Middle English Dialectology: Essays on Some Principles and Problems

Reference

McIntosh, Angus

Samuels, M. L.

LAING, Margaret

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Aberdeen Univ Pr

Towns and Cities: Competing for survival

The last fifty years have seen dramatic changes in towns and cities. People have moved out of central urban areas, retailing has moved out of towns and jobs have also declined in city centres, particularly with the growth of business and science parks. With the continuing decline of the manufacturing sector and the re-shaping of employment in the service sector, a new force will increasingly dominate urban development, the meritocratic elite. The meritocratic elite are those able to develop and use information technology to generate productivity and wealth. Where they wish to live will increasingly influence future urban development.Towns and Cities - Competing for survival suggests that as public and private corporations continue to downsize, outsource and re-engineer themselves, an increasing amount of expenditure and employment growth will lie with the leisure sector. Herein lies one of the solutions to the decline of towns and cities.Town planners and economists have continually displayed a lack of understanding of these developments and have not anticipated the forces which cause urban change. As the global econonmy, combined with changes in transport and information technology increasingly dominates our lives, local and national governments need a new agenda for the 21st century. If they fail to rise to this challenge many of our town and city centres will continue to decline and may not survive.

Politics & Social Sciences

McIntosh, Dr Angus

Social Sciences

Taylor&Francis

Towns and Cities: Competing for Survival

<p>The last fifty years have seen dramatic changes in towns and cities. People have moved out of central urban areas, retailing has moved out of towns and jobs have also declined in city centres, particularly with the growth of business and science parks. With the continuing decline of the manufacturing sector and the re-shaping of employment in the service sector, a new force will increasingly dominate urban development, the meritocratic elite. The meritocratic elite are those able to develop and use information technology to generate productivity and wealth. Where they wish to live will increasingly influence future urban development.Towns and Cities - Competing for survival suggests that as public and private corporations continue to downsize, outsource and re-engineer themselves, an increasing amount of expenditure and employment growth will lie with the leisure sector. Herein lies one of the solutions to the decline of towns and cities.Town planners and economists have continually displayed a lack of understanding of these developments and have not anticipated the forces which cause urban change. As the global econonmy, combined with changes in transport and information technology increasingly dominates our lives, local and national governments need a new agenda for the 21st century. If they fail to rise to this challenge many of our town and city centres will continue to decline and may not survive.</p>

Self-Help

<p>Of course, you've trained with various martial arts weapons, staff, sword, etc., but when can you actually carry and use them outside of the dojo? You can't, at least not without running into issues with the law. Learn to convert your traditional weapons forms and practice to a practical modern day one that you can take and use in the real world, the humble cane. You can see how to incorporate the cane into your current training and learn the 31 Cane Kata for an everyday practice with a cane.</p>

Swords to Canes

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

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Enough Already: Change, Meditation, & Transcendence (Testament of the Temple of the Circus Monkey)

Personal Transformation

The BadAss Cane: The Only Weapon You Can Take Anywhere (The Testaments of the Temple of the Circus Monkey)

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