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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Spatial Inequality"”.
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Empirical Essays on Spatial Inequality
Spatial inequality is increasingly rising across countries within both the Global North and South. There has been a long-standing debate in the academic community regarding the relevance and significance of spatial inequality. Early perspectives maintained that spatial inequality is a price to pay …
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Can housing policy address spatial inequality? : innovations in policy and politics to expand access to opportunity neighborhoods
While research has demonstrated that low-poverty neighborhoods can improve economic outcomes for low-income children, policymakers have few scalable solutions to help families access those areas. In this dissertation, I present three innovations in policy and politics aimed at improving access to …
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Street tactics
Spatial inequality is the development of public space that selects and benefits certain constituencies over others, with direct effects on how space is used, and by whom. Over time it can contribute to social and political conflict and unrest. In Cape Town, spatial inequality originated largely …
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Regional income disparities in Indonesia: measurements, convergence process, and decentralization
The unifying theme of this dissertation is spatial inequality, or regional disparities, driven by two primary motivations. First, spatial inequality can contribute to the overall inequality across households or individuals. Second, spatial inequality can jeopardize the fabric of society, upsetting …
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Centering the periphery: Re-framing East London central business district towards social & spatial equality
This research addresses the social and spatial inequality in East London Central Business District (CBD), a challenge mirrored across South Africa. Focusing on redefining and re-framing 'Bufferzones', the study aims to integrate peripheral communities and vulnerable groups into the city center, …
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The Production of Uneven Geographies: Environmental Hazard Exposure and Socioeconomic Inequality
… digital change are reshaping the geographies of inequality. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates economic geography, environmental economics and critical urban studies, it argues how space is an active dimension that structures the allocation of resources and the distribution of …
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Decoding urban inequality : the applications of machine learning for mapping inequality in cities of the Global South
… large slum settlements and a high degree of spatial inequality. While slums are expanding at a rapid rate, cities in the Global South lack the crucial data to monitor deepening spatial inequalities. Current urban poverty assessments rely on census data, poverty maps or slum demarcation maps, …
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Examining the Relationships Between Urban Heat Island Effect and the Spatial and Racial Dimensions of Inequality
… research addresses the relationship between the spatial and racial dimensions of housing inequality in New York City and Washington, D.C. This research aims to demonstrate the influence of historical policies on present day public housing and the impacts of continuously rising temperatures …
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
… reinforce under-maintenance and perpetuate spatial inequality. Chapter 2 analyzes the social cost of behavioral adaptation. Leveraging 27 million fitness app exercise records and quasi-experimental designs, I find that heavy air pollution reduces outdoor exercise likelihood by 28%, with …
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Potential architecture
… in the world. In an era of widening social and spatial inequality, what roles - If any - are available for an architect to play in addressing the difficulties of real estate as authored predominantly by architects? Rather than impotently brooding, this project treads stubbornly towards a hopeful …
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Ageing in urban spaces : developing inclusive urban environments for older people in Global South cities
… of older people living in spaces of socio-spatial inequality. Despite the growing stream of literature in the development of inclusive and resilient urban areas in the Global South, there has been relatively little discussion of urban development in an ageing context. This research seeks to …
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Essays on economic geography and networks
… agglomeration mechanism drives a large part of spatial inequality of firm density and real wages in Japan. The second chapter (co-authored with Gabriel Kreindler) investigates how people's mobility patterns are associated with urban spatial economic activities. We use cell phone transaction data …
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The Economics of Violence and Development in Post-Conflict Societies
… factors such as underdevelopment or inequality influence armed conflict, existing research has paid little attention to how micro-dynamics relating to armed violence and socio-economic factors affect post-conflict societies. This thesis builds on the observation that both …
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The role of agglomeration and dispersion forces on the spatial distribution of economic activity in Chile: an empirical analysis of spatial wage distribution and regional housing prices
… First, Chile presents an excessive level of spatial concentration around the Metropolitan Region of Santiago (MR). Second, this spatial concentration is critical for the case of wages. In spite of the relevance, the Introduction shows the lack of discussion to understand the forces affecting …
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Participatory Planning and the Global South: A Case Study of Local Planning and Development in Vrygrond
… by increasing levels of poverty, socio-spatial inequality, and informality. Mainstream planning theories have tended to originate from the North, responding to a context that differs greatly from that of cities of the South where theories have been uncritically adopted and imposed. State …
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Small town rural revitalization through smart energy systems: case study of Elim, Limpopo Province
… of a persistent energy crisis and deep socio-spatial inequality in Elim Town, Limpopo Province. The study addresses the central problem of Residential Energy Inequity, which is driven by the systemic failure of centralized power supply (Universal Dissatisfaction Mean = 1.73) and a historical …
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Barriers to the development of affordable housing on well-located land: A qualitative study of planning regulations and by-laws in Cape Town
… and affordable housing shortage and perpetuating spatial inequality in the city. Planning system plays a dynamic role in enabling adequate housing. It is important to distinguish between planning systems that ‘control' and ones that are ‘flexible'. This study critically explores the role of …
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Gender inequality and food security in a changing climate: a spatial analysis using Nigerian general household survey
This study investigates the spatial and gender dynamics of food insecurity in Nigeria, a country besieged by rising inequality and climatic vulnerabilities. The thesis estimates and analyses how climate-related risk differentials influences both genders, especially women with particular interest on …
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Spatial segregation in medium cities during the 1990s: the case of Ribeirão Preto, SP – Brazil
… of those processes in the intra–urban spatial pattern of cities are the topic of many studies in Brazil and worldwide. Specifically, these studies seek to identify the influence of globalization in the intra–urban morphology of cities attempting to understand whether the 20th Century …
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Essays on Education Markets
… Victor Delgado and Rui Zeng, studies the spatial inequality issue in high school choice within the context of the centralized system of public high school admissions in Mexico City's metropolitan area (COMIPEMS). The uneven spatial distribution of elite high schools, combined with …
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