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HOTSYNETS, Iryna. "IMAGES OF THE CITY AND THE VILLIAGE AS FRAGMENTS OF THE LINGUAL DESCRIPTION OF CHORNOBYL SPACE." Culture of the Word, no. 94 (2021): 75–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.37919/0201-419x-2021.94.6.

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Images of cities and villages for which the consequences of the Chornobyl explosion became the most tangible are outlined in Ukrainian artistic discourse with documentary authenticity. These descriptions exacerbate emotionality, the tone of tragedy, and sometimes apocalyptic coloration. The general nominations city, village, as well as the names of specific settlements that have suffered the most from the Chоrnobyl accident, are consistently combined with the negative epithets deserted, sparsely populated, empty, empty, abandoned, dead, neglected, orphaned. Verbalizing the semantics of ‘lack of life’, ‘fading of life’, ‘desolation’, they depict and assess the state of towns and villages after the accident, in particular in connection with the situation of mass evacuation of residents. The expressiveness of the description is intensified by the definitions of abandoned, neglected, orphaned. The overall picture of desolation is visually complemented by images of looted homes, wild pets, overgrown fields and gardens. The verbal image of a radiation-infected town / village is especially relevant for the texts of fiction and non-fiction. The authors quite motivatedly characterize post-accident cities with the help of epithets infected, doomed, unpromising. The associative-semantic deepening of the motif “abandoned, dead towns and villages in the exclusion zone” is provided by negative-evaluation images with the seed ‘silence’. In the linguistic portraitl of empty, uninhabited towns and villages, modal words no, no, negative pronouns and adverbs (nobody, nowhere) and verb constructions with negative particles no and no, constructions with a preposition without perform an important text-forming function. Indicative aspect of the description – the space above the city, the sky. This is objectively motivated by the artistic reflection of the fact that the cloud of radioactive contamination formed as a result of the explosion rose up, covering Chоrnobyl and Pripyat. The tension of the “ground” atmosphere in Pripyat and Chernobyl is described by verbs and verb compounds with the seeds ‘intensive traffic’, which metaphorize the intensity of traffic – to take off, snatch, race, fly, tear / jerk, jump. Together, they create a cinematic description characteristic of chronicle-documentary prose. This is facilitated by verbs with the seeds ‘to move quickly’, ‘to stop suddenly’, ‘to start moving suddenly’.
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Cărbunariu, Gianina, and Bonnie Marranca. "The Reality of Fiction." PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 38, no. 2 (2016): 112–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00323.

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In the last decade, the playwright and director Gianina Cărbunariu has become one of the prominent young voices in contemporary European theatre. Mihaela, the Tiger of Our Town, which premiered at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, will be performed at the 2016 Avignon festival by Sweden's Jupither Josephsson Company. Other plays include Stop the Tempo, For Sale, Typographic Letters, Solitarity, Metro is Everywhere, and mady-baby.edu (later titled Kebab). The plays have been translated into more than fifteen languages, and they have been performed in Romanian cities and in theatres across Europe, in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Madrid, Brussels, Vienna, Athens, Warsaw, Budapest, Dublin, and elsewhere in Moscow, Istanbul, Santiago de Chile, New York, and Montreal. Cărbunariu has had residencies at the Lark Theatre in New York and London's Royal Court. Her plays and productions have received numerous awards in Romania and in Canada. She is a founding member of the dramAcum independent theatre group in Bucharest. This interview was taped in New York City on December 19, 2015.
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Bastos, Hermenegildo José. "Viagens, memória, coleção e arquivos na narrativa de Murilo Rubião." Revista do Centro de Estudos Portugueses 20, no. 27 (2000): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2359-0076.20.27.109-122.

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<p>Na geografia da ficção muriliana opõe-se a serra ao mar. Os personagens são ex-marinheiros ou descendentes de marinheiros. A nostalgia do mar é pelo passado de ação e bravura. No presente da narrativa, habitam cidadezinhas do interior. Deslocam-se para a cidade grande ou esperam pelos seus representantes, que vêm civilizá-los. O navio foi substituído pelo trem, representando cada um uma etapa da história do capitalismo: a expansão ibérica e a inglesa. Narrase aí a aventura colonial. A escrita fantástica revela os espectros da aventura da modernidade, que vagueiam entre o passado e o presente. As camadas mais remotas da memória dessa aventura são as das cidades pequenas, as mais recentes, as da cidade grande. Confrontam-se modos diferentes de produção e sobrevivência. A má fé do personagem narrador denuncia a sua cumplicidade com os jogos do poder.</p> <p>In murileon’s fiction geography, the mountain is opposed to the sea. The characteres are former sailors or sailors descendents. The nostalgia for the sea relates to the action and bravery of the past. In the narrative’s present, they dwell in country little towns. They move to the big cities or they wait for its representatives to come and civilize them. The train was substituted for the ship, each one representing one step in capitalism history: the Iberian and British expansion. The narration of the colonial adventure takes place. The fantastic writing reveals the ghosts of the modernity adventure, who wander between past and present. The most remote layers of the memory of this adventure are the ones of the little towns, and the most recent, the ones of the big cities. Different ways of production are confronted with different ways of survival. The narrator’s bad faith denounces his complicity in power games.</p> <p> </p>
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Falski, Maciej. "Symbolic policy in small towns of Zamojszczyzna region, Poland, in the post-socialist period." Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics 17, no. 3 (2023): 223–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2023-0014.

