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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Town Centres"”.
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Vitality and viability in the contemporary English High Street: Understanding the changing relationship between the commercial ‘viability’ and social ‘vitality’ of town centres in a period of economic transition
… in some places the crisis, facing the English town centre is the focus of much political and academic debate. This research analyses the changing relationship between the social vitality and commercial viability in the English town centre from 1945 to the early 2020s, and in particular, it asks …
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Methodology for the definition of a sytem of actions based on the use of discrete choice models, for the renewal of historic centres through the consideration of the needs of local communities. A case study concerning the city of Cagliari.
Nowadays, conservation of old town centres is one of the main goals of several planning processes. For this reason, planning and historic centres' preservation can be considered synergetic concept (Frank &Petersen, 2002) and activities. Old city centres lost the role of residence and centres of …
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Town centre management: developing new strategies based on the e-technology challenge
Over time, the Town Centre has always had an important role in the development of local economies (McAteer and Stephens, 2011), experiencing periods of growth and decline that influenced its physiognomy. The Town Centre’s decline was caused by several different factors, such as the decentralization …
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Load balancing in heterogeneous wireless communications networks. Optimized load aware vertical handovers in satellite-terrestrial hybrid networks incorporating IEEE 802.21 media independent handover and cognitive algorithms.
… In big cities, the densely populated areas like town centres, shopping centres and train stations may have coverage of multiple wireless networks. Traditional Radio Access Technology (RAT) selection algorithms are mainly based on the ¿Always Best Connected¿ paradigm whereby the mobile nodes are …
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Community based workstyle
… In the 1970s, these included building regional town centres, improving transit sys-tem capacity, and expanding suburban work places, all to reduce negative effects of separating work from residence. A major 1990 household survey indicates these physical infrastructure changes slowed the rate of …
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Examining the Impacts of a New Regional Inner-City Retail Development on Liverpool’s Existing Inner-City Shopping Centres and Other Retail Areas
… in regard to retailers in traditional town and city centres. The publication of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in 2012 set out the government’s objectives for town centres. The key strategies from the paper were to promote their vitality and viability by planning for …
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Physical Space in Retail Digitalisation: An Investigation into How Experiential Consumption and Spatial Organisation is Reconfiguring the Retail Value Chain
… public issue concerning the survival of town centres and high streets. However, the reduced concept of e-commerce in retailing as digitised retail channels or matchmakers, appears to ignore the roles played by physical space, such as amenity value for experience, communication and …
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Quality of Urban Life and Intensification: Understanding Housing Choices, Trade-Offs, and the Role of Urban Amenities
… compact city will require the intensification of town centres and existing neighbourhoods by increasing the availability of a variety of multi-unit, multi-use, and multi-storey attached housing typologies. It will also require social changes in terms of the lifestyle expectations and aspirations …
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Access coverage for remote connectivity framework (ACRCF): Facilitating scholarship awarding in Namibia
… for all students whether in resource rich town centres, rural or remote areas.
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DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING FRAMEWORK FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS IN PAKISTAN
… and low-quality houses or slums near the town centres of major cities or go homeless. All the housing finance organizations including House Building Finance Company Limited (HBFC: a public body) use IER to assess the housing affordability; and they do not consider any social and …