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Reurbanisation refers to the movement of people back into an urban area that has been previously abandoned. [1] Reurbanisation is usually a government's initiative to counter the problem of inner city decline.
Nationalization may produce other effects, such as reducing competition in the marketplace, which in turn reduces incentives to innovation and maintains high prices. In the short run, nationalization can provide a larger revenue stream for government but may cause that industry to falter depending on the motivations of the nationalizing party.
1868 Nationalisation of inland telegraphs under the General Post Office with the Telegraph Act 1868. [69] 1875 Suez Canal Company - The Egyptian share in the company was bought by the government. 1912 Nationalisation of National Telephone Company under the GPO, apart from Portsmouth and Hull. The Portsmouth telephone service was nationalised ...
Clare J.A. Mitchell, an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Waterloo, argues that in Europe, counterurbanization involves a type of migration leading to deconcentration of one area to another that is beyond suburbanization or metro decentralization. Mitchell categorizes counterurbanization into three sub ...
The term "urban consolidation" first appears in social science and urban planning literature around the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of the existing literature on urban consolidation comes from Australia; some of the world's first government-official urban consolidation policies were enacted in Sydney and Melbourne to increase construction of higher-density terrace housing in the ...
A Look At Japan's Reverse Housing Crisis Where Millions Of Homes Sit Vacant. Japan's housing industry is facing the reality that it is possible to have "too much of a good thing."
Informal housing is often built incrementally, as householders acquire the resources, time and security to build additions and enhancements. [ 9 ] Many cities in the developing world are experiencing a rapid increase in informal housing, driven by mass migration to cities in search of employment or fleeing from war or environmental disaster .
Land reform may consist of a government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution, generally of agricultural land.Land reform can, therefore, refer to transfer of ownership from the more powerful to the less powerful, such as from a relatively small number of wealthy or noble owners with extensive land holdings (e.g., plantations, large ranches, or agribusiness plots) to ...