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Model Villages
… contexts. Given the limited scholarship on model villages, it critically examines what it means to be a model—and a model for what. Through empirical qualitative research in India and Germany, the study investigates the utopian visions of ideal rurality underlying these projects and how they are …
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Do villages still matter?
… growth, this research asks the question: Do villages still matter? Three case studies were chosen that cover a wide geographic range, selecting two contemporary cases in areas with some of the highest rates of urbanization. The historic case broadens the geographic scope of the study, but …
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New villages for the people of the North : relocation strategy for Alaskan native villages
The existing coastal native Alaskan villages are facing the direct impacts of global warming, in particular due to disappearing ice sheets and rapidly thawing permafrost. The impacts ultimately result in erosion of the shorelines, flooding of the riverbanks, and destabilization of foundations - …
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Predicting minimum savings in Thai villages
Amador Werning Angeletos (2006) characterize the conditions under which optimal saving/ consumption decision are determined by a minimum savings policy. I test this model empirically against data from the Townsend Thai Monthly Survey. Each household's income distribution, measure of risk aversion. …
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A flexible system for Olympic villages
… and its systems approach in constructing Olympic Villages which are used both during and after the Games. A historical overview of ancient Olympia and modern Olympia, as well as a case study of modern Olympic Villages deal with the conceptual problem which were arisen in the design of Olympic …
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Decision-making processes in four West Javanese villages
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_109833945.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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People's places : public spatial structure in Chinese villages
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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Cattle and Water Buffalo Production in Villages of Northeast Thailand
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T00:36:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212362.pdf: 6535873 bytes, checksum: 401e292e0afaafe979b07ad611e63de2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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The scarcity of domestic energy : a study in three villages.
… on domestic fuel consumption in African villages in Southern Africa. And yet, