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Showing 1 to 20 of 207 for “"Suburb"”.
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Randolph : Boston's gateway suburb
In the last two decades, certain American suburbs have begun to struggle with issues traditionally thought of as urban problems and dealt with in city settings, such as failing schools, fragmented community, affordable housing, immigrant incorporation, poverty, crime, and others. These places have …
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Suburb-to-suburb commuting and transit planning : a case study of Surrey, B.C.
Rapid growth in suburb-to-suburb commuting has created a problem for transit providers: the dispersed commuting patterns are very difficult to serve with transit, and are characterized by low transit use. This thesis aims to determine which markets have the best potential for transit, and what …
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Life choices : university-educated mothers in a Japanese suburb
… how Japanese university-educated mothers in a suburban context make the most of their lives. The chief focus is a group of women who have chosen not to pursue a career outside the home. The expansion of numbers of university-educated women in post-war Japan has not made a great impact on the …
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Suburban metabolism a project for a suburb of the future
One of my initial research questions was to answer how informal settlements can pioneer the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in Cape Town. The objectives included understanding energy usage in informal settlements, invetigating current energy technologies and innovating an architectural …
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A morphology of consolidation : spatial form and physical change in an American suburb
… structure of physical change within an American suburb. Typified as middle class, residential, and single family, one finds in such settings detached one or two story houses on 1/8 to 1/4 acre lots. One central argument is that physical change, or change of spatial form and structure, is a …
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Displacement, politics and governance : access to low-income housing in a Beirut suburb
… during the civil war, and from Beirut to the suburbs after postwar reconstruction started in 1992. This research is a case study of Sahra Choueifat, one of Beirut's southern suburbs. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the factors that have affected the displacement and relocation …
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Notes from the Suburb: the Image of Helsinki in the works by Kjell Westö
My doctoral thesis aims at analysing the suburbs of Helsinki as the urban space where the social, economic, cultural and linguistic transformations of the Finnish post-war society took place. Starting with the neo-marxist discourse elaborated by Marshall Berman in his essay "All that is solid melts …
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The Skyscraper And The Suburb: Architecture, Capitalism, And The American Metropolitan Landscape, 1929–1940
… the early twentieth century, American cities and suburbs underwent significant change. This dissertation examines two architectural projects, Rockefeller Center and Broadacre City, that respectively sought to interpret and intensify competing trends of density and dispersion during the 1930s. …
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Islam, resistance and community development : the case of the southern suburb of Beirut City
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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Into a suburban landscape: a proposal of housing for the future of the American suburb
… possibility of repairing isolated and disjointed suburban development in and around American cities. We will explore how the continuous refinement of existing development might occur in just one example of a socially and functionally fragmented area of a city. A prototypical suburban housing block …
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Aspirational Homeownership in a Time of Crisis: An ethnography of new homeowners in an Ottawa suburb
… research with new homeowners in a small suburban community in Ottawa called Findlay Creek and a Peircian semiotic approach, this thesis looks to translate the deeper meaning of homeownership and the experience of the perceived housing crisis. It argues that the phrase ‘the housing crisis’ …
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Assessment of potentially harmful arsenic, cadmium, cobalt and lead in soils and plants in Nomtsoub suburb, Tsumeb town
… Cd2+, Co2+, and Pb2+ in soil in the Nomtsoub suburb of the Tsumeb Town as well as determining the uptake of the potentially harmful heavy metals from soil to vegetation. The research project involved sampling of soils and vegetation in residential complexes and school grounds in the Nomtsoub …
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Acknowledged and Perceived Reasons for Non-Attendance at Christian Churches in the Pacifica Community, a Suburb of San Francisco, California
… apply to the Pacifica community of California, a suburb of San Francisco. Furthermore, little, if any, research has been conducted to compare the reasons for non-attendance as acknowledged by non-attenders with the reasons as perceived by attenders. The purpose of this study was to examine and …
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A study of the relationship between market price of property and residential environment in the suburb of Wynberg, Cape Province
… the residential structure of Wynberg, a suburb of Cape Town, and it has both a short and long term purpose. The main intent of the Thesis is contained in its short term purpose, that is it attempts to find patterns of selective differentiation in residential location for various groups in …
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Educators' access, training and use of computer-based technology at selected primary schools in the Cape Town suburb of Athlone, Western Cape
This research study determines designated primary school educator's use of computer technology for accomplishing teaching related tasks such as using the computer to create instructional material; administrative record keeping; to access information via CD-ROM and the Internet for best practice …
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Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan
… the World Wars, a period characterized by rapid suburban growth. It reveals how Virginia Woolf, in Mrs. Dalloway and Between the Acts, reconsiders which narrative choices might be appropriate for mobilizing and critiquing arguments about the relationship between city, country, and suburb. The …
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An exploratory study of the psycho-social factors contributing to resilience amongst coloured adolescent females in the Mitchell’s Plain suburb of Cape Town.
Young coloured women, particularly within the South African post-Apartheid generation, face a number of psycho-social and economic events and circumstances which are unfavourable, more commonly known as risk factors. These factors include risk of physical harm, the phenomenon of teenage pregnancy, …
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Living with water: An Ethnographic Study Relating to Water and Infrastructure Entanglements, in the Hout Bay Suburb of Cape Town, for a Water Sensitive Designed "Liveable" Neighbourhood
Inclusive water management implies considering the diverse relationships different people have with water, other values that people assign to water, and the ecological impacts of employed strategies. Faced with increasing water scarcity and environmental degradation, it has become critical that we …
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A regional assessment of transit-oriented office development opportunities in Boston's suburbs
… traffic congestion and long commute times. The suburbs account for a significant share of Eastern Massachusetts office employment. Yet, the MBTA Commuter Rail primarily serves a single purpose, transporting suburban residents to and from their workplaces in Boston. Only a small share of morning …
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