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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Urban problems"”.
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Urban data mining : social media data analysis as a complementary tool for urban design
… opportunity to help identify and solve urban problems. This thesis aimed to explore the potential of machine learning and data mining in finding patterns in "big" urban data. We explored several different types of user generated urban data, including Call Detail Records (CDR) data and …
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The struggle for vibrancy : a study of local government intervention in Detroit's inner suburbs
… of central cities confront traditionally "urban" problems. Detroit's inner suburbs struggle with aging infrastructure, limited governmental capacity, commercial disinvestment, population decline, poverty, failing schools, and racial and ethnic tensions. These challenges are compounded by …
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The role of Integrated spatial planning in restructuring Cape Town : the redevelopment of Wingfield
… including Cape Town, have inherited an skewed urban form which is intensified by the current high levels of in-migration and urbanization which cause great socio-economic and spatial structural urban problems. In a response to these urban issues, this dissertation argues for strategic …
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An Analysis of the Impact of Racial Transition on the Desirability of Neighborhoods.
… cities, they also are plagued by overwhelming problems. Every urban problem evolves out of a historical context.In order to understand the impact of racial transition on a southern city, we must be familiar with how southern cities developed historically and how the racial patterns which caused …
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Ocupação do solo urbano, legislação e licenciamento ambiental no bairro de Gramame – João Pessoa - PB (1992– 2013).
This study aims to analyze the influence of the urbanization process in João Pessoa, with emphasis in the neighborhood Gramame from 1992 to 2013. Our concern is to link environmental and urban problems using as instruments urban policies, such as the Master Plan, Urban Code and Municipal Code of …
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Outlining the indeterminate emergence : landscape as a framework in contemporary urbanism
… has become an emerging medium in the practice of urban design projects. Rather than architecture, landscape, once viewed as margin and subordinate of the architecture and planning discipline, now reverse its role from passive ground to active figure in the discussion of urbanism. However, the …
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Framing dispersal : urban strategies for Mexico City's sprawl
Within the framework of Mexico City's urban sprawl, this thesis investigates one specific type of territorial occupation: the urbanization of subsidized housing developments on the periphery, which accounts for 17% of the city's total urban footprint, and has generated unlivable neighborhoods. …
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Urban Data and its Application for Smart Cities
… and Internet of Things (IoT) in the rapid urbanizing cities, data is being generated, collected and analyzed to solve urban problems in the areas of transportation, epidemiology, emergency management, economics, and sustainability etc. The work in this area basically involves analyzing one …
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A critical evaluation of Libya's urban spatial system between 1970 and 2006
In Libya, rural-urban migration and rapid population growth were intensified by the discovery of oil and brought the polarization by the big cities. This polarization has become a major issue of problems within the urban spatial planning, particularly in the case of Tripoli and Benghazi. In order …
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Living Circles Towards Green Travels: A Study on the Correlation Between Facility Layout and Travel Behavior
… and its associated carbon emissions are pressing urban problems that urgently need to be addressed. As the primary transition zone between walking, cycling, and driving, 15-minute living circles have the potential to promote green travel. This thesis addresses the question of how facility layout …
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Transitions between town and metropolis : planning strategies for development and conservation of colonial Zacatecas
… colonial town into a Mexican metropolis. As the urban population of Zacatecas grows, and urban pressures erode its historic center, it becomes crucial to tie government efforts and policies not only to the solution of urban problems in this area, but also to the conservation and development of …
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Paying for public transportation : the optimal, the actual, and the possible
… the potential to be part of a solution to these urban problems, yet transit agencies across the country clamor for more resources. Transit finance in the U.S. is heterogeneous, and rarely approached with a comprehensive view of transit's social benefits. This thesis suggests a framework for a …
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The RoboScooter a new personal mobility system
… two features are designed to solve two critique urban problems, congestion and pollution. Based on the MIT Smart Cities research group's Robot Wheel technology, I built two 2- wheeler prototypes. The project was divided into two different phases. Phase one was focused on figuring out a correct …
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An analysis of the Shirley Highway Express-Bus-on-Freeway Demonstration Project
One of the most critical urban problems is the ever-increasing demand for transportation facilities. An alternative for reducing the degree of peak-hour congestion is to increase the passenger movement capability of a facility by providing exclusive bus lanes. The Shirley Highway …
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Explorations on an urban interventions management system: a reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change.
How we plan and manage urban development has become an increasingly complex challenge, due to unpredictable and rapid conditional changes in post-modern cities. In turn, this calls for a paradigm shift in the way we understand and practice urban planning and design. A resilient urban planning …
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SOCIAL HOUSING IN WATERFRONT REGENERATION: A CRITICAL EVALUATION
… agenda. The main findings were that anticipated problems were greatly over-estimated by the hypotheses adopted, and that mixed-use waterfronts have substantial appeal for the large majority of social housing tenants. This reflects a complex range influences. Despite high satisfaction levels, …
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A new trajectory for spatial data infrastructure evolution in the developing world
… into more relevant platforms for confronting the urban crisis in developing nations and thereby ensuring that they have the societal impact that they are intended to. The research explores the characteristics of the mainstream efforts to counter urban crises in the developing world to determine …
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Randolph : Boston's gateway suburb
… struggle with issues traditionally thought of as urban problems and dealt with in city settings, such as failing schools, fragmented community, affordable housing, immigrant incorporation, poverty, crime, and others. These places have historically functioned as a first step into the suburbs for …
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Fables of undiscovered cities
… we rediscover the old. As the discipline of urban design developed, designers engaged disciplines assisted by numerous technologies and applications. We have ambitions to digitize and analyze every corner of our existing world, however, in grasping the world more precisely and effectively, we …
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Assessing the sustainability of Urban Residential Development: An effects based rating
The effects of historically inefficient urban design have begun to create small negative consequences in urban environments. The aggregation of these small scale changes has led to increasingly recognised large scale impacts. These include, amongst others, climate change, decreasing species …
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