VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2(11) / May 2009

EDITORIAL NOTE

Sofia COLESCA

INFORMAL HOUSING IN GREECE: A QUANTITATIVE SPATIAL ANALYSIS

Serafeim POLYZOS & Dionysios MINETOS

FINANCING COMMUNITY FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE PARKS AND RECREATIONAL GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND MEASURE OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

Shishir MATHUR

URBAN PLANNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES: AN OVERVIEW

Xueming CHEN

RETHINKING PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE: A GLIMMER OF LIGHT FOR PROSPECTS OF INTEGRATED PLANNING TO COMBAT COMPLEX URBAN REALITIES

Ahmed Baha' El-Deen ABUKHATER

TERRORIST THREATS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Ioan NAŞCU

THE SMART CITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT & MONITORING

Mahmoud AL-HADER & Ahmad RODZI

INDUSTRIAL AREAS. A SURVEY, ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL OF THE POTENTIAL FOR CONVERSION OF DISUSED INDUSTRIAL AREAS IN TICINO

Enrico SASSI, Francesco VISMARA Nicoletta, Ossanna CAVADINI & Josep ACEBILLO

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND URBAN MANAGEMENT

Carmen RĂDUŢ & Ramona CHIŢU

SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES OF INTEREST-FREE MICRO-FINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION. THE BANGLADESH PERSPECTIVE

Jannat Ara PARVEEN

CLUSTERS – A NEW FORM OF REGIONS DEVELOPMENT IN SLOVAKIA

Darina CHLEBÍKOVÁ & Janka MRÁZIKOVÁ

BETWEEN HISTORY AND TOWN-PLANNING: DANITIS, MACCABEES, SADDUCEES, MEDICIS, SURICIS, CHRISTIANS AND MARRANOS IN TERRA DI LAVORO IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Giancarlo BOVA

CHALLENGES OF URBAN PLANNING AT THE FACE OF COUNTER-URBANIZATION

Kazi Saiful ISLAM

BOOK REVIEW ON: CITIES AS SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEMS: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES AUTHORS: PETER NEWMAN, ISABELLA JENNINGS

Ionela Georgiana ŞTEFAN