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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Urban fringe"”.
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Land Use on the Urban Fringe
Due to their location on the urban fringe, many historically agricultural counties face development pressure from a spreading urban core. These local communities must contend with often conflicting objectives of providing economic development opportunities while at the same time protecting their …
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Human geographies of the rural-urban fringe: Social dynamics of land development in the Nairobi rural-urban fringe, Kenya
The process of urbanization is one of the most important dimensions of economic, social and physical change. It is almost a truism that the planet’s future is an urban one and that the largest and fastest growing cities are primarily in developing countries. As in other parts of the developing …
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Auxiliary Procedures for the AGNPS Model in Urban Fringe Watersheds
… model and incorporated methods for representing urban fringe land uses and their nonpoint source (NPS) pollution contributions in model inputs. Auxiliary procedures for modeling with AGNPS were developed both for enhancing input into the model and for enhancing modeled output. On an event basis, …
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Women's work and household income: evidence from Bangkok's urban fringe
… identified apply to the emerging metropolitan fringe areas. I argue that women in metropolitan fringe communities are more marginalized than men in terms of type of employment, location of employment, hours of employment, and remuneration. Women contribute different amounts and proportions of …
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Zoned out: Conflict and perceived threat in a rural-urban fringe area
… for support and opposition to zoning in rural-urban fringe county. Findings illustrate how perceived threat is associated with what individuals in the community recognize the goals and consequences of zoning policy to be. Implications of the findings and future research are also discussed.
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Supply response and the land conversion process in the rural-urban fringe
… to the land conversion process in the rural-urban fringe. Emphasis was placed on the derivation of the farmer's dynamic supply-response curve of agricultural land for urban uses since the nature of this curve has important implications for land-use policy alternatives in fringe areas. It was …
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The Colonias Proletarias of Mexico City: low income settlements at the urban fringe.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1966. M.C.P.
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Predicting user numbers of an urban fringe Pennine moorland using time and weather variables
… 24/7 user counting exercise on an area of urban-fringe moorland. The results of this study are discussed and used to predict future land use. The results of this study are compared with results from lower resolution user counts in other wilderness areas. This study was conceived to address …
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Changing Land Use in the Rural-Urban Fringe: A Case Study of Southwest Grand Forks
… had declined to 26.7 percent of the total, with urban land uses such as single family residential, strip development and shopping center making significant increases. As the area became urbanized, problems devel oped. In 1979 the English Coulee unexpectedly flooded, damaging homes and the acute …
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Farmland Values in an Urban Fringe: An Analysis of Market Data From Will County, Illinois
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:23:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009001.pdf: 8227063 bytes, checksum: 41ed96db62e967f9c141cf2af37738a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Growth and poverty in the urban fringe : decentralization, dispersion, and inequality in greater Buenos Aires
… the late 1970s, when the decentralization of urban planning powers in the Province of Buenos Aires began, until 2001, when an economic crisis submerged -even if transitorily- more than half of all metropolitan households below the poverty line. This thesis explores why social inequality within …
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Suggested policies in regard to Suburban expansion into the Urban fringe (the Constantia Village), book 1
… and analysing the problems which arise from suburban expansion into the urban fringe; and on suggesting certain policy measures which could serve as a basis for directing development in such a way as to avoid these problems. The urban fringe is recognized as the contact zone between the city and …
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Assessing growth preferences on the rural-urban fringe using a discrete choice model and spatial analysis methods
Landscapes on the rural-urban fringe are experiencing change and diversification, yet the preferences of local residents for how these landscapes should develop is largely overlooked. My thesis contributes to a growing body of research that explores residents’ preferences for landscape change …
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Suggested policies in regard to suburban expansion into the urban fringe : using the Constantia Valley as a case study
… problems which are characteristic of the suburbanization of the urban fringe in general, it is necessary to consider how these problems could be resolved. In seeking such solutions, it is not only useful, but imperative, to determine sane framework of what the desired future state of the …
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Fringe town : revitalization on the margin, assessing small downtown revival and catalytic real estate development feasibility on the urban fringe
… and other such small towns on the urban fringe, this research was divided into three broad parts: [1] local contextualization of Somersworth-Berwick and empirical studies of small town revitalization, [2] a local market analysis, and [3] a site plan and financial feasibility model. …
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Extending broadband past the urban fringe with wireless mesh : a strategic analysis with policy implications for Kenya's Universal Service Fund
As the competitive wholesale cost of bandwidth continues to plummet in Kenya, last-mile networks have become a bottleneck in the extension of affordable broadband outside major cities. In this work we explore the business case for small-scale wireless mesh networks as a means to implement …
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SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS IN TRIPOLI, LIBYA: ASSESSING, MONITORING, AND ANALYZING THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF URBAN SQUATTER AREAS IN THE PERI-URBAN FRINGE
… Libya has been dominated by a high rate of urbanization since it became an independent state in 1951, with vast improvements in all aspects of life. This phenomenon brought domination of some cities, such as Tripoli and Benghazi. Therefore, in a country with multiple large cities that “pull” …
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The eastern crescent and beyond : the current state of and potential for local food production and multifunctional agriculture in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown peri-urban fringe
By 2050, urban areas will house 68% of the total global population (United Nations, 2018). As these areas expand, agricultural lands are lost to development. In the United States, the bulk of this agricultural land is located in the peri-urban fringe – a distinct area that exists between urban and …
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The Value of Inclusion of the Peri-Urban Interface on Quality of Life for the Urban Population
This paper examines peri-urban space existing separate from the urban fabric and often in between urban and rural landscapes. This is a largely neglected area and often considered by each side as belonging to the other. Contemporary studies identify two sides associated with the rural-urban fringe: …
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