Land titling programs are increasingly encouraged by international organizations as an essential component of urban policy in developing countries. The clear definition of property rights is argued to be a sine qua non of economic development. However, most academic research on land titles has...

The existence of constraints affecting the social services in developing countries is only too obvious. Neither donor nor recipient countries have yet paid sufficient attention to this sphere in the context of development policy. Practicable planning proposals are therefore put forward in the...

Diese geographische Arbeit untersucht die Universitätsstädte Köln, Göttingen, Münster, Bochum, Konstanz und Essen. Sie will vom Standpunkt des Geographen aus, jedoch unter Beachtung interdisziplinärer Aspekte, einen Beitrag zum Studium der vielfältigen wechselseitigen Verflechtungen...

The economic problems of increasing urbanisation are presently the subject of active discussion - in other industrialised and in developing countries no less than in the Federal Republic of Germany. The following article deals with the special features of the development in the Federal Republic.