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Showing 1 to 20 of 234 for “"Urban and Regional Planning"”.
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Transportation aspects of Southern African universities. Volume2
… Southern African Universities", to Deportment of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town. October 1971.
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An inquiry into the use of the ecological approach for environmental and land use planning in the Howick sub-region, Natal
The recent and current world-wide public concern on the erosion, destruction and pollution of the natural environment has led to a reassessment of the discipline of Urban and Regional Planning - or Town and Country Planning as it is termed in Britain.
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Spatial analysis of development potential in South Africa : a study of theory and methods for the spatial analysis of urban and regional systems in the South African context
Space in all its aspects is a central concern of planning research. The common sense view of space - determined by height, length and breadth - is giving way to a richer concept . Physical space seems to be merely one aspect of the multi-dimensional framework within which men and women carry out …
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No al aeropuerto in texxoco! : regional decision-making and community countermobilization : the siting of Mexico City's new airport
Despite the presence of numerous urban and regional planning commISSIons in the Mexico City region, they are noticeably absent from the national decision to site a new airport. If regional and local interests do not have a say in national decision-making, what does this mean for democracy? These …
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Contextual Practices in City Infrastructure Planning in the US and Indonesia
… an international examination of infrastructure planning in context, which applies new institutional economics and transaction costs theory for comparative international study, collecting exemplary social infrastructure practices across the global north and south, and contrasting economic zones …
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Perceived Risk and the Siting of a Controversial Wastewater Treatment Plant in Central Texas
… primary intervening variables (resources, trust, and risk communication) influenced the amplification and attenuation of perceived risk during a regulatory permitting process. The objective was to better understand the role of risk perception in a water policy decision, the issuance of a permit by …
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A settlement-level perspective of the spatial relationship between economic performance and population change in South Africa between 2001 and 2011
… shaping the demographic profile of South Africa, and migration and labour are often considered to be intrinsically linked. The push–pull theory of migration, which still tends to dominate gravity-based migration modelling as well as academic thinking, is grounded on the assumption that migration …
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Regional planning and the energy efficiency purposes
… climate change impacts are clearly visible in urban regions throughout Iran, including Tehran Region; second, despite the national regulations set to reduce the use of fossil energies, the use of those energies are still high in different consumption types; third, the Tehran Metropolitan Region …
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Social Media Geographic Information (SMGI): opportunities for spatial planning and governance
… resource for supporting design, analysis and decision-making in spatial planning. The widespread diffusion of Web 2.0 technologies and tools such as geobrowsers, Application Programming Interfaces (API), GPS-enabled mobile devices, and recently Location-Based Social Networks are fostering …
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Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainability in Urban Planning and the Energy Impact of Sprawl
… focuses on key issues in the analysis and application of sustainability in urban planning and household energy consumption. First, we address the need for a better method to translate the concept and tools of sustainability from theory to practice by developing a collaborative framework …
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Technology and urban form, Chicago 1830-1972
… to trace the influences which are exerted on the urban environment by changing developments in technology, operating in combination with social, economic and political factors, and to study the results of these influences by observing the evolving forms and conditions of the city at particular …
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A Critical Assessment of The Bridges Redevelopment Process in Calgary
… Bridges ensures lessons learned are understood and potentially applied to future projects. This case study of a City-led redevelopment project offers an opportunity to analyze the planning, design and implementation process for an award-winning master-planned community currently underway. It …
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Bridging Implementation Gaps: Building Complete Communities Around Light Rail Stations in Calgary
… in Calgary, Canada. It defines the Community Planning Process (CPP) as a cycle with five stages: Vision, Plans, Implementation, Evaluation and Feedback where the communication of Evaluation outcomes (Feedback) loops back to inform the next cycle and improve future physical and functional …
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Design of a Support Tool for Citizens Engaging in Urban Planning Online
Online engagement in urban planning is accessible and convenient, but lacks face-to-face expert feedback and support. This research undertakes design of online support for lay citizens, to complement online participation environments. The design examines multiple planning strategy alternatives at …
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A Long Road Home: Post Disaster Community Redevelopment in Haiti
… case studies. Inadequate national leadership and land tenure issues have hampered redevelopment, but NGOs working to advance physical, social, economic, and social improvements at the neighbourhood scale. Development plans, and plan implementations are examined within the neighbourhood …
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Mains, Drains and Strains: The Emergence of Urban Water and Waste Systems in the United States
It has been concluded that the emergence of water and waste systems was the result of the simultaneous and consubstantial emergence of society and technology in a interactive process that defined urban conditions, the problems associated with those conditions, the solutions to those problems and …
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Life in a Men's Homeless Shelter and the Relevance of Time as a Moral Force
… in the shelter's system--its rules, processes, and objectives--is a moral evaluation of the residents as time deviants. The shelter assumes two things: that to be a functional member of U.S. society one must respect time schedules and that the residents have failed to demonstrate this respect. …
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The Economics of Housing Renovation: Three Empirical Studies
… renovation activity among hundreds of thousands of buildings in two different cities and five-year periods: New York in the late 1960s, the birthplace and early years of gentrification; and Chicago in the late 1990s, where recent residential revitalization has been brisk. The first two …
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Three Essays in Urban and Public Economics
… underprovision of public goods. In Chapters 2 and 3, urban growth controls (land use regulations adopted to restrict population growth and urban sprawl) are studied. The previous literature has shown that controls increase housing prices and divert population growth to uncontrolled cities. In …
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