The population of English-born persons living in Scotland has risen rapidly since 1971. The dynamics of the group are theorised in this paper relative to the escalator region hypothesis, in terms of the role of professional and managerial staff linking global cities with lower-order urban centres...
For comparability with other large cities around the world, Greater Atlanta has been defined as the entire urban area including and surrounding Atlanta, Smyrna, Marietta, Decatur, Forest Park, College Park and smaller incorporated cities in the central metropolitan area. This is a vast and rapidly...
000years ago.Nobody is advocating allowing elephants and lions to run crazily in big cities.But supporters would give free control to a long list of small mammals,including the beaver and lynx,which some people fear could be dangerous.Some landowners are worried at the thought of beavers ...
People who live in conservation areas, including those in cities, will be able to more easily alter or replace their windows to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. They will also be able to install solar panels on certain parts of their property without a planning application for the...
International Journal of Population GeographyFINDLAY, A. M., STOCKDALE, A. and STEWART, E. (2002) Professional and managerial migration from core to periphery: the case of English migration to Scottish cities, International Jour- nal of Population Geography, 8, pp. 217-232....
Eco-tourism is booming in the Scottish Highlands— and its wealth of sustainable experiences celebrates the region’s rich biodiversity and unsung heroes of the land.
In 2007, mankind reached a profoundly important mark: for the first time in our history, there were more people living in cities and towns than in rural areas. This transformation happened remarkably fast, considering that in the 1800s over 90% of the world’s population was rural (World Ur...
000years ago.Nobody is advocating allowing elephants and lions to run crazily in big cities.But supporters would give free control to a long list of small mammals,including the beaver and lynx,which some people fear could be dangerous.Some landowners are worried at the thought of beavers ...
For comparability with other large cities around the world, Cape Town has been defined as the Cape Peninsula together with the northern suburbs from Bloubergstrand in the west to Durbanville and Kraaifontein in the east, the built-up areas of the Cape Flats and the Eersterivier-Somerset West ...
And most of those 5.3 million people live in or near three cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee. In the Highlands, which cover most of Scotland, the population is very thin. In many places — if there is actually a road — you can drive for over 30 kilometres without seeing any ...