Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a means of enhancing sustainability has been the topic of a model project promoted by the EU during the late 1990s. Meanwhile, all member states areurged by an EU recommendation to develop national ICZM strategies, based on a set of criteria derived...

Die Höhenkliniken in Davos sind als Artefakte aus einer Kurgeschichte hervorgegangen, welche im Jahre 1853 begonnen hat. Damals hat Alexander Spengler, welcher 1848 nach der badischen Revolution von Deutschland nach Davos geflohen ist, sehr bald die gesunde Wirkung des Davoser Klimas erkannt....

Die gebaute Umwelt repräsentiert immense kulturelle und wirtschaftlicheWerte. Der Marktwert der Schweizer Immobilien ohne Infrastrukturbautenübersteigt die Kapitalisierung der an der Schweizer Börse gehandelten Aktien und Obligationen bei weitem. Eine Analyse der Schweizer...

Storey (1994) reviews a number of socio-economic variables that have been widely hypothesised toimpact upon small business formation. These are:- population (change, density, age structure)unemployment, wealth, education, industrial structure, and public policy. These factors are consideredwith...

Aim of this paper is to describe the present status of using statistics by metropolitan and regional governments in the Federal Republic of Germany FRG in order to promote or prevent special decisions. Methodological approach is: Exemplarily it is focused an actual planning procedure going over...

Dieses Diskussionspapier basiert auf einer Studie für das Stadtplanungsamt der Stadt Dresden.

The shrinking and ageing of urban populations is a worldwide phenomenon,and in Japan it is a central problem not only for the future but already atpresent. In contrast to the large, dynamic cities of Japan, the mass of smaller citieswith fewer than 200,000 inhabitants – in particular those...

This paper is an abstract of the study made for the MAster of Science in real Estate delivered by the Center for Urban and Real Estate Management (CUREM) in Zurich. The Goal was to analyze the relation between big infrastructure and urban development, using a real case. The chosen area for this...

In the real estate development process are several key actors involved who have different conceptions of how and which kind of value within the real estate projects is to be obtained. Architects focus on the aesthetic quality of buildings and define value as contribution to the cultural...