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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Urban policy"”.
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Three Essays in Urban Policy
… dissertation share 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 …
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Citizen participation in urban policy.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. B.S.
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Mixed use property development and its place in UK urban policy
During the last 20 years, as part of a putative Urban Renaissance, Mixed Use property development has assumed a prominent place in UK urban policy, producing significant morphological and spatial change based on a distinctive vernacular deemed appropriate for the 21st century city, but which …
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Transport impacts on land use : towards a practical understanding for urban policy making
The premise of this study was that transport impacts on land use are rarely given formal or adequate consideration in the strategic planning system in the UK. Therefore, this research examined current attitudes to transport impacts on land use, amongst a wide range of relevant planners, academics …
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Examining the Role of Urban Policy, Built Environment, and Physical Activity in Mexico City
… inactive. Research exploring the link between urban policies, built environment characteristics, and physical activity has grown over the past two decades. Nevertheless, the available evidence from the region suggests essential differences in the mechanisms through which urban policy and built …
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Transit oriented development in the South African context: an analytical review of Johannesburg's recent urban policy and strategy
… Apartheid spatial planning has defined the urban experience in contemporary South Africa. Many black people still live extraordinarily far from places of economic opportunity and are forced to commute using dissatisfactory public transport services over long distances, for many hours at high …
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Stakeholder Engagement and Conflicting Discourses in Urban Policy in the Two Rivers Urban Park, Cape Town: An Argumentative Discourse Analysis
… has the potential to either enhance urban development outcomes or entrench disagreement and frustration. A major challenge for policy-makers is how to understand and then respond to the narratives, metaphors and arguments contributed by stakeholders. In analysing the public …
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The Governance of Mobilized Urban Policies: The Case of Riyadh's Transit-Oriented Development Program
… around the world are searching for ways to plan urban development to accommodate the growing demand for public infrastructure and amenities due to high rates of urbanization. Urban policies deemed to be successful are often adopted by other cities and hence applied across contexts. Urban Policy …
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Housing Provision through Real Estate Development: Adopting Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing Delivery in Brazil
… analyzes contemporary transformations in urban policy and space production in Brazil; in particular, those associated with state efforts to attract the private sector to participate in the design, finance, development and long-term management of infrastructure and housing provision …
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An analysis of the City Challenge decision-making process : The Dearne Valley Partnership and Sheffield.
… explore the decision-making processes affecting urban change. It uses the City Challenge initiative to help illuminate the changing nature of Urban Policy in Britain and explores the decision-making process in some depth. City Challenge is an urban regeneration initiative introduced in 1991 by …
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Endogeneity and Sampling of Alternatives in Spatial Choice Models
… the development of suitable modeling tools for urban policy analysis, but have been neglected in spatial choice modeling. For the problem of endogeneity, this research applies, enhances, adapts, and develops efficient and tractable methods to correct and test for it in models of residential …
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Spatializing social equity through place-based policies : lessons from the Green Impact Zone of Missouri, in Kansas City, MO
… by the creation of the White House Office of Urban Affairs and the passing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Livable Communities Act. The initiative aims to coordinate and concentrate new resources in a 150-block area that - once the target of formal disinvestment and …
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A democratic governance approach to urban economic development policymaking
… dissertation contributes to the literature on urban development politics. It takes a normative ideal, democratic urban governance, out of the esoteric realm of academic debate and applies it to a critical case study which concerns the most financially consequential area of urban policy, that of …
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No vacancy: explaining the undulation of office building construction projects in Chicago's central business district during the 1970s
… redevelopment strategies and influences urban policy decisions.</p>
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Young people’s active travel in Asia
… factors, and explore how it is discussed in urban- related policies. **Study 1** I first investigated the association between school travel modes and physical activity levels among young people in Asia. I used an accelerometer-assessed physical activity data from 1,052 6 to 7-year-old school …
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Neighbourhood trajectories and social exclusion: towards a citizenship of place
… the path dependency of places – how previous policy eras shape the trajectory and outcomes of places - and the tensions between social inclusion policies and practices on the one hand and competitiveness on the other. Path dependency results from previous legacies of the built form and access …
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Regime Theory Revisited: The Role Of Nonprofit Organizations In Urban Policymaking
… REVISITED: THE ROLE</p> <p>OF NONPROFITS IN URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT</p> <p>by</p> <p>MICHELLE L. WOODDELL</p> <p>AUGUST 2014</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Brady Baybeck</p> <p>Major: Political Science</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>While quite a bit has been written about the …
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"Social sustainability and mobility in Curitiba: bus rapid transit in the ""green city"" of Brazil"
… in the field of public transportation and urban planning. My conclusions have instructive relevance for urban policy formation, especially in the Global south, where Curitiba is heralded as a model ""green city"" to be emulated by governments whose unstable financial realities demand …
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Questions of resilience in municipal finance response to a shock event: a case study of the Cape Town drought
The gaining prominence of resilience in urban policy has meant that urban decision makers are increasingly being asked to exhibit foresight and preparedness in how the urban system is planned and managed. The City of Cape Town has accepted this principle of resilience as a key means of driving …
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
… health threats due to climate change. Building urban resilience requires understanding the complex interplays between environmental and social systems that account for adaptation dynamics. Using new data, computational tools, and economic analysis, this thesis explores how people and places …
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