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Abstract Small cities have attracted less attention from researchers of transformation processes, although in some countries they are an important part of the social landscape, as they are in Poland. I present the results of research on the public space and symbolic politics in three small towns in Zamojszczyzna, a region in southeastern Poland. All are characterized by interrupted or disturbed historical continuity due to the extermination of their Jewish communities, which made up the majority of the population until World War II. After 1945, the Jewish past was silenced, while the symbolic space was dominated by the memory of the resistance movement. I show in my text that since the 1990s there have been significant transformations in the aforementioned towns. In some of them, firstly, interest in Jewish heritage and efforts to preserve it are becoming more apparent. Second, there is a noticeable shift from commemorating anti-fascism to promoting the so-called struggle against communism, a reflection of the current politics of remembrance at the central level. I argue that the use of cultural heritage in small towns serves largely to gain recognition. Local authorities often use not only elements of the past that fit into national narratives, but also local traditions or even fictional literary heroes, for this purpose.
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Gibson, Suzie. "Malouf's invisible city: The intertwining of place and identity in Johnno." Queensland Review 22, no. 1 (2015): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2015.8.

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By the time poet David Malouf wrote Johnno (1976), his first work of prose fiction, he was in his late thirties and living in the Renaissance city of Florence. Both European Florence and antipodean Brisbane mirror and enfold the novel's eponymous hero, Johnno, and his narrator-creator, Dante. The Florentine poet, and by extension his medieval trappings, resonate throughout a tale about growing up in a frontier town far removed from the cosmopolitan centres of the Northern Hemisphere. This Italian connection can be explored further by considering Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1997) alongside Johnno. The depiction of Venice in Calvino's novel can operate as a point of contrast and comparison to the river city of Brisbane, conjured by Malouf's Dante.
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CHATTOPADHYAY, SWATI. "Introduction: the historical legacy of suburbs in South Asia." Urban History 39, no. 1 (2012): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926811000770.

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The edges of Indian cities have become nebulous, their morphology uncertain. They appear to extend for miles in Mumbai and Kolkata as an ‘assorted chaos’ of middle-class residences, slums and bazaars, blurring into smaller provincial towns. The latter seem to distinguish themselves through the sameness of their ‘taste for strident politics, violent films, ostentatious architecture, lewd music, rumour-mongering newspapers and overcooked food’. The stretch between Delhi and Gurgaon is a series of real estate fictions of spurious capital and inadequate infrastructure. Spurred by the liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s and supported by state policies that have lifted many of the restrictions on rent and land use, the structural transformation of Indian metropolises manifests itself on the edges of the city as a struggle between vast slums and corporate developers’ vision of up-scale real estate, between landscapes of rice and wheat fields and expanding airports and golfing greens.
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Höller, Lukas. "Porous Kirkenes: Crumbling Mining Town or Dynamic Port Cityscape?" Urban Planning 6, no. 3 (2021): 197–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i3.4105.

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The great number of actors in port city regions, such as port authorities, municipalities, national governments, private companies, societal groups, and flora and fauna, need to develop shared visions. Collaborative approaches that focus on combined values can help achieve long-term resilience and enable a sustainable and just coexistence of port and city actors within the same territory. However, the sheer focus on economic profit generated by port activities overshadows and ignores equally essential cultural, societal, and environmental values and needs. The lack of pluralities in planning and decision-making processes creates challenges for the cohabitation of the many actors and their interests within port-city regions. On the one hand, contemporary spaces in port cities cannot be classified and defined by traditional dichotomies anymore. On the other hand, the perception of spatial and institutional boundaries between port and city leads to a positivistic-driven definition of a rigid and inflexible, line-like interface physically and mentally separating the port from the urban activities and stakeholders, neglecting the inseparable character of many parts of our society. By investigating and re-imagining the future port-development plans within the historic mining town of Kirkenes, located around 400 km above the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway, the aim of this article is to explore and combine the concepts of negative and positive porosity and liminality and arrive at a renewed perception of the port cityscape, which can function as dynamic thresholds inbetween the multiple dualities and realities of various port and city actors. The article bridges the theoretical/conceptual sphere of urban porosity and the practical approaches of liminal design. By using Design Fiction as a tool for creating new, innovative, and pluralistic port city narratives, the article contributes to contemporary research that aims for imaginary, value-based, and history-informed approaches to designing future-proof, resilient, just, and sustainable port cities.
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Filippov, Sergey. "Critical Attitudes among the Soviet Scientific and Academic Intelligentsia in the Historical and Socio-Cultural Context of 1960-1990s." Ideas and Ideals 14, no. 2-1 (2022): 68–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.17212/2075-0862-2022-14.2.1-68-85.

