban Economic Strategy -- RECONCILING NATIONAL, URBAN, AND SECTORAL INTERESTS -- The Formation and Flow of Capital -- The Distribution of Economic Opportunity -- Economic and Social Stability -- Expansion of Local Economic Opportunity -- LINKAGES BETWEEN THE ECONOMIC MAINSTREAM AND THE PLACES AND PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND -- TRANSITIONAL AND LONG-TERM STRATEGIES -- Transitional Strategy -- Long-Term Strategy -- CONCLUSION.

The essay discusses Danish urban politics and its present-day challenges in two partly separated sections: first, the intra-urban issues of social change, marginalisation and exclusion, and related problems; and secondly, inter-urban or regional development. Finally, the essay ends with a discussion of current trends in urban policy: are we on our way to more market domination and less state control? Urban policy is a quite broad topic, which cannot easily be defined. In this essay, urban policy is used more pragmatically. In general, it can be used in three different ways: as a policy directed towards steering and regulating cities and their internal conditions; as a sector policy targeted at specific urban phenomena, such as traffic policy, housing and planning policies; and as sector policies, such as financial or social policy with unintended urban effects. This essay will focus on the first, intended sort of urban policies, although others forms have had major impact on the shaping of urban conditions.

Burglary and robbery rates in St. Louis, Missouri, are investigated as functions of census unemployment levels taken in 1970 and 1980 for twelve yearly cross sections of crime rates, with all rates aggregated to the level of census tracts for analyses. The relationship of burglary and robbery rates to unemployment is found to be positive, and the interactive (logged) model is found to be the one most consistent with theory as well as the best predictive model. The magnitude of unemployment effects is large, and the policy implication is that urban areas fighting crime would benefit substantially from successfully targeted employment programs.

Urban Ecology -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Advisory Board -- Introduction -- Urban Ecology - Scientific and Practical Aspects -- Towards Ecological Sustainable Cities: Strategies, Models and Tools -- Ecological Cities - Models, Environmental Aims, Standards 1 -- Perspectives on the Environment: New Options -- Workshop: Environmental Quality Aims and Ecological Aims 1.1 -- Environmental Accounting on a Communal Level -- Urban Development and Environmental Policy: Objectives Outline of a Multi-disciplinary Research Programme -- Environmental Quality Goals and Standards as a Basis and Way to an Agenda 21 for Leipzig -- Environmental Quality Targets for Urban Structural Units in Leipzig with a View to Sustainable Urban Development -- The Role of "Process Chains Analysis" in Investigating Environmental Problems of Cities -- Environmental Quality Targets in the City of Wiesbaden -- Assessing the Metabolism of Urban Systems for Urban Planning -- Workshop: Urban Climate 1.2 -- The Urban Climate and Municipal Climate Protection - Different Sides of the Same Coin? -- A Case Study on the Effects of Vegetation on the Climate in the Urban Area -- Assessment of Human-Biometeorological Conditions in Different Kinds of Urban Structures -- Models for Setting up a Biometeorological Warning System over a Populated Area in Havana -- Workshop: Air Pollution 1.3 -- Air Quality in a Tropical Mega-City - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Airborne Pollutants from Mobile Sources for the City of Mendoza, Argentina -- Suburban Commercial Estates and their Impact on the Situation of Immissions in the City of Leipzig -- Assessment of Ambient Air Quality in an Urban Ecosystem -- Estimation of Air Quality by Complex Index -- Workshop: Water Management 1.4 -- Sustainable Berlin by Process Coupling between City and Catchment.

"This paper discusses how widespread poverty and exclusion are in urban China during the period of transition from central planning to a market economy. Two poverty lines have been employed to measure poverty rates in urban areas: a diagnostic poverty line calculated by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) experts and a benefit poverty line used in the Minimum Living Allowance Program of the Chinese government. Both sets of estimates show marked variations by province. According to the former standard, the poverty headcount of China in 1998 was estimated as 14.8 million, with a poverty rate of 4.7 percent. According to the later standard, the poverty headcount for 2007 is estimated as 22.7 million, amounting to a poverty rate of 3.9 percent. Poor people are generally not living in absolute poverty, as their basic needs in food, clothing and shelter can largely be met. However, they have low incomes and restricted consumption potential. Economic constraints also entail adverse consequences like poor health, poor education and limited social contacts. Two groups of people are here considered as the new poor: unemployed or laid-off workers and labor migrants. This means that China now has two new forms of urban poverty which are caused by different factors and are combined with different forms of deprivation. Therefore, policy programs designed to eradicate poverty in urban areas have to be tailored carefully to the poor people's special needs. Job creation and a comprehensive social protection system are here proposed as two effective instruments in the fight against urban poverty." (author's abstract)

Sandercock, L. K. 1975: Cities for sale: property, politics and urban planning in Australia.McMaster, J. C. and Webb, G. R., editors, 1976: Australian urban economics: a reader.Webb, G. R. and McMaster, J. C., editors, 1975: Australian transport economics: a reader.

Urban regime theory has shaped the urban politics research agenda in the United States for the past two decades. The article argues that urban regime theory draws on public and corporate behavior and strategies that were typical to the industrial era in the United States. As a result, the theory is insensitive to changes in institutional hierarchies, economic globalization, and the emergence of new types of actors and issues in urban politics. Urban governance theory conceptualizes agency more generically that allows the theory to travel better than urban regime theory in time and space.