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Showing 1 to 20 of 579 for “"Neighbourhood"”.
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Neighbourhood disaster planning
… the United States began the task of setting up neighbourhood disaster response teams to teach communities self-reliance in the event of a disaster. In Canada, the first case of a neighbourhood-level plan was initiated in June 1990 in the community of Burkeville, City of Richmond, British …
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Associations between the Neighbourhood Food Environment, Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status and Diet Quality in Canadian Adults
… potential independent and joint effects of the neighbourhood food environment and neighbourhood socioeconomic status on diet quality of adults living in Calgary, Alberta. The density of all neighbourhood food destinations, but not neighbourhood socioeconomic status independently or jointly with …
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Neighbourhood profiling and classification for community safety
This thesis presents a new neighbourhood classification, the Leeds Classification for Community Safety (LCCS). This is used to demonstrate the usefulness of area classifications for providing area context information to crime analysis, and for identifying neighbourhoods with atypical crime profiles …
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Neighbourhood deprivation and adult adiposity in South Africa
… study sought to investigate association between neighbourhood deprivation and adult adiposity (a combination of body mass index and waist circumference), the association of neighbourhood deprivation and body mass index and waist circumference individually and to examine individual and household …
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Cranbrook, Kent, and its neighbourhood area, c. 1570-1670
… of demographic growth within Cranbrook's neighbourhood during local periods of epidemic disease and economic dislocation, provide a context in which to examine the extent to which the Wealden wood pasture agrarian regime could absorb and sustain demographic growth within individual local …
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Place-based ageing and social interaction in a Belfast neighbourhood
… of the relationship between perceived neighbourhood characteristics and social interaction is relatively underdeveloped. In particular, little is known about how perception of diverse neighbourhood characteristics in suburban neighbourhoods relates to diverse forms of social …
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THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IN CRITICAL URBAN THEORY: NAVIGATING PLANETARY/ASSEMBLAGE DIVIDES
… have developed. Thus, this thesis puts forth the neighbourhood as a potential nexus—a ‘trading zone’ (Barnes and Sheppard, 2010)—where the two theories can ‘meet. The central idea, is that a neighbourhood lens foregrounds constitutive aspects of the urban pertinent to both theories, enabling …
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Variable neighbourhood search based heuristic for K-harmonic means clustering
… In this thesis, I suggest a Variable Neighbourhood Search (VNS) to improve a recent clustering local search called K-Harmonic Means (KHM).Many experiments are presented to show the strength of my code compared with some algorithms from the literature. Some counter-examples are …
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Some applications of continuous variable neighbourhood search metaheuristic (mathematical modelling)
… solution. In this thesis, the variable neighbourhood search (VNS) metaheuristic (the framework for building heuristic) has been considered. Two variants of variable neighbourhood search metaheuristic have been developed, continuous variable neighbourhood search and reformulation descent …
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Neighbourhood trajectories and social exclusion: towards a citizenship of place
… categories and descriptions used in delineating neighbourhoods and shaping policy is also influential. A coherent line of research is demonstrated which has revolved around the definition, measurement and scale of deprivation and housing's role in social exclusion and competitiveness debates. …
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A reappraisal of the roles and relationships of neighbourhood watches: an investigation of selected neighbourhood watches in the Athlone and Annenberg areas in Cape Town
The Neighbourhood Watch (NW) is a pervasive phenomenon that has gained footholds in many countries around the world. South Africa is no exception and, in the case of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province, they have proven to be a popular choice among the members of civil society as a method of …
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"Race" Conditioning Social Cohesion in the Post-Apartheid Cape Town Neighbourhood
… integration in the post-apartheid Cape Town neighbourhood. The underlying questions are whether and how the racial classifications inherited from apartheid are meaningful when residents negotiate, determine and arrange their changing neighbourhood and neighbours. The object of this study is …
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Let's be Honest, Resident Participation and Inclusion in Hamilton's Neighbourhood Action
… study investigated how the initiative, known as Neighbourhood Action (NA), engages residents in identified neighbourhoods in collaboration with local service providers, city staff, and community developers. NA is an attempt to respond to levels of concentrated poverty in the identified …
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Impact of neighbourhood facilities towards locational decision and residential property value
… study, researcher examined the impact of the neighbourhood facilities towards the locational decisions of the potential buyers and residential property value in case study area. The research objectives of this study were to identify the existing pattern and layout of neighbourhood facilities …
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Community capacity building : a role for neighbourhood houses in community revitalization
… related concepts to examine how a multicultural neighbourhood in east Vancouver mobilized community action. The case study found that a community capacity building framework, when supplemented with other community development tools, is an effective model for strengthening community leadership and …
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Low birth weight and neighbourhood of residence: a multi-level analysis
… study is to understand the relationship between neighbourhood level factors and LBW in a population of children. It is well known that individual level risk factors influence low birth weight. What is less known is the extent to which a potential determinant of LBW - such as neighbourhood of …
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Neighbourhood Level Master-Planning - ‘A Strategic Value-Based Decision-Making Perspective’
The master-planning of large-scale neighbourhood development has become a central part of strategies to stimulate changes in local urban economy and property markets in Britain. However, the 2007-08 economic crisis severely disrupted urban development and created uncertainty affecting market …
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The anatomy of a working-class neighbourhood: West Sparkbrook 1871-1914
… of the years from 1871 to 1914 in the Birmingham neighbourhood of West Sparkbrook. The chronology has been set to make possible the use of census material and oral evidence, and the neighbourhood was chosen because, although it was in these years mainly an area of middle and upper working class …
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