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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Urban markets"”.
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Multifamily Amenity Wars : defining their current state in luxury urban markets and determining impacts of COVID-19
… housing. The research is based on U.S. urban markets with a special focus on Boston, Massachusetts, where the recent building boom and overall healthy economy have created an active and competitive multifamily development environment. It also aims to answer the question: how has/will …
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Sustainable waste management system for market waste in less economically developed cities: barriers and opportunities
… to global warming. Unlike domestic sources, urban markets provide less heterogeneity in this waste. The literature abounds with domestic waste management studies in developing and developed countries. However, very little has been reported on market waste management in developing countries, …
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Thinking outside the big box : retailers look to America's inner cities
… in established but historically underserved markets in the United States. The goal of this thesis is to investigate to what extent national big box retailers are entering historically underserved markets in America's inner cities. This thesis will study the reasons for retail in underserved …
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Dr. StrangeBox or : how I learned to stop worrying and love urban big box retail
… Big Box retailers have been trying to tap into urban markets after years of explicitly avoiding them in favor of suburban environments. In the past few years, retailers have begun experimenting with new store models and layouts to better integrate into these urban environments. Research was …
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Food Security Crop Price Transmission and Formation in Nigeria
… explore the current conditions and operations of markets for seven key food security crops (cassava, cowpeas, maize, millet, rice, sorghum, and yams) in Nigeria.</p> <p>Chapter 2 is an empirical analysis of the current agricultural statistics system in Nigeria. A number of sources gather and …
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Service behaviors and time preferences of rural and urban restaurant customers
Do customers in rural and urban markets want the same thing from a restaurant server? While researchers have stressed the importance of sub-culture and made the call for empirical research, few studies have incorporated sub-culture into their research, especially within the hospitality industry. …
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Connective development : recognizing the networked city in forming a progressive urban economic development strategy
… Lead institutional and corporate anchors in urban markets are not effectively engaged in this dispersed economic system, further constraining growth. Current Economic Development policies have been unable to catalyze and sustain a period of real sustained growth as they are outdated, …
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The bricks, clicks, economics and mortar of contemporary retail : the consequences that retailer storing strategies and retail performance across markets have on real estate investments
… maintain growth and store performance, such as urban market penetration and multi-channel selling. We also have done a rigorous analysis of retail performance across major U.S. markets to determine the ex post and ex ante effects of trends and strategy changes. The hypothesis of this paper is …
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Local networks : theory and applications
… My analysis is based on the observation that urban markets subdivide into social 'islands' along geographical and socio-economic dimensions: users are more likely to communicate with subscribers 'inside' their island than with those 'outside' it. In a simple evolutionary model I demonstrate …
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Gardens Are for Cash, Grain Is for Life: The Social Organization of Parallel Production Processes in a Rural Bamana Village (Mali)
… production of fresh fruits and vegetables for urban markets in Bamako. I provide data on 22 separate garden production operations. I show that while all individuals have the right to undertake independent income-generating activities, gender, age, family position, and family history all play …
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Private firms and holistic development in second-tier US cities : a case study of repopulating, re-urbanizing Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
… secondary cities are enjoying a well-documented urban renaissance. New residents and their dollars are reversing decades of disinvestment in the urban cores of conventionally less attractive, mid-sized US metro areas. Rising urban populations are largely due to new residents flocking from the …
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Effects of road-network circuity on strategic decisions in urban logistics
… that leverages high-resolution traffic and urban infrastructure data to improve analytical approximation methods used to inform strategic decisions in designing last-mile distribution systems. In particular, this thesis explores the effects of the road-network on the circuity of local trips, …
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Three Essays in Urban Policy
… a common theme of measuring policy effects in urban markets. Though focusing on different outcomes – access to rental housing, property values, and school enrollments – the desire to understand how policy influences the composition of an urban ecosystem provides the link. A particular emphasis …
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Fishing and hunting in the Amazon floodplain : linkages among biodiversity conservation, rural livelihoods and food security
… and environmental changes, including; rapid urbanisation, population growth, (unequal) socio-economic development, nutritional transitions, policy alterations, habitat conversion and climatic change. Despite the potential importance of these changes for biodiversity and human well-being, our …