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The article deals with investigating into the conditions of the critical attitude spread among scientists and academicians during the period of 1960s–1990s towards some aspects of domestic and foreign state policy of that time. At the same time, the motives for such a criticism seem not to be obvious, since the social status and well-being of the scientific and academic intelligentsia, as well as its public prestige, was one of the highest among the socio-professional groups of Soviet society. To perceive criticism of Soviet scientists as a form of struggle against the regime does not seem entirely correct, since the critically thinking Soviet scientists did not seek to popularize their socio-political ideas and attract supporters from other social groups. On the contrary, the discussion on “complex” political and socio-economic aspects of the Soviet society took place within closed communities. In addition, the Soviet scientific intelligentsia of that time, unlike the pre-revolutionary intellectuals, did not idealize people; they did not have a sense of “guilt” towards it, as well as the idea of selfless “serving the people”. Soviet scientists perceived themselves as an elite, even aristocratic group, and this idea found expression in the science-fiction novel “Hard to Be a God” by the Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The main character of the novel is the historian Anton, who was sent to the Arkanar Kingdom on an alien planet and assumed the role of an aristocrat named Don Rumata. He masterfully uses a sword, enjoys phenomenal success with women and contributes to the progress of local humanity. The Soviet intellectuals of that time constructed their own elite professional and social identity using the practices of prestigious consumption and behavior and pursuing specific socialization strategies that were alternative to the official Soviet norms and rules of behavior. The self-identification of scientists as an elite group within the Soviet society was based on the social conditions for the development of science in the USSR in the 1950s–1960s such as a high level of prestige of scientific and academic activities, high expectations from science as well as creating relatively autonomous scientific centers (“Academic Town” or ZATO (‘closed administrative-territorial formation’) – closed towns with secret research installations). Such settlements were quite independent from the local and regional authorities being subordinated directly to Moscow. Besides, secrecy of closed cities or facilities limited the possibilities of the direct control and interference from regional party and state authorities in the activities of scientific institutions and scientists.
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Pearce, Sharyn. "The evolution of the Queensland kid: Changing literary representations of Queensland children in children's and adolescent fiction." Queensland Review 3, no. 2 (1996): 59–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600006449.

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Since the education explosion in mid-nineteenth century England, when astute publishers began to capitalise upon a newly created and burgeoning market, Australia has always featured prominently in fiction aimed at children and adolescents. Those British children who initially made up the bulk of the reading audience for books set in Australia were eager to read episodic stories set in exciting countries far from home, and an Australian setting offered a glamorous backdrop for tales of high adventure. Moreover, it appears that while the nineteenth-century British reading public perceived Australia as an exotic place, then Queensland was quintessentially so. A disproportionate number of early tales about life in Australia is set in this colony, most often in the outback regions, but also in the vicinity of the coastal tropics. Nineteenth-century Queensland was viewed by the British, as well as by many Australians, as a remote outpost of Great Britain; it was commonly thought of as the least urbanised, the least “civilised”, the least industrialised and perhaps the most remote of all the regions of Australia. It was widely seen as an area of great and diverse (if also mysterious and desolate) natural beauty, of rural innocence as yet unpolluted by dark, satanic mills (even Brisbane was a sleepy, sprawling country town in picturesque contrast to the bustling southern cities of Sydney and Melbourne). Children's novelists capitalised on the mystique of Queensland, archetypal frontier colony, by creating a cluster of tales showing what it was like to be a Queensland kid.
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Rassadina, Sophia A., Daria A. Shchukina, Olga N. Bondareva, Maria N. Dmitrieva, and Natalia A. Potapova. "On lexicographic description of the toponymic variant Piter." Voprosy leksikografii, no. 23 (2022): 87–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/22274200/23/5.

