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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Greater London"”.
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Voluntary Organisations and the 1981–6 Greater London Council
… dissertation answers the question of how 1981–6 Greater London Council (GLC) used grants to voluntary groups. In doing so, it makes visible part of an unnoticed history of how London was remade in the 1980s and creates an introduction for future studies of both the GLC and the organisations it …
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Gentrification and displacement in Greater London: an empirical and theoretical analysis
… and displacement in the context of the Greater London area. Scant work has been previously undertaken in this country on these processes compared to be the wealth of work conducted already on gentrification. Displacement has barely been acknowledged as a component of the British …
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Technological innovation and local authorities: a case-study of the Greater London Council (GLC)
… policy, formulated and implemented by the Greater London Council (GLC) whilst in office, between 1981 and 1986. The GLC attempted to make a direct link between technological innovation and social needs by creating the facilities, in the form of five 'Technology Networks'. for user …
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Modelling the impact of urbanisation on the regional climate of the Greater London area
… the urban surface on the major agglomeration of London on local and regional climate by means of the numerical mesoscale model METRAS (Schlünzen 1988) coupled for the first time with the sophisticated urban canopy scheme BEP, developed by Martilli et al. (2002). The robustness of the new model is …
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Systems of Power, Systems of Space: Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Smith, and John Keats in Romantic Greater London
This study considers the suburban spatial environment in the works of three Romantic-eraauthors. I argue that these authors use the suburbs as outlets to express the economic and cultural systems of power as capitalism defines the spaces where nineteenth century texts are set and also the …
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Evaluation of open space policies for outdoor recreation, with reference to South East London
… recreation and sport have been developed by the Greater London Council, and other agencies including the Regional Council for Sport and Recreation and the Docklands Development Organisation. The study evaluates the extent to which these policies have been correctly formulated and are realistic, …
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Estimating exposure to traffic-related pollution within a GIS environment
… were used in two contrasting case studies; Greater London and Sheffield, where they were selected on basis of data availability and resolution. The methods used in this research were CALINE3, DMRB, ADMS-Urban and ISC3 (air pollution dispersion models), kriging and co-kriging (spatial …
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Growth and challenges of the Islamic banking system: A perspective of the British Bangladeshi Muslim Community in London, United Kingdom
… British Bangladeshi Muslim Community (BBMC) in Greater London regarding adopting the Islamic banking system? ii) Do the Muslim scholar's inconsistent views create any confusion about or obstacles to the growth and development of the Islamic banking system? In this study, the researcher used a …
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Essays on Urban Economics
… paper estimates the heterogeneous effect of the London congestion charging scheme (CCZ) on the traffic by vehicles with different pollution intensities and ambient air quality within the Greater London Area. The implementation of such a policy effectively reduces the traffic flows from …
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Sustainable Urbanism, Rising Sea Level, and Green Infrastructure: New Strategies for Central London
… This research studies flooding potentials in the greater London area, the hydrological situation of the Thames River Basin, and hybrid approaches to confronting those risks. It then explores the potentials of green infrastructure to supplement current civil engineering solutions and applies …
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Building adaptive smart transport governance using citizen-centric data
… framework. Within English metropolitan areas, Greater London ranks first in smart transport development. Chapter 4 zooms into Greater London and applies novel methods to understand citizens’ activity-travel patterns with uncertainties. Typical activity-travel patterns before COVID-19 and the …
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Pedagogies and Practice: How Religious Diversification Impacts Seminaries and Clergy
… of Judaism and Protestant Christianity in greater London and New York City. Religiously diversifying societies in the US and England have brought forth new challenges for clergy and seminaries, prompting new questions about how or why a faith community should or should not engage with …
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The psychological dimension of living with fear of terrorism: Social identity, existential anxiety, and media influence
… who are therapy patients and reside in Greater London and employed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as the analytical method. The study revealed that fear of terrorism encompasses multiple dimensions, influencing individual experiences, media portrayals, and societal …
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Impacts of airports on the quality of life of surrounding communities
London Heathrow Airport has both beneficial and detrimental impacts on surrounding communities such as, for example, job creation and noise. The population living in the airport's proximity notices, cares about, and perceives its impacts which have often been studied only partially in literature. …
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Architecture beyond the frame filmmaking and the adjacent space
… frame the urban context with cinematic motion? Greater London has its own film history, playing home numerous period, fantasy, drama and action set pieces. Its privatized industry hosts six major film studios as well as a multitude of smaller studios. More importantly, the city has a large …
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Optimal structures and collective dynamics of human flows in transportation networks.
… constraints. We focus on a case study on the Greater London Area highlighting the integration of spatial attractiveness and traffic congestion in simulating human mobility patterns. The thesis finally explores the dynamics of out-of-routine mobility by integrating individual and collective …
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The analysis of internal migration in the United Kingdom using census and National Health Service Central Register data.
… attractiveness of the South East, particularly Greater London, to young, mobile adults and a net loss of migrants from North to South. The illustration of contemporary trends in migration using time-series data highlights the potential shortcomings of a sub-national population projection model …
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Is access to and use of Exercise Referral Schemes equitable?
… a scoping review undertaken across all ERSs in Greater London to identify schemes with suitable routine data collection to participate in the equity analysis. Thirdly, the thesis presents a cross-sectional analysis of 7985 patients referred by general practices to ERSs operating in six PCTs …
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Developing methods for understanding the nature of voting patterns and party competition in Britain
… aggregate data gathered for the elections to the Greater London Authority in order to understand the patterns of electoral support across the capital, particularly support for minor parties. A considerable amount of research effort has been expended upon providing reliable models for electoral …
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