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Showing 1 to 20 of 1045 for “"Urbanization"”.
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Floating Urbanization
Climate change is a daily challenge that we are faced with, it has become a part of our lives and is altering how we live. Architecture plays a vital role in life and it is crucial for architecture to be able to adapt to the climate conditions that may arise. A large percentage of the population …
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Critical Cartographies of Transnational Infrastructure-led Urbanization
… has been subjected to China’s infrastructure-led urbanization. As a result, the local fishing community – numbering close to 36,000 - and its eco-system have been impacted and displaced, triggering large-scale protests that have been censored by the state-run media. This thesis is thus a manifesto …
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An urbanization policy for Central American countries.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1965. M.C.P.
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Passenger transport issues and urbanization in India
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Urbanization affects environmental conditions for developing songbirds
Urbanization introduces a set of novel stressors for animals in these modified habitats. Developing young, in particular, can be at risk due to increased predation, exposure, and high food intake requirements. Song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) are a model wild songbird system that persist in both …
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Urbanization process models, internal rural-urban migration, and the role of institutions in China : three essays on urbanization and migration
… dissertation is a collection of three essays on urbanization and migration. The first essay is a treatment on the urbanization theory. I discuss the ambiguity in the urban concept, and propose a comprehensive urban concept which includes the demographic, physical, economic, social, and cultural …
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Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… of the changes and the subject of the fiction. Urbanization made modernity manifest in three ways: the close proximity and racial diversity of city life, the (limited) mobility urbanization offered women, and the growth of consumer culture. Drawing on debates from turn of the century urban …
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Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity and Urbanization in Vietnam
… to national trends of economic privatization and urbanization. Through worlding processes, volunteers use available moral resources – from religion and politics to pop culture – in cultivating ethical modes of existence together. Overall, my dissertation provides insights into how Buddhism …
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Some aspects of urbanization policies in developing areas
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1960.
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Urbanization of agricultural land : informal settlements in Cairo
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981.
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Migrant Capitalism: Emigration, Remittances, and Urbanization in Punjab
… crop failures, in the context of India’s uneven urbanization. To conceptually systematize the type of political economy borne out of these emerging migrations, this dissertation contributes to literature in development studies and geography by introducing the concept of “migrant …
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Urbanization as if people mattered: why the rural urbanization-industrialization complex does not bring its promised welfare impact--three alternative explanations
… is a collection of three essays related to the urbanization-industrialization nexus and its welfare impact in Indonesia. In the first essay I evaluate whether farmers' loss of access to productive farm lands negatively affect their livelihood in rapidly urbanizing rural areas. I hypothesize that …
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Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon
… argue that capitalization is now central to the urbanization process and that the urban fabric has provided the corporation with a durable structure to guarantee a stream of income. Capitalized urbanization, I contend, is the building of a certain future into the urban present - also understood …
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Simulation of the effects of urbanization on catchment response.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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Effects of Urbanization on Stress Response of Texas Eurycea salamanders
No abstract prepared.
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Levees, Urbanization and Public Perception: Implications for Southeast Louisiana Wetlands
… of the Mississippi River levees and increased urbanization the wetlands are quickly disappearing, thus leaving the area vulnerable to hurricane storm surge. Since Hurricane Katrina, levees have been showcased as the only way of fully protecting southeast Louisiana from floods and storms; …
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Effects of Urbanization on the Avian Community of Oak Woodlands
… providing an opportunity to study the effects of urbanization. Across this gradient, during the summers of 2018 and 2019, point-count surveys of breeding birds in 28 oak woodland patches were performed to measure the effect of urbanization on the local bird community. Contrary to similar studies, …
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The Occurrence of Hyalophora Cecropia (L.) as Related to Urbanization
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