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Showing 1 to 20 of 303 for “"Neighbourhoods"”.
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URBAN CHOREOGRAPHIES BANGKOK'S CATALYSTS TRANSFORM NEIGHBOURHOODS
… economic transitions, some inner-city neighbourhoods have maintained their spatial richness through more gradual densification. To analyse these neighbourhoods’ changes, urban qualities, key actors and transformation strategies, this research combines quantitative and qualitative …
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Doing desistance in divided neighbourhoods : the role of conflict-affected neighbourhoods in the desistance process during reintegration
… Yet, little is known about the role that neighbourhoods and a legacy of conflict may play in the desistance process at this time and the degree to which current theory and practice can comprehensively address broader neighbourhood factors that may significantly shape this process. In order …
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Polynomially searchable exponential neighbourhoods for sequencing problems in combinatorial optimisation
In this thesis, we study neighbourhoods of exponential size that can be searched in polynomial time. Such neighbourhoods are used in local search algorithms for classes of combinatorial optimisation problems. We introduce a method, called dynasearch, of constructing new neighbourhoods, and of …
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Individuals, Families and Neighbourhoods: Predictors of Domestic Abuse in Essex
The human and economic cost of domestic abuse is enormous. In the UK two women a week are dying as a result of their abuse and the cost to society and the economy is estimated to be in the region of £66 billion pounds a year. Having the ability to predict those most at risk is essential in …
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Sustainable urban planning development indicators model for neighbourhoods in Tripoli, Libya
… in Libya have been carried out for improving the neighbourhoods sustainability, whilst decreasing their effect on the resources and the natural environment. Hence, a proper understanding of the elements, which contribute to the sustainable urban planning development indicators of neighbourhoods is …
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Southern Ontario Principals' Perspectives on Recess in Low-Income Neighbourhoods
… principals’ experiences of recess in low-income neighbourhoods. Participants included 12 principals from an elementary school board in Southern Ontario. Opened-ended questions regarding principals’ general recess experiences and their recess definitions were asked, along with self-report measures …
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Why public policy ideas catch on: empty signifiers and flourishing neighbourhoods
… of the empty signifier of ‘flourishing neighbourhoods’. The thesis traces the credibility and emergence of flourishing neighbourhoods and contributes to a research agenda around hegemonic policy analysis.
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To reimagine the integration of public transport with high-density neighbourhoods
… to transform these undesirable places into neighbourhoods of intensified mixed-use development, offering convenience, access and amenities to people who use the transport interchange or live nearby. The project involves the analysis of the transportation network in Delft, a rapidly …
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Detroit in Decline: An investigation into the dynamics of two urban neighbourhoods
… through a close reading of two residential neighbourhoods, this dissertation investigates the complexities of decline. It examines the development of decline over time, as well as how it has differentially affected social and spatial patterns and practices within the city. This dissertation …
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High-Performance Network- and GPU-Aware Communication for MPI Partitioned and MPI Neighbourhoods
Advances in High-Performance Computing (HPC) continue to improve the performance of applications in Molecular Dynamics, AI, Deep Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs), among others, to solve large complex problems. Over the past decade, there has been an increase in CPU core count as well as …
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What Happened to Participation? Urban Development and Authoritarian Upgrading in Cairo's Informal Neighbourhoods
Participation appeared in development discourses for the first time in the 1970s, as a generic call for the involvement of the poor in development initiatives. Over the last three decades, the initial perspectives on participation intended as a project method for poverty reduction have evolved into …
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The anatomy of access: re-imagining essential service provision in complex urban neighbourhoods
… on the edge and within lower-income accessible neighbourhoods. These shifting states of existence produce vulnerabilities that make it difficult for access by the state for effective service provision in these neighbourhoods. This project looks at this reality of access for people living in …
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The Housing Conditions of Township Neighbourhoods: Assessing Housing Performance in Langa, Cape Town
… to government created peripheral townships neighbourhoods (Dewar & Uytenbogaardt, 1977:4). This had resulted in people of colour living within neighbourhoods with poor and subpar access to resources such as education, sanitation, employment, and critical opportunities for growth such as …
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Phenomenal Landscapes: exploring children’s neighbourhood mobility and their experiences within three east London neighbourhoods
… mobility and their experiences within their neighbourhoods at different times of the year, focussing on their use of the public places and spaces within these both for travel and play. It takes a child-centred approach to the research, working with a small group of children (n=17) from three …
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Density and design: the impact of urban densification on design qualities in residential neighbourhoods
This study is focused on the concept of urban intensification, investigating the costs and benefits of higher density urban development. It attempts to define the exact physical patterns and spatial characteristic of the density of residential urban areas in order to establish the extent to which …
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The effects of subsidized housing on the property values of neighbourhoods within its vicinity
Over time neighbourhoods have shown opposition to Government subsidized housing programmes being developed within their neighbourhoods. This is due to the perceived negative impacts that these housing developments have on the neighbourhood. Opposition has grown since implementation of the Housing …
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Urban planning, neighbourhoods and social cohesiveness : a socio-cultural study of expatriate residents in Dubai
… and transitory. The concept of community neighbourhoods in urban living is gradually disappearing, which has led to more challenges for urban planners, designers and the architects. As architecture and urban planning are expressions of social and cultural milieus, this research focuses on …
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The influence of the quality of the built environment on social cohesion in English neighbourhoods
… built environment and social cohesion in English neighbourhoods. As quality seems to be a multi-faceted concept, a further aim is to identify those features of quality of the built environment most likely to support social cohesion in English neighbourhoods. The methodology adopted in this …
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