CITIES

VOLUME 16 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 1999 SPECIAL ISSUE: CITIES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE GLOBAL INFORMATION AGE

Editorial 1 Surfing Mainstreet Andrew Kirby

Papers 3 Adopting innovations in information technology: The California municipal

experience Roger W. Caves and Marco G. Walshok

13 Smart cities: The Singapore case

A run Mahi^hnan

19 Mexican cities in cyberspace Fernanda Gutierrez. and Enrique Daltabuit

33 Telecommunications: A realistic strategy for the revitalization of American

cities Zenia Kotval

43 Creating technology-based enterprise televillages: Post-modem regional

development theory Grant Ledge rwood and Arlene Idol Broadhurst

Viewpoint 51 Urban form in traditional Islamic cultures: Further studies needed for

formulating theory Besim S Hakim

City profile 57 Tehran All Madanipour

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VOLUME 16 NUMBER 2 APRIL 1999

Editorial 67 the City as...Pornography?
Andrew Kirby

Guest Editorial 69 Indonesian cities under the "Krismon": A great "urban crisis" in Southeast Asia

Tommy Firman

Papers 83 The accessibility of the government-sponsored support programmes for small

and medium-sized enterprises in Penang
Moha Asri Abdullah

93 Utilization of urban residential land: a case study of Singapore

Kwame Addae-Dapaah

103 Community-based environmental management in a megacity: Considering

Calcutta
Samiul Hasan and M. Adil Khan

111 The State, urban development policy and society in Cameroon

Ambe J. Njoh

city profile 123 Maseru, Lesotho
Sam Romaya and A I is on Brown

Book reviews 135 Partnership Agencies in British Urban Policy By N. Baily, A. Barker and K.
MacDonald (Nick Oatley); Changing Plans for America's Inner Cities:
Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth Century Urbanism By Zane L
Miller and Brace Tucker (David P. Varady); The Encyclopedia of Housing By
Willem van Vliet (Professor K. Coit)

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VOLUME 16 NUMBER 3 JUNE 1999

Editorial 141 Amateur sports, professional economic developers
Andrew Kirby

Papers 143 Globalization and the European city

Donald McNeill

149 Global economy, metropolitan dynamics and urban policies in Mexico

Gustavo Garza

171 Institutional capacity and metropolitan governance: the Greater Toronto Area

Gwyndaf Williams

181 The changing morphology of commercial activity in Istanbul

Nebahat Tokatli and Yonca Boyaci

Viewpoint 195 The future of democracy and global governance depends on widespread public

knowledge about local links to the world
Chadwick F. Alger

City profile 207 Shanghai
Weiping Wu

Conference report 217 'Towards local sustainability in Central and Eastern Europe' Sofia, Bulgaria,

12-15 November 1998
Barbara Anton

Book review 219 Japanese Urban Environment By Golany, Gideon S., Hanaki, Keisuke and

Koide, Osamu (eds.,) (Roman Cybriwsky)

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VOLUME 16, NUMBER 4, AUGUST 1999



Editorial 221 Quality of life in cities
Andrew Kirby
Introduction
Lim Lan Yucm cmd Foo Tuun Seik



Papers 223 Changing patterns of urban public space. Observations and assessments from
the Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas
Roman Cybriwsky ,



233 The future of the underground space
Sanja Durmisevic



247 Lynch revisited. New urbanism and theories of good city form
Larry R. Ford



259 City building in the East and West. United States, Europe, Hong Kong and
Singapore compared
Anne Haila



269 Air quality management systems in urban regions: an analysis of RECLAIM in
Los Angeles and its transferability to Vienna
Andreas Zerlauth and U\ve Schubert


City profile 285 Brisbane
Robert J. Stimson and Shane P. Taylor



Book review 297 Urban Development in Asia. Retrospect and Prospect
Yue-man Yeung (ed)

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