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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Spatial Implications"”.
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The realization of the Autostrada A1 in Poland: A discussion of spatial implications
… has had or will have on its environment carries spatial implications. Economic and demographic patterns will likely be significantly affected by the presence of a new north-south highway in Poland. The Autostrada A1 itself, the process to build it, and the transformed government and legal regimes …
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Spatial Implications of Flood Exposure and Relocation Attitudes among Older Populations in Hampton Roads, VA
… older adults living in this area. First, a geospatial analysis was conducted to assess the change in flood risk in Hampton Roads over a period of 60 years and exposure to older populations, aged 60 and over. Then the survey data were used to conduct a correlation analysis to examine the …
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Building inclusive neighborhoods: assessing the socio-spatial implications of transit-oriented development in St. Louis, Missouri
… and qualitative analyses. First, I use spatial regression analyses to explore the relationship between gentrification-related residential change and LRT stations. The results from the analyses point toward St. Louis, Missouri and the Delmar Loop TOD site specifically as a place to …
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Exploring the spatial implications of capacity constraints in public transportation systems : a scenario-based analysis of London
… from further crowding. However, analyzing the spatial relationship between available capacity and economic impacts may not be straightforward, and common modeling practice can bias results. Improved modeling practice that more realistically includes capacity and crowding effects has the …
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Spatial implications of foreign direct investment (FDI) on infrastructure delivery: A case of the City of Lusaka, Zambia
… nature of infrastructure and its overall spatial manifestation as a function of urban form and structure. It is the spatial character underlying urban production systems, which development strategies such as FDI need to appropriately understand because it is at that interface were …
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Compaction, scale and proximity: an investigation into the spatial implications of density for the design of new urban housing
This thesis investigates the implications of density for the design of new urban housing. An historical study of the notion of density in architectural and planning practice indicates that density ratios as a design mechanism were born out of a desire to control the physical conglomeration of the …
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Connecting for survival: Understanding the spatial implications of migrant women's food insecurity coping strategies in Medellin, Colombia, and Washington, DC
… provides a nuanced understanding of the spatial implications of this connectivity as made visible through mobility and social networks in two cities. Everyday experiences of food security can be bolstered by access to greater mobility (e.g., access to a taxi/bus to go to the central …
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Waste matters in planning - an analysis of the spatial implications of solid waste management in the city of Cape Town
… been sufficiently appreciated in terms of its spatial implications. Planning literature does not engage substantially with issues around solid waste management. However, through the many allusions to waste and by investigating solid waste literature spatial issues emerged. Indeed, the …
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Disaster Diplomacy: The spatial impact of international reconstruction aid in the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal
This thesis aims to investigate the spatial implications of international reconstruction aid in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake of Nepal, particularly in the urban municipality of Lalitpur. I explore how emergency reconstruction aid, operationalized as support from international NGOs, …
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MOVING BODIES, FEELING HEALTH: EXAMINING THE EMBODIED POLITICS OF HEALTH-PROMOTING INFRASTRUCTURE IN SINGAPORE
… 22 participants, this thesis examines the socio-spatial implications arising from the growing role of infrastructural configurations in Singapore’s health intervention efforts and suggests ways forward for future efforts to connect with social equity concerns centred on politics of difference. …
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How Old Is Now?
… of architecture, producing both aesthetic and spatial implications. In this city, to maintain is to remake, to build is to preserve, to care is to create. When life and life-expectancy of structures is literally infinite, there can be no differentiation between repair and construction. This …
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Queering community : collective housing in Los Angeles
What is queer architecture? What are the spatial implications of this identity, community, and history? And how can queerness in architecture generate new modes of living? Queer spaces are often marginal spaces: overlooked, under lit, and co-opted spaces. However, they were also the political, …
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The Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus): Spatial, Ecological, and Human Implications in Southeast Virginia
The overall theme that drove my research was the concern for public health and its possible compromise due to the colonization of large areas of the United States by the disease-vectoring Aedes albopictus. The main objective is to determine the elements that make an environment conducive to Aedes …
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Displaced to a place : interventions for refugee integration in cities
… integration and examines how they play out spatially on a local scale through a case study of the Roxbury neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. The research analysis and case study affirm the influence of place in the refugee experience of community and belonging. Just as displacement is a …
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Re-envisioning the Indian city : informality and temporality Sabrina Kleinenhammans.
… there has been very little research exploring spatial conditions that may engender an inclusive city. In three sections, this thesis focuses on the spatial implications of one sector of the informal economy: street vending. The first section introduces the Indian urban realm through a …
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Living side-by-side? An analysis of the changing relationship between race, space and class in Cape Town, 1980-2011
… working age population at each data point. The spatial or geographical analyses uses both a GIS platform to map the changing distribution of the races, occupational classes and the unemployed, as well as two segregation indices aimed at better understanding the city-wide impacts of those …
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Made in China : the rise of the Chinese domestic firms in the information industry
… the findings from the cases, and the policy implications. This study contributes to the late-industrialization literature by filling its theoretical gap--how domestic firms can catch up when there is strong MNC presence and what is the role of innovation capability. I develop a staged …
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Design and analysis of genetic algorithms for two classes of spatial optimization
… in civil and environmental engineering have spatial implications. Whether deciding on water management strategies or protecting critical infrastructure, our designs cannot be separated from the world in which they will be built and operated. Common optimization techniques, however, struggle …
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Spatial Thinking as an Analytical Lens for Bilateral International Development: Lessons from the Harbor Reconstruction Project in Jamestown, Accra
… of Ghana in a widely attended ceremony. The spatial implications of this physical urban infrastructure project across international, national, municipal, and local levels are complex and interrelated. Therefore, this case study is especially relevant at a historical moment when the nature of …
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A city of placelessness : digital nomads and Tallinn's urban future
… a digital nomad hub. On the other hand, their spatial implications and social segregations from local people have drawn little attention in Tallinn's urban developments. To envision Tallinn's urban future under placelessness, the thesis takes digital nomads as a stimulus to architecture and …
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