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The article presents arguments for listing the lexeme Piter, an unofficial, yet rather common name for the city of St. Petersburg, in dictionaries. To substantiate their draft dictionary entry, the authors bring in research data, the Russian National Corpus (RNC), contemporary information resources, as well as results of an associative verbal experiment they conducted. Having analyzed linguistic and encyclopedic dictionaries, the authors found the lexeme either missing or marked as a “vulgar”, “vernacular”, or “colloquial” name of St. Petersburg. However, both RNC and new media equally confirm that the toponymic variant Piter is commonly used in the contemporary Russian language. Moreover, it bears certain semantic load in fiction and mass media texts and forms the context. That allows arguing for listing the lexeme Piter in dictionaries for cultural and country studies through linguistics, as well as for developing a dictionary entry that would contain a relevant cultural linguistic commentary (CLC). The authors based the CLC of their draft dictionary entry on the concept of chronotope. It helped reveal some significant differences of the lexeme Piter from other names of the city. For that purpose, the authors conducted an associative verbal experiment. As the stimuli, the experiment participants received four names of the city, St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad, Piter. 550 respondents were asked to give an equal amount of associates to each stimulus. 11 percent of those had grown up in St. Petersburg, the rest had come there from other regions of Russia, 200 cities and towns in total. Having sorted the associates received from the respondents into lexico-thematic groups and analyzed those, the authors demonstrated differences between the four variants’ content planes and described the associative verbal plane of the lexeme Piter. Within the system of semantic relations built by the four toponymic variants, the meaning of the nomination Piter is formed by two contrapositions along the axes Past - Present and Formal - Informal. The variant Piter corresponds to actual, personal, emotionally significant experience. As mentioned earlier, that aspect of meaning is missing from the existing dictionaries that cover solely stylistic features of the lexeme and lack semantic peculiarities. As a result of their research, the authors suggest a draft dictionary entry Piter for dictionaries for cultural and country studies through linguistics. The entry’s structure contains the following elements: 1) headword; 2) grammatical labels; 3) definition; 4) examples of derivation; 5) use contexts (based on RNC and the authors’ research); 6) associative potential; 7) cultural linguistic commentary (result of the research). The authors declare no conflicts of interests.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Cities and towns, fiction"

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Saar, Amy L. "Solitary Women Wanderers: Urban Stories of Resistance in Contemporary Spanish Women's Narrative." Thesis, view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3113027.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-219). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Teberg, Lisa Marie. "Show Me the Way to Go Home." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1047.

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In the following nine linked stories, characters from disparate backgrounds and socio-economic strata converge in a rural community along the Missouri river in central Montana. A Texas-based oil exploration and production company takes up residence in the area, causing a stir in the neighborhood. Long-time local residents experience their daily lives amid a tourist driven economy and reaffirm their aspirations to leave despite significant obstacles and limitations. In "Show Me the Way to Go Home," a young waitress is stranded after a car accident and seeks help from residents living on the single row of houses in the area. In "Give Death Grace," a resident artist leaves to resolve her tumultuous past with her father. In "A Good Little Fisherwoman," a woman deals with the repercussions of her recent reproductive decisions during a fishing trip. In "Little Fires," a local man deals with the tragic burn injury of a child while also facing deeply rooted resentments with his mother. In "Dwelling," an aging local must decide whether or not she will sell her home to two strangers. In "Other Important Areas of Functioning," a woman decides to discontinue her mood stabilizing medications in favor of a more natural lifestyle. While this place means something different to each of these characters, they all coexist while facing individual challenges.
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Duggan, Lucy. "Reading the city : Prague in Czech and Czech-German narrative fiction since 1989." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3827cf9c-fa91-4fb5-aa7e-8942de885729.

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In the course of its history, Prague has been the site of many significant cultural confrontations and conversations. From the medieval chronicle of Cosmas to the work of contemporary writers, the city has taken shape in literature as a multivalent space where identities are constructed and questioned. The evolution of Prague's literary significance has taken place in an intercultural context: both Czech-speaking and German-speaking writers have engaged with the city and its past, and their texts have interacted with each other. The city has played a central part in many collective narratives in which myth, history and literature intertwine. Looking at contemporary prose fiction written in both Czech and German, this thesis explores continuities and contrasts in the literary roles played by Prague. It analyses two German-speaking emigrant authors, Libuše Moníková (1945-1998) and Jan Faktor (1951- ), viewing them alongside three Czech writers, Jáchym Topol (1962- ), Daniela Hodrová (1946- ), and Michal Ajvaz (1949- ). Through close readings of eight texts, the thesis approaches the imagined city from four angles. It discusses how contemporary authors portray the search for meaning in the city by imagining Prague as two contrasting realms (the 'real' city and the 'other' city), how the discontinuities of the city are reflected by the fragmentation of the authorial stance, how these authors assemble new Prague myths from the vestiges of older topoi, and how they confront the contradictory urges to uphold the boundaries of the city and to transgress them. In post-1989 Prague, authors explore the unstable spaces between continuity and discontinuity, constructing an authorial ethos in these areas of tension.
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Shattuck, David Marks Corey. "Cities beyond." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3614.

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Levine, Nicole. "Cities in Dust." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3020.

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Cities in Dust is a collection of 15 short stories and the first two chapters of Biggest Little City, a novel-in-progress. This collection looks at queerness, gender, sex work, addiction, illness, and the effects of displacement--leaving homes, cities, relationships, and theoretical safety before we are ready. Cities in Dust works to tell stories from the space between places and the moment between moments. Transition is a city of its own.
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Glock, Birgit. "Stadtpolitik in schrumpfenden Städten : Duisburg und Leipzig im Vergleich /." Wiesbaden : VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/513898409.pdf.

