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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Commercial centers"”.
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Revitalizing downtown commercial centers in suburban Boston
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Trade and agriculture policy options to improve the wheat subsector in Afghanistan
… bring greater instability) and stockpiling in commercial centers.</p> <p>In this research we assess the impacts of trade and stockholding policies on market outcomes in Afghanistan. Prior to assessing these stabilization policies, we use a VECM model to assess price transmission signals from …
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Suburban revisions : redesigning suburban strip malls
… order to unlock the potential for suburban strip centers to be places that help us orient ourselves and connect to our world, I have developed a set of prototypes for the infill of existing strip malls in suburban strip commercial centers. These prototypes act as a systematic tool for the possible …
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Bronze metallurgy in Iron Age central Europe : a metallurgical study of Early Iron Age bronzes from Stična, Slovenia.
… Slovenia was one of the first incipient commercial centers to take advantage of the new importance placed on iron, conducting trade with Italy, Greece, the Balkans, and northern Europe. This metallurgical study of bronze funerary objects from Sticna identifies construction techniques, use …
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A framework for community design : Worcester's Main South neighborhood
… necessary to support a viable community: commercial centers, open space, and institutional facilities. These guidelines will allow development of the site at an architectural scale.
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The effect of contemporary supermarket formats (superstores) on surrounding residential property values
… neighborhood of superstores located in existing commercial centers. Disamenities dominate nearer to the store reflecting the influence of negative externalities like increased traffic and noise. Amenity effects dominate further away from the store as residents benefit from the convenience of …
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A study of the effects of business activity diversity on economic growth in small towns, as a consideration to landscape architectural site programming
… for economic revitalization of deteriorating commercial centers. Examples of projects designed to revive sluggish downtown economies have shown varied, and often uninspiring, results in stimulating downtown economies. This problem is most pronounced in rural communities. The ineffectiveness of …
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New towns from gowns : urban form and placemaking at college campuses
… business-planning new neighborhoods, new commercial centers, or even whole new towns adjacent to their campuses. They are quite literally engaged in "placemaking" and they are developing these new neighborhoods and communities in the shadow of fundamentally place-based institutions. …
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The antecedent factors and entry mode choice of multinational lodging firms: the case of growth strategies into new international markets
… international and local customers, gateway and commercial centers of property locations, the strengths and weaknesses in tangible and intangible assets and partner selection criteria. These factors were found to have an important influence on the entry mode choices of the five participating …
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Does mix matter? : comparing the performance of mixed-use and single-use retail clusters during an economic downturn
… since the late 20' century, and many feature commercial centers that follow a different model. Drawing from "traditional" town centers, a key principle of sprawl alternatives such as smart growth and New Urbanism is to mix land uses, and retail often occurs within a vertical mixed-use form. …
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Sustentación de caso: propuesta de un plan estratégico del ingreso al mercado peruano de una empresa del sector fast fashion
… year after year with the arrival of new commercial centers; being an opportunity for the Fast Fashion sector, as for the technological factor the social networks, are a great alternative for the promotion of products due to the reach and engagement that they have in the Peruvians. The …
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Shadow suburbanism : Mexican everyday life, fear, and space in Greater Atlanta
… immigrants and Mexican- Americans in dense urban centers, but recent, rapid demographic shifts reveal suburbs and exurbs - specifically in the South - as the new host destinations for Mexican settlement. This critical "Latinization" phenomenon is evident by highly visible changes to the built …
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Centers all the way down: a study of centrality in the modern city
… will empirically examine the distribution of centers of commercial activity in the modern city. Using measures of built space for different types of activity in Atlanta, we will map the distribution of activity in the city; then we will derive the system of centers distributed throughout the …