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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Asian cities"”.
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The factors determining office investment markets in South-East Asian cities : with reference to Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur
… has concentrated on European and North America cities. SouthEast Asia and its cities have largely been ignored. The few studies that have been conducted rely mainly on econometric modelling. However, opportunities in the user and investor office markets are influenced by non-econometric factors …
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Continuities and discontinuities in urban development institutions : a case study of Lahore Development Authority
… in urban development and planning in South Asian cities. Pakistan and India share a history and have experienced the similar trend of Town Improvement Trusts established by the British transforming into Development Authorities. Both these forms of institutions had a similar mandate --
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Power, participation and everyday politics within state-led urban renewal in Hong Kong
… utilises the inter-referenced urbanisms of other Asian cities to articulate and legitimise their urban aspirations. Notably, other competing interest groups also inter-reference other Asian cities to challenge the form and function of the URA, and this challenges and reinforces its …
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Electric vehicle technology in Kathmandu, Nepal : a closer look at development
… ways. Its success led other South and East Asian cities to view it as a model for implementing EVs to alleviate air pollution. Yet despite a promising beginning and intensive proliferation, the EV industry was failing only six years after its inception. What went wrong with a development …
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Urban Sustainability in Transformation: A Case Study of Seoul
While cities across the world are adopting urban sustainability plans and pursuing ‘sustainable development,’ the question of how these urban sustainability plans have made our cities indeed sustainable is a subject of debate. Some scholars are skeptical about whether urban sustainability planning …
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Skycourts and skygardens: towards a vertical urban theory
… is a phenomenon increasingly being realised in Asian cities, and has started to redefine the tall building within the city. This thesis focuses on two semi-‐public social spaces that cross the urban-‐architectural-‐landscape boundaries -‐ skycourts and skygardens. It considers them in light …
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Making the Modern Slum: Housing, Mobility, and Poverty in Bombay and its Peripheries
… and slums which have long stigmatized South Asian cities. It focuses on the emergence of markets in housing through the 19th and early 20th centuries in Bombay primarily, and Karachi and Aden secondarily. It is the first historical study of slums, or poor and stigmatized housing, in colonial …
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800mm luxury : pencil tower phenomenon in Hong Kong, China
… buildings. They are commonly found in high-dense Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. Focusing on Hong Kong as the context of research, this thesis explored the causes, implications and possibilities of invention in this phenomenon. Pencil Tower is a hyper-specific typology. …
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The value chain in the Asian online gaming industry: a case study of Taiwan
This research examines the changing nature of the Asian online gaming industry and the position of Taiwan in the regional market. The evidence used was gathered through fieldwork conducted in Taiwan, Beijing and Shanghai from January to October in 2007. Firstly, it explores the situation from the …
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Shanghaization of Mumbai: visions, displacements, contestations
… in world politics and the global market and cities are viewed as key actors in sustaining this growth. In this context, growth gets normalized, masking its inequities, unevenness, and contestations. Therefore, any serious discussion about inclusive growth in emerging economies has to take …
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The Accommodation City : Private Low-income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai
Cities in the Global South are understood as a mélange of paradoxical typologies between slums and high rises. Both in urban theory and practice, these symbolizations are classified respectively as informal and formal. However, as scholars like Ananya Roy and Colin McFarlane have shown, these …
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Making Men in the City: Articulating Masculinity and Space in Urban India
… inequalities and violence prevalent in South Asian cities today. I follow the lives of young men between 16 and 30 in a neighborhood in the eastern part of Pune, who belong to a scheduled caste called Matang. The historical incorporation of this caste group as municipal sweepers in the city’s …
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Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd : Contemporary urban conditions with special reference to thai homosexuality
Major Asian cities like Hong Kong, Taipei and Bangkok have been constantly on the verge of rapid transformation, whether politically, socially, and particularly sexually, due to the process of capitalisation, modernisation, and globalisation over the last decade. In response to the impact of the …
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Resource recovery from sanitation to amplify development: Navigating global and local possibilities
… cycles will require transport of nutrients from cities to surrounding cropland. Estimated transport distances across 56 of the world’s largest cities span two orders of magnitude and are often shorter among European, African, and Asian cities due to factors such as high local cropland density and …