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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Land Use Policy"”.
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Contemporary land use policy in Quito : towards a more equitable approach
… changes, this included direct implications for land rights and land use considerations. This was, and continues to be, highly important as land rights questions have long been a central component in the platforms of historically marginalized groups- Indigenous communities, Afro-Ecuadorians and …
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Land Use Policy in Local Historic Districts and Incentives for Compliance in the Vieux Carré
… rate. This thesis examines the effects of land use policy, including the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance and the design review process in the Vieux Carré, on attempts to return vacant buildings to commerce. The author examines three cases of redevelopment attempts of vacant properties in the …
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Measuring physical density : implications on the use of different measures on land use policy in Singapore
Land use planning policies in Singapore have been driven by the goal to optimize the use of the scarce land resource. Density measures how intensively land has been put to use and is thus a good indicator of how planning policies are performing in relation to this goal of land use optimization. …
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Alternative methodological approaches to natural resource policy analysis: an illustration of an institutional approach to land use policy analysis
Policy economists are increasingly called upon to participate in the institutional design of natural resource policies, predict interpret impacts of alternative the direction of future policy policies, and formulations. However, many of the forces influential in the current reformulation of these …
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Whither 215? limitations on the use of discretionary funding incentives as a means of inducing local land use policy reform
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
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Supply response and the land conversion process in the rural-urban fringe
… this research was to investigate the nature of landowner supply-response behavior as it related to the land conversion process in the rural-urban fringe. Emphasis was placed on the derivation of the farmer's dynamic supply-response curve of agricultural land for urban uses since the nature of …
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Optimal building heights around Bogotá's first subway line
… has not been taken into account when defining land use regulations, that is why incorporating market factors would definitely contribute to a more appropriate land use policy. The purpose of the present research is to develop a model to estimate optimal building heights that can help in …
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Incremental housing at the receding suburban fringe
… focus the folly of decades of short-sighted land use policy and housing development that largely ignored environmental vulnerabilities. Second, a massive foreclosure crisis exposed the economic flaws of a housing delivery system that relies on reckless and unsustainable mortgage lending and …
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Mitigating transit noise through urban planning and design
… examines how urban design techniques can be used for path mitigation of transit noise. Noise problems from rail transit systems persist despite the existence of at-source noise reduction techniques for rail transit systems and substantial research on architectural acoustic solutions. …
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Ecosystem Management and its Application at the Local Level: APNEP, CAMA and Local Land Use Planning in North Carolina
… state-mandated growth management has been to infuse regional environmental concerns into local land use planning. Similarly, collaborative ecosystem planning efforts have attempted to encourage local communities to participate in regional planning efforts, and to adopt regional environmental …
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Land use and climate change in Miami-Dade County
… to adopt a climate change plan in 1993. Land use features prominently in this plan as a means to reduce greenhouse gases through development patterns that allow people to lower their Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). Travel data show that average per capita VMT for the Miami area increased …
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The Emergence of the Wyoming Core Area Strategy: "The Sage Grouse Rebellion"
… Strategy (WCAS), a state-based Greater Sage Grouse conservation plan. It presents a theoretical framework that is based on and adds nuance to the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). The hypothesis this study explored was: if a subsystem's jurisdiction is threatened by a hierarchically superior …
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Quantifying the Potential for Non-Point Source Pollution in Model Urban Landscapes
… loading of watersheds, little is known about how land covers of different vegetation representative of urban areas (e.g., bare soil versus turfgrass lawns versus urban forest) influence the potential for non-point source pollution. Ambient rainfall volumes were manipulated to provide 50%, 100%, …
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Agenda-Building in Local Land-Use Issues: Blacksburg Versus the Big Box
… Blacksburg, Virginia, has struggled with land-use policy, planning, and growth issues. This struggle intensified when town residents discovered a Walmart store might be included in a new retail development project. Local interest groups quickly formed, establishing different perspectives …
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Selling the Fringe: Financializing Strategies and the Collapse of Local Horticulture at the edge of Auckland, New Zealand
… in Kumeu-Huapai, at the northwest of Auckland’s rapidly expanding urban periphery as well as existing research on urbanization in California, USA, and Victoria, Australia to examine how the profit-making strategies of property developers and landowners drastically reshapes work and life at …
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Achieving sustainable development on the Croatian waterfront ... : challenges and opportunities
… to its Adriatic coastline and over 1000 islands, reaching its prewar tourism numbers when it led the market as the top destination for European vacationers. Investors, speculators and developers have all followed suit, attempting to take advantage of the beautiful coastline and growing …
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U.S. National Liquefaction Hazard Maps and their Implications for Engineering Practice and Policy
… cloud computing. The resulting NLHMs provide useful insights for land-use policy, preliminary site assessment, simulating earthquakes and planning response across regional scales, prioritizing retrofits within portfolios of distributed infrastructure, and creating screening tools for …
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An econometric analysis of the Seoul Office Market dynamics
… is accounted for with the effect of governmental land use policy. On the other hand, the estimated construction equation suggests that new office supply can be well explained by rent and office employment growth, both lagging long six years. The long lag implies that investors have expected …
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The relationship between rail transit ridership and built environment and transportation system
… with transit systems in order to promote transit use. Traditionally it is thought that people's travel behavior is shaped by travel time or monetary costs only, but the emergence of many recent studies suggests that the built environment also plays a role in people's travel decisions. This …
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Parking policy as a mechanism to reduce car ownership and use
… car is sitting in a parking spot, waiting to be used whenever and however the owner wishes. Parking enables this value. In the next set of results, I find that parking-related variables, like the built environment and employer-provided parking benefits, also impact car use. Though these findings …
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