This paper analyzes planning and design techniques of tourism complexes in the process of municipalities' master planning. First, it explains the importance of the tourism industry with the help of the theories of scholars and experts. Then, it emphasizes the link between the economic...

Beyond fostering economic growth, policymakers in Malaysia have had to grapple conceptually and operationally with income inequalities between different parts of the country. Beyond its complexity, this challenge has also changed over time - in line with Malaysia's increasing wealth and...

This paper discusses policy implications from the empirical results obtained in the preceding tasks and, in particular, from a survey among city representatives and representatives of migrant organizations in 40 European cities. It argues that cultural diversity is a distinct aspect of migration...

Through the last year's global economical changes, population growth, and the need for allocation of resources towards population; have promoted the interest for the acceleration of economical regional development for the cities through new processes, some of which have to exceed the boundaries...

The urban and regional influence of contemporary passengers, goods and information traffic within the new global economy based on knowledge and logistics, and the physical structures that shape the networks (harbours, airports, train stations, motorways) are assumed as capitally important....

The paper is devoted to problems of ensuring balanced and sustainable development of a very specific and important metropolitan region of the Russian Federation - the region of St Petersburg and surrounding it Leningrad Oblast. St.Petersburg (City) and Leningrad Oblast (Region) are both...