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Held, Jay Allen. "Foundations of a biblical theology of city." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Shattuck, David. "Cities Beyond." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3614/.

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Chung, Kwok-wai Andrew. "Urban conservation vs. mega redevelopment : implications to Hong Kong urban designer /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25799538.

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Collins, Miriam A. "Pre-industrial towns--a spatial and functional analysis over time and space : a comparative study of nineteenth century South Australian and medieval Suffolk towns /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc7124.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Cities and towns, fiction"

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N, Mukherjee S. Calcutta : a city of splendid palaces and dingy streets: Fiction and history. Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 1987.

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Pešorda, Zrinka. Towns and cities of the Croatian Middle Ages: Image of the town in the narrative sources : reality and/or fiction? Hrvatski institut za povijest, 2017.

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ill, Ong Cristina, ed. The city never sleeps. Scholastic, 1999.

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Maria, Crossan, ed. Decapolis: Tales from ten cities. Comma Press, 2006.

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Marec, Anton. Hnali sa veky nad hradbami. Matica slovenská, 2000.

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Wiesner, Heinrich. Jaromir in einer mittelalterlichen Stadt: Schülerroman. Zytglogge, 1990.

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ill, Himler Ronald, ed. The best town in the world. Aladdin Books, 1986.

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Keene, Brian. Darkness on the edge of town. Leisure Books, 2010.

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Arce, Iliana Hernández. Alas de papel volando. La Zonámbula, 2018.

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Silva, Jailson Lima da. I Concurso literário: História do meu bairro, história do meu município. Arte & Ciência, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Cities and towns, fiction"

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Newson, Linda. "Towns and Cities." In The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras Under Spanish Rule. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429309816-14.

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Rădvan, Laurențiu. "Towns and cities." In The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429276217-15.

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Davies, Wayne K. D. "Green Towns and Cities." In Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems. Springer Netherlands, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9655-2_4.

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Wilcox, Alison. "Cities, towns and villages." In Descriptosaurus. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315107110-8.

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Nel, Etienne. "Shrinking Towns and Cities." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_162-1.

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Wassenhoven, Louis C. "Towns and Capital Cities." In The Ancestry of Regional Spatial Planning. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96995-4_3.

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Wilcox, Alison. "Cities, towns and villages." In Descriptosaurus, 4th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032707709-12.

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Nel, Etienne. "Shrinking Towns and Cities." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_162.

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Gates, Charles, and Andrew Goldman. "Aegean Bronze Age towns and cities." In Ancient Cities, 3rd ed. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429278815-9.

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Novkunskaya, Anastasia. "Giving birth in dying towns." In Postsocialist Shrinking Cities. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367815011-16.

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Conference papers on the topic "Cities and towns, fiction"

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Bubyr, Natalia. "INTERNET RESOURCES OF UKRAINIAN CITIES AND TOWNS� GREEN SPACES." In 19th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference EXPO Proceedings. STEF92 Technology, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2019/2.2/s11.109.

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Hadjimichael, George. "The colorful fields could vitalize our towns: from two-fields model to fourteen-fields model." In Virtual cities and territories. Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra and e-GEO, Research Center in Geography and Regional Planning of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University of Lisbon, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7787.

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Rokita-Poskart, Diana. "What universities towns and cities gain from students’ retention? Evidence from Opole." In XXIV. mezinárodního kolokvia o regionálních vědách. Masaryk University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9896-2021-3.

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The purpose of the study is to investigate the long run consequences of graduate’s retention by university towns and cities. It investigates hypothesis that the inflow of students to the university towns and cities among who dominate women, and their prosper to remain after graduation, cause surpluses of young women. The analysis presented in the article was conducted for Opole which is one of university towns in Opolskie Voivideship (region) in Poland. In the article, there were combined data applied – the results of the research was conducted in Opole among students and a range on statistic database from Opolskie Voivideship. The research has been conducted in 2016/2017 among more than 700 students of last academic years from all universities located in Opole. The data origins from Poland Statistics aggregated to the poviats of Opolskie region which are equivalent LAU-1. The most important findings proved that inflow of students to the towns and cities may create a huge demographic impact on the urban areas as some graduates remain in the university towns and cities after graduation. The most important is the fact that there are mostly younger women in working age population which affects the demographic potential of the urban area.
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Beltrán Carlos, Lidia, and Josep Roca Cladera. "“New Towns” para las vacaciones: repercusiones sociales de las nuevas estrategias de cambio en los destinos turísticos." In Virtual cities and territories. Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra and e-GEO, Research Center in Geography and Regional Planning of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University of Lisbon, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7710.

