The “South-Italian City” — a cultural-genetic type of city
The “South-Italian city” is characterized at four different levels as an independent cultural-genetic city-type:1.The characteristics arrangement of the functional areas and the residential areas of different social groups is represented in a model.2.From the model, developments and changes in the arrangement of the functional areas can be identified which clearly deviate from those which are derived from the universal city model.3.Some of the structural individuality can be directly explained by the peculiar features of the respective social and economic history.4.Some of the special features must, however, be traced back to a wider historico-cultural background. Through this run processes which flow through the universal city development in similar forms, to the deviating structure of the “South-Italian city”.
The persistence of palazzi and intra-urban structures in Tuscany and Sicily
Abstract The persistence of old buildings in historic town centres raises important questions for urban geographers. Do they obstruct changes in function dictated by economic forces? Are they redeveloped when the capital invested in them has been amortized? Can descendants of the original owners afford to live in them, maintain them in good repair and adopt them to new uses? Are new owners willing to take them over, preserve their appearance and find profitable uses for them? A study of palazzi in Florence and Catania discusses differences in the changing utilization of former upper-class residences. In Florence a large number of palazzi built by merchants in the pre-industrial period have persisted in the present town centre. While many are still lived in by upper-class families, most have added new central urban functions. In Florence palazzi retain a dominant role in the intra-urban structure. In Catania palazzi built by feudal landowners have been abandoned by upper-class occupants and have failed to attract high-ranking urban functions. The historic town centre has decayed while central functions have moved to expensive modern buildings mostly situated on the outskirts. Different economic ideas and attitudes held by the upper classes in Tuscany and in Sicily account for contrasts in the roles of palazzi in the two towns.
The Ecology of Bangalore, India: An East-West Comparison
than do the girls. We suggest that the absence of significant difference as to sex distribution at the senior level is attributable to attachment to City High School based upon length of attendance and shared equally by boys and girls. If the foregoing speculations were accepted, we should have to broaden the area of sociological knowledge from which our hypotheses were derived. We should have to include considerations drawn from the study of small groups and from the study of minority groups, as well as those emerging from the study of socio-economic status groups. But again, as with the question of the relevancy of the data used to test the major hypothesis, the degree of validity of these speculations can only be demonstrated by further, more intensive research.