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Showing 1 to 20 of 719 for “"Urban development"”.
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An urban development center.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1967. M.Arch.
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Urban development partnerships in industrial cities
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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DePUDS: Decentralized Prosocial Urban Development System
Urban areas face severe socio-economic and environmental challenges like housing crises, inequity, and environmental degradation, often worsened by traditional zoning practices. These are typically rigid, inefficient, outdated, and susceptible to obstruction by narrow special interests (NIMBYism), …
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Urban development growth strategies and societal wellbeing
… of people. However, population growth and urban expansion have put pressure on social and environmental conditions. Despite the efforts of urban researchers to comprehend urban growth and the interconnectedness of urban sectors, it remains imperative to integrate key sectors …
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Characteristics of urban development and associated stormwater quality
Urban land uses and their associated impervious cover increase the quantity and worsen the quality of stormwater runoff, which can seriously impair receiving waters. It is known that there is considerable variability in runoff quantity and quality between rain-to-rain events due to rainfall spatial …
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Urban development partnerships challenges for leadership and management
… very liberally in the context of large scale urban development. Mixed-use, brownfield projects, transit-oriented development, urban regeneration: all these projects require partnerships of a sort. This thesis reviews definitions of partnership and outlines benefits and shortcomings. In …
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The Philadelphia triangle : a study in urban development
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1947.
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Planning by contract? : negotiated regulation in urban development
… century, a new term entered the lexicon of urban redevelopment: the community benefits agreement (CBA). Although the term has been applied to a variety of arrangements, it frequently refers to a set of written commitments between a developer and organizations claiming to represent residents …
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An empirical study of attitudes towards green urban development
… property owners’ preference toward sustainable urban development, in the form of three-essays. In the first essay, property owners’ preference toward the concept of compact development is identified. Compact development is an increasingly popular concept that includes multiple aspects, such as …
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Railways, land-use planning and urban development : 1948-94.
… British land-use planning and the management and development of the railway network in the years between 1948-94 when British railways were in public ownership. Although the research was focused on the nationalised main line system, it reviewed other rail systems where this was helpful to the …
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Transitioning to sustainable urban development: a niche-based approach
… social and technological structures that guide urban development. While modern planning offers a century’s worth of solutions to environmental problems at the local scale, many of these ‘first-order’ solutions exacerbate problems at larger scales (e.g. sprawl, auto dependency, climate change). …
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Sustainable urban development under climate change and resource scarcity
The urgent need to transform our patterns of urban development has been expressed not only by the scientific community but also in the policy arena. Current concerns relate to increasing urbanisation and global environmental trends in regard to resource scarcity, climate change and degrading …
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Sites and services : a strategy for Kenyan urban development.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Peri-urban development in Africa: a Kenyan case study
Studies of African urban development have used the term “peri-urban" to refer to residential development at a city’s edge. No one, however, has developed a precise definition of peri-urban areas which guides this research. This study attempts to define peri-urban areas using an urban economic model …
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Introducing Mangrove Mitigation to the Urban Development in Mumbai
… is the economic capital and the most densely urbanized coastal city of India. Environmental strain caused by rapid development of the city is studied with focus on one aspect of Mumbai's environment, the mangrove ecology, which has been threatened by urbanization ever since the city began to …
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The changing role of urban design in China's urban development
… of the Chinese planning system on design, urban design in particular, and to search for ways to integrate urban design thinking with existing urban planning agendas to improve design control in China. The reason for undertaking this research was due to the general perception that urban …
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A Study of Urban Development on Commercial Street, Springfield, Missouri
Urban development has been one of the most important trends in the United States over the last decade and a half. Two popular ways urban development has been studied are through stakeholder relations and discourse. Often these two approaches to studying urban development are kept separate, but by …
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Investing (in) equity : how can urban development internalize social cost?
… the social costs created by privately driven urban development while also acknowledging cities' fiscal dependence on local property taxes. This study is based on the premise that equitable spatial distribution of affordable housing can alter existing social perceptions and norms while …
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Narrating the Politics of Urban Development in “New Era” Boston
Since 1950, urban governance in the city of Boston has been predicated on the close collaboration between the city’s economic and political elite, anchored in the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA). A common narrative in Boston is that this “growth coalition” has historically achieved …
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Urban dwelling environments : Ankara, Turkey : case studies : Macunkoy urban development.
Thesis (M. Arch. A.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1975.
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