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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Spatial inequalities"”.
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Essays on Spatial Inequalities in Income and Education: Econometric Evidence from Pakistan
… socio-economic phenomena through the lens of spatial concepts such as density, distance, neighbourhood, and agglomeration. This dissertation emphasizes this fact in three interrelated studies that have analyzed the spatial aspects of income and human capital inequalities in Pakistan. The first …
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The social determinants of health: an empirical analysis of ethnic and spatial inequalities in health.
… articles that empirically examine the ethnic and spatial patterning of health outcomes in England today. Health is defined here as a multidimensional concept encompassing physical and mental health and wellbeing, in line with the Public Health White Paper ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People’ (HM …
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Socio-spatial inequalities in late-stage cancer diagnosis in Illinois: spatiotemporal trends and methodological challenges
… dissertation examines the effects of social and spatial inequalities on late-stage diagnosis of colorectal and breast cancer, and it addresses several methodological challenges surrounding the use of ZIP codes as a study unit in analyzing late-stage cancer at diagnosis. Given that my dissertation …
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The Role of Higher Education in Economic Inequalities and Intergenerational Social Mobility: Empirical Evidence from South Korea and Lessons from the UK
… role of higher education in reducing economic inequalities and promoting intergenerational social mobility. This is particularly relevant in the case of South Korea, a context that has seen a dramatic increase in access to higher education and higher earnings of the population with a higher …
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Righting The Wrongs Of The Past: Corridors Of Freedom As A Pathway To Inclusive Development
… housing segregation, Johannesburg remains spatially fragmented with the urban poor remaining isolated in the periphery of the city far from places of employment and opportunity. With the decentralization and deindustrialization of employment, commuting for the urban poor has become more …
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Seeing the city for the trees : public space, climate adaptation, and environmental justice in LA and New York's "Million Trees" campaigns
… each city and among socioeconomic groups. These spatial inequalities directed the flow of trees differently in New York versus Los Angeles, with the result that the latter was better able to target low-income minority neighborhoods with low tree canopy. Remediating these socio-spatial …
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(Re)configuring socially just pedagogies with posthumanism and decoloniality: Experimenting with processual learning in the Architectural Technology extended curriculum programme in the Western Cape, South Africa
… in architectural studies. By exploring the spatial planning of Cape Town with its inherent power relations in South African society, the research seeks to alert students to social and spatial inequalities and encourage students to consider ways of envisaging a built environment that is more …
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Power in Transition: The Spatial Variation of Territorial Cohesion in Kazakhstan
… aspects of effective national territory and spatial inequalities, focusing on better integration of regions through balanced economic growth, reducing regional disparities, and inclusive policies toward all citizens. Lack of cohesion and instability result from poorly managed government …
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Urban resilience through diversity
… of knowledge that seeks to address urban sprawl, spatial inequalities, and spatial fragmentation left by the legacy of apartheid planning. I begin my research with the investigation of existing levels of Diversity, and I employ mapping to see the area which reflects more di¬verse characteristics. …
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Reconfiguring racial regimes of ownership: vacancy and the labor of revitalization on Chicago's South Side
… informing urban scholars’ analysis of socio-spatial inequalities. I advocate analytical engagements with urban decline not simply as a function of the presence or absence of capital, as suggested by the political economy framework of “uneven development,” but as an outcome of the specific …
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Devolution and Space in England: Empirical Essays on Economic Growth, Democratic Engagement, and Health
… of devolution in influencing longstanding spatial realities such as economic ag- glomerations and spatially concentrated democratic disengagement, the sacrifice of national synergies in policy delivery, and that in practice place-based policies do not give enough attention to ‘space’ within …
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Spatial design for the Lansdowne Road Corridor
… the city of Cape Town reflect large social inequalities, which is compounded by rapid population growth and urbanisation experienced in the city. The intention of this dissertation is address current socio-spatial inequalities through the management of urban growth, specifically targeted at …
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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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Modelling health care utilization: an applied Geographical Information Systems approach
… debate relating to health and health care inequalities. This thesis develops a flexible, portable and predictive model of health care utilization capable of assisting improved health care planning and analysis. In so doing it contributes to the current resurgence in medical geography. An …
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Scalar Politics: Sustainability planning under Localism and the delivery of London's Olympic legacy
… capacities, widening already-existing socio-spatial inequalities. The thesis concludes by destabilising the widely used idea of sustainable development as a ‘balance’ between social, economic and environmental needs. Viewing sustainability through a scalar lens, in our case using a physical …
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Rethinking the Cape Town Property Developer: Understanding the local developer's perspective of the City of Cape Town Municipality and comparing this perspective to local Transit-Orientated Development policy constructs of the developer
… resulting in policy perpetuating the very spatial inequalities and status quo the City of Cape Town aims to redress.
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A Social Logic of Energy: A data science approach to understanding and modelling energy transitions of India’s urban poor
… heterogeneity across households and the inherent spatial inequalities in urban India. This thesis explores the influence of local socio-economic and cultural factors, and household practices and habits, on clean cooking transition with a view to understanding how the associated heterogeneity can …
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The Spatial Distribution of Welfare in Ireland
In this thesis welfare is examined in a spatial context. A broader definition of welfare is taken so that it includes more than just income. In-kind benefits, indirect costs, life-satisfaction, locational effects are all examined in a spatial context. The impact of these welfare drivers on the …
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Cycle route network development and evaluation using spatial multi-criteria analysis and shortest path analysis
… Africa is dealing with both urbanisation and spatial inequalities as a result of the apartheid era, with the poor very often located on the outskirts of urban areas, and therefore far from centres of employment and other amenities. Active mobility in the form of walking and cycling have been …
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THREE ESSAYS ON FIRST NATIONS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
… and types of foods purchased. I also explore spatial inequalities and issues related to the accessibility of food. Results indicate that while income, size, and age of the household head are significant determinants of total food expenditures, their impact changes with the type of food …
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