Decentralization and polarization: Contradictory trends in Hong Kong's postcolonial social landscape

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A study investigates how the population of Hong Kong is affected by the post-colonial social and economic changes. Factor analysis of the 2001 census provides data which demonstrates that while the distinction between the traditional rural areas like the New Territories and the traditional urban areas such as Hong Kong Island and Kowloon has become blurred, a strong spatial polarization has also emerged.

Hong Kong, Population, Analysis, Cluster analysis, Decentralization in government, Government decentralization

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Political decentralization, municipal fragmentation, and the geography of real estate investment in Caracas, Venezuela

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Political and economic decentralization policies in Caracas, Venezuela, have encouraged fragmentation of the city into several municipal government units in the final decade of the 20th century. These units do not always share developmental strategy but this situation has created new political spaces for previously ignored groups.

Venezuela, Economic aspects, Real estate development, Caracas, Venezuela

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Introduction - Digression analysis: A decidedly editorial introduction to the symposium on the states of urban geography: Dispatches from the field

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The Urban Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) organized a panel for the 2004 annual meeting of the AAG in Philadelphia. The significance of urban geography to the production and application of geographic knowledge was discussed.

Pennsylvania, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Urban geography, Association of American Geographers

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