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El estudio proviene de una tesis de Máster del programa de Gestión y Valoración Urbana y Arquitectónica, de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Comienza haciendo un recorrido histórico por diversas “New towns” para las vacaciones, analizando sus raíces, evolución y situación actual. A continuación, profundiza en las repercusiones sociales de este tipo de destinos turísticos que están emergiendo a escala internacional, escogiendo para ello un caso de estudio concreto: Marina d’Or, en Oropesa del Mar, Castellón.
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Deltoro, Julia, Carmen Blasco Sánchez, and Francisco Martínez Pérez. "Evolution of the Urban Form in the British New Towns." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6484.

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Even if the urban experience of the British New Towns, created after the New Towns Act of 1945 as a solution to the problems derived from the superpopulation of great cities such as London, is already far in time it can still offer us some lessons. Lessons which could help us when intervening in current process of development and transformation of the urban form. This article analyses these experiences from its morphology, studying their formal characteristics and the organization of the several uses of the city, as well as the diachronic evolution of their criteria of spatial composition. The First New Towns mainly followed the characteristics stated in the Reith Report [HMSO, 1946 a] and the consequent New Towns Act [HMSO, 1946 b], which defined the scale of the new cities, their uses and zoning, location, areas, distances, social structure or landscape among other. Their urban forms evolved with time and were the result of many strategic and design decisions taken which determined and transformed their spatial and physical profiles. According to the Town and Country Planning Association [TCPA, 2014] New Towns can be classified in three Marks as for their chronology and the laws that helped to create them. But if we focus in their urban form, we can find another classification by Ali Madani-Pour, [1993] who divides them into four design phases, which give answer to different social needs and mobility. The analysis of the essential characteristics and strategies of each of the phases of the New Towns, applied to the configuration of the urban form of some of the New Towns, the ones which gather better the approach in each of the phases, will allow us to make a propositional diagnose of their different forms of development, the advances and setbacks; a comparative analysis of different aspects such as mobility and zoning, local and territorial relations, structure or composition. The conclusions of the article pretend to recognize the contributions, which come from their urban form and have them as a reference for new urban interventions in the current context, with new challenges to be faced from the integral definition of the city. References DCLG. (2006). Transferable Lessons from the New Towns. (http://www.futurecommunities.net/files/images/Transferable_lessons_from_new_towns_0.pdf.) Accessed: 14 january 2015. Gaborit, P. (2010). European New Towns: Image, Identities, Future Perspectives. (PIE-Peter Lang SA., Brussels) HMSO. Great Britain. New Towns Committee. (1946 a). Final Report of the New Towns Committee. London HMSO. Great Britain. New Towns Act. (1946 b). London Madani-Pour, Ali. (1993). `Urban Design in the British New Towns´. Open House International, vol. 18. TCPA. (2014). New Towns and Garden Cities – Lessons for Tomorrow. Stage 1: An Introduction to the UK’s New Towns and Garden Cities. (Town and Country Planning Association, London) Accessed: 15 december 2016. (https://www.tcpa.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=1bcdbbe3-f4c9-49b4-892e-2d85b5be6b87). TCPA. (2015). New Towns and Garden Cities – Lessons for Tomorrow. Stage 2: Lessons for De­livering a New Generation of Garden Cities. (Town and Country Planning Association, London) Accessed: 15 december 2016. (https://www.tcpa.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=62a09e12-6a24-4de3-973f-f4062e561e0a)
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Stricik, Michal. "EVALUATION OF MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT IN CITIES AND TOWNS IN SLOVAKIA." In 13th SGEM GeoConference on ECOLOGY, ECONOMICS, EDUCATION AND LEGISLATION. Stef92 Technology, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2013/be5.v2/s21.020.

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"Research on the development strategy of small towns around big cities." In 2017 International Conference on Materials, Energy, Civil Engineering and Computer. Francis Academic Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.25236/matecc.2017.13.

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Echenique, Marcial, Anthony Hargreaves, and Gordon Mitchell. "Sustainable cities." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7945.

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It is commonly asserted that so-called compact development is the urban form most able to&#x0D; sustainably accommodate growth by reducing travel distances and conserving land, but credible&#x0D; supportive evidence remains limited.&#x0D; This study rigorously and realistically tested the relative performance of spatial options over the&#x0D; next 30 years for three distinct kinds of English city regions. Statistical models first forecast the&#x0D; behavior of people within interacting markets for land and transport. These outputs were then&#x0D; fed to established simulation models to generate 26 indicators measuring the economic&#x0D; efficiency, resource use, social and environmental impact of the spatial options. This permitted&#x0D; an explicit comparison of the costs and benefits of compact against sprawling urban forms for&#x0D; these regions.&#x0D; While the prototypes - i.e. Compaction, Market led development (sprawl), Planned expansion&#x0D; (edge expansion and/or new towns) - were indeed found to differ in their sustainability, no one&#x0D; form was clearly superior. Rather the change to ‘white collar’ lifestyles and associated&#x0D; population growth dominates the impacts on the natural environment and resources, far&#x0D; overwhelming those attributable to spatial urban form.
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Kramarova, Zuzana. "SURVEY OF DISPERSION AREAS IN SMALL TOWNS." In 23rd SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference 2023. STEF92 Technology, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2023/6.1/s27.51.

