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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Bogota"”.
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Urban dwelling environments : Bogota, Colombia.
Thesis. 1976. M.ArchAS--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Housing Quality and Tenure Choice in Bogota
… of the housing market equilibrium in the city of Bogota. We show that the tenure choice decision can be largely explained by the price of renting relative to owning and the permanent income. We find evidence that the poorer households delay home purchasing in contrast to the wealthier households, …
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Urban infrastructure growth in developing countries; case study: Bogota, Colombia.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1974. M.Arch.A.S.
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Articulating the urban boundary : integrating Bogota with Los Cerros Orientales
… of mountains that spans the eastern edge of Bogota are the most iconic and monumental feature of the city. They were also critical in the city's history as they provided the resources to support the original settlements, supplied the materials to build the city and dictated its urban form. …
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Living Together: A Capability Approach to Spatially Segregated Areas of Bogota
The rapid and ongoing process of urbanisation in Bogota has brought about significant socio-spatial segregation between city-dwellers. Such segregation is becoming increasingly complex as patterns of fragmentation are evolving towards a more ‘cellular’ differentiation between rich and poor –urban …
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Valuing flexibility in infrastructure developments : the Bogota water supply expansion plan.
… of the expansion of the water supply system for Bogota, Colombia. This study illustrates the application of each methodology and identifies the policy challenges relevant to infrastructure investment evaluation in Colombia and other emerging economies. The study confirms the hypothesis that NPV …
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Segmentation strategies in urban retail : an application to nanostores in Bogota
… market, focusing on a pilot company located in Bogota, Colombia. This study introduces two segmentation strategies: 1) a sketch segmentation strategy based on a basic ordering pattern analysis combined with an extended value matrix, sourced from a customer value matrix created by Marcus (1998); …
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Understanding change : public space constructin in Bogota, Colombia, the Plaza de San Victorino
Bogotá is a city that has seen rapid change in the recent years. By the 1990’s the city’s public space was in crisis and its elements were being used in inappropriate ways; some were even been illegally privatized. Inside the city’s multiple ills, a politically driven set of changes began to …
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Prevalencia de desórdenes musculo esqueleticos en trabajadores de una empresa avícola de Bogota , Colombia
INTRODUCCIÓN: la industria del procesamiento avícola es una actividad donde se realizan múltiples tareas repetitivas y se mantiene un tiempo prolongado en bipedestación, lo que aumenta el riesgo de sufrir lesiones musculo-esqueléticas en extremidades superiores y espalda baja, ocasionando en los …
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Jorge Eliecer Gaitan and his term as mayor of Bogota, Colombia, June 1936 to February 1937
… activity of Gaitan: the Colombian capital, Bogota. The second is a biographical study of Gaitan. The third examines the impact of Gaitan on Bogata during his term as mayor. An epilogue briefly discusses Gaitan after his mayoralty.</p>
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The use of address pronouns in Bogota: A comparative study of two stages of acquisition by nonnative speakers
… (NNI), 23 Spanish learners who have lived in Bogota for a period of no less than four months (NNB), and 10 college students from Bogota (NB). The variables included in this research were the between subjects-variable group membership and the within subjects variables age, status, …
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Economic analysis of a land value capture system used to finance road infrastructure: The case of Bogota, Colombia
"Bogota is a city that faces many problems, among them severe deficiencies in its road infrastructure. Financing of road infrastructure has been possible in part through a land value capture mechanism called ""valorization charges"". The purpose of this thesis is to analyze this financial tool from …
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Laborers, Rogues, and Lovers: Encounters With Indigenous Subjects Through Jural Webs and Writing in Colonial Santa Fe De Bogota
To understand the erasure of indigenous urbanites from official and academic representations and to situate their notorious presence in obscure manuscripts, this inquiry approaches its main sources, legal documents, as writings, embodiments of discourses, and inscriptions of practices. In so doing, …
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The power of context and location : a spatial approach to model the market for new housing in Bogota, Colombia
… to analyze the market for new housing in Bogota, Colombia and address limitations of currently available research that is not sensitive to underlying spatial determinants in this city. The overall purpose of this investigation is to provide a framework to evaluate this market from a …
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Social Disorganization and the Public Level of Crime Control: A Spatial Analysis of Ecological Predictors of Homicide Rates in Bogota, Colombia
… to the spatial distribution of homicides in Bogota, Colombia, while proposing alternative measures of social disorganization that are analogous to those used in the American literature but that are more reflective of both social realities and data availability in Colombia. The study used data …
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Validity and reliability of the international fItness scale (IFIS) in a population-based sample of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia: The FUPRECOL study
… a population-based sample of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia. Participants were 1,875 Colombian youth (56.2% girls) aged 9 to 17.9 years old. We measured adiposity markers (body fat, waist-to-height ratio, skinfold thicknesses and BMI), blood pressure, lipids profile, fasting glucose, and …
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Effects of public policies on informal and formal urban expansion. A comparative impact evaluation between neighborhood legalization and slum upgrading policies in Bogota-Colombia
Una de las principales características de la historia reciente de las ciudades latinoamericanas ha sido la rápida y descontrolada expansión de la ciudad informal e ilegal, que, sólo en el caso de Bogotá, ha provocado un déficit habitacional de más de 352.000 hogares (14 % de la población de la …
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Policy learning : new challenges for smart value capture in Colombia
… the research unpacks the experience in Bogota with SA and sheds light on alternate approaches for PLVI's current managers to address the new instrument's challenging implementation arena. The findings of the study suggest that for PLVI to evolve and consolidate as a policy instrument in …
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