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Dispersion areas are one of the essential elements determining the convenient coming and departure of buildings with a large number of users. However, in the legislation and normative base of the Czech Republic, they are a neglected element without clearly defined parameters. Although the legislation defines the term "dispersion area", it does not further specify it. Here again, the different environment of large and small cities in the Czech Republic is reflected. Individual large towns or cities, for example, Prague, Brno, Pilsen, and others, have developed methodologies for designing public spaces for their administrative territories. Dispersion areas can be included in these methodologies. Small towns do not have such regulations and are therefore dependent only on valid legislation, which is insufficient in this area. The university research project 02SVV22 entitled "Categorization and dimensional requirements of dispersion areas in the context of the type of buildings" was concerned with ascertaining the state of dispersion areas in front of selected types of buildings in nine small towns in the Czech Republic. The contribution reports on the course of local surveys and their results.
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Лилия, Базарьева. "CREATIVE INITIATIVES OF THE POPULATION OF SMALL CITIES IN THE PERM REGION." In MODERN CITY: POWER, GOVERNANCE, ECONOMICS. Publishing House of Perm National Research Polytechnic University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15593/65.049-66/2020.33.

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The article describes the manifestation of creative initiatives of the population of small towns of the Perm Territory in various aspects of modern life. It is emphasized that small cities have a special weight of historical and cultural plan. The article reflects the close relationship of small towns with villages and rural settlements in the administrative, cultural and socioeconomic terms. The example of a number of small cities in the Perm region shows the manifestation of creative initiatives of the population in different spheres of life of a small city and their impact on the sociocultural condition of the rural population.
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Reports on the topic "Cities and towns, fiction"

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Brown, C., E. Jackson, D. Harford, et al. Cities and towns. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/328392.

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Tarko, Andrew P., Thomas Hall, Cristhian Lizarazo, and Fernando España-Monedero. Speed Management in Small Cities and Towns—Guidelines for Indiana. Purdue University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317122.

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Many small cities and towns in rural states such as Indiana are crossed by arterial highways. The local traffic on these roads, particularly vulnerable road users, face the excessive risk of injury and death. This danger is amplified with local land development, driveways, and on-street parking in town centers. This report presents an Indiana study of the speeding problem on arterial roads passing through small communities. Past research on various countermeasures suitable for the studied conditions were identified and the connection between speed reduction and safety improvements was investigated in a sample of Indiana small towns. Promising speed-reduction measures include speed feedback signs and converging chevrons with speed limit legends marked on the pavement. Point-to-point enforcement is a modern and highly effective alternative that may be applicable on highways passing small towns if the through traffic prevails with limited interruptions. This report provides a method of evaluating the benefits of speed reduction in the studied conditions where the risk of severe injury and fatality is excessive to road users while the frequency of crashes is low. The method includes the proactive estimation of the economic benefit. The results indicate that both the local and through traffic on highways passing a small town benefit considerably from speed reduction even after accounting for the loss of time. An Excel spreadsheet developed in the study facilitates the calculations.
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Wauchope, Barbara, and Sally Ward. Mapping food insecurity and food sources in New Hampshire cities and towns. University of New Hampshire Libraries, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.34051/p/2020.163.

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Bai, Jie, Stéphane Milhaud, and Lou D’Angelo. Human Settlements in Mongolia: Strengthening Strategic Cities and Towns for Sustainable Territorial Development. Asian Development Bank, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps230588-2.

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This paper proposes an urban framework for Mongolia to promote balanced and sustainable territorial development. The framework addresses the dysfunctions in the urban hierarchy and settlement system of aimag and soum centers that emerged during the transition period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and identifies what types of investment should be favored in these areas.
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Donati, Kelly, and Nick Rose. Growing Edible Cities and Towns: A Survey of the Victorian Urban Agriculture Sector. Sustain: The Australian Food Network, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.57128/miud6079.

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This report presents findings from a survey of urban agriculture practitioners in greater Melbourne (including green wedge areas), Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong. The findings provide baseline data regarding the composition, activities, market channels, challenges, needs and aspirations of the urban agriculture sector, as well as opportunities for its support and growth. The report also proposes a roadmap for addressing critical challenges that face the sector and for building on the strength of its social and environmental commitments, informed by the survey findings and relevant academic literature on urban agriculture. This report’s findings and recommendations are of relevance to policymakers at all levels of government, especially as food security, climate change, human and ecological health and urban sustainability emerge as key interconnected priorities in this challenging decade.
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TARAKANOVA, V., A. ROMANENKO, and T. TROITSKAYA. FACTORS AND RISKS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY OF THE CITIES OF THE MOSCOW REGION. Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2022-14-2-2-19-29.

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In this paper it’s the first time the authors have reviewed linguistic literature (2008-2022) devoted to the problem of literary and electronic hypertext. The purpose of the paper is to review linguistic literature and identify the current state of the problem of literary and electronic hypertext. Materials and methods. On the basis of this purpose we reviewed 42 scientific papers published in 2008-2022 and representing the results of linguistic research of literary and electronic hypertext. For our study we used an analytical and descriptive method, which is traditional for linguistics and allows us to solve the tasks set in our paper. Results. A review of linguistic papers has shown that hypertext is a relevant subject of linguistic research. Scientists propose various definitions of this concept; consider it as a “special information and communication environment”. Many studies are devoted to literary (fiction and non-fiction) hypertext, however, a much larger number of papers are devoted to various aspects of electronic hypertext, including electronic fiction hypertext and electronic hypertext of some genres (news genres, online advertising, social network and online diary community as well as websites). We consider that it is the electronic environment where hypertext is implemented in all its functions. Practical implications. The results of the study can be used as a theoretical basis for further theoretical and practical study of various aspects of literary and electronic hypertext.
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Crucini, Mario, and Gregor Smith. Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration: Evidence from US Cities and Swedish Towns, 1732-1860. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w20247.

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Paredes, Juan Roberto, María Clara Ramos, Marina Robles, and Emma Näslund-Hadley. School Green Areas. Inter-American Development Bank, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006244.

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The World Health Organization says that all cities and towns should have a minimum of 9 square meters (m2) of green space per person. In Latin America there are 3.5 m2 per capita. What is it like in your town?
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Vuithier, Alix. Strengthening Cross-Border Cooperation in the Nordic Region: Analysis of Three Case Studies on the Swedish Border. Nordregio, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/r2024:15.1403-2503.

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Cross-border municipalities in Sweden and its Nordic neighbours are already well integrated. They have strong links and cooperate closely, in particular through cross-border committees involving local and regional authorities or through direct cooperation at the municipal level. However, issues hindering greater integration of cross-border municipalities and regions remain. This study focuses on three cases in the Swedish-Finnish, Swedish-Norwegian and Swedish-Danish border regions that face different topographical challenges. Through interviews with local and regional stakeholders, the main challenges with regard to furthering cross-border integration were identified. In this report, our research focuses on the following key questions: -What national support for urban-urban development across borders is needed by border towns and cities? -What coordination efforts (horizontal and vertical) are needed to achieve sustainable and green urban development in Nordic cross-border towns and cities? -What policy recommendations can be made based on the existing needs in border municipalities?
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Kwon, Heeseo Rain, Heeyoun You, and Sang Keon Lee. Korea's Pursuit for Sustainable Cities through New Town Development: Implications for LAC: Knowledge Sharing Forum on Development Experiences: Comparative Experiences of Korea and Latin America and th. Inter-American Development Bank, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006999.

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Under rapid urbanization that took place from around 1960 to 1990, the Republic of Korea has been facing various urban problems such as the expansion of urban slum, traffic congestion and environmental pollution. Among the various responses to these challenges, New Town development can be regarded as one of the most successful and effective strategies, which hasover 50 years of development history in five phases. Korea's New Towns were developed with three main purposes according to the periodic needs: industry support, housing supply, and nationwide balanced development. Phase I New Towns (1962-81) responded to the country's need for industry promotion. Phase II (1967-86), Phase III (1989-95) and Phase IV (2001-present) New Towns were built in response to the severe lack of housing emerged due to over-concentration in the capital and later its metropolitan area, by providing large-scale housing inside Seoul, in the outer ring of Seoul, and in the Capital Area respectively over time. Finally, the most recent Phase V New Towns (2005-present) provided response to the issue of equitable and balanced development across the country. These development yielded outcomes such as housing market stabilization, improvement of housing condition, securement of public and green spaces, economic effect on related industries, and expansion of urban infrastructure. The paper suggests three success factors of Korea's New Town development. First is feasible planning and concrete implementation strategies that enabled the implementing organizations to overcome conflicts and carry on with the project until completion. The second factor is institutional driving force and legal support which involved establishing a dedicated bureau, defining clear organizational structure and stakeholder roles, and providing timely Acts to support the land acquisition and construction. The third success factor is reasonable land acquisition methodologies which evolved over time from Land Readjustment to Publically Management Development. This paper also presents Sustainable New own Design Criteria as an important implication for the LAC to consider, which includes social, economic and environmental sustainability that pursue outcomes such as social inclusion, self-sufficiency, connectivity, green space and smart resource management. Exchanging these experience of Korea and promoting mutual cooperation would be highly valuable for the cities in LAC to minimize the trial and error and maximize the success factors experienced by Korea as an attempt to relieve the challenges of rapid urbanization they are faced with at present. In this regard, it is anticipated that Korea can actively share its accumulated New Town experience and knowledge and act as one of the promising development partners of the countries in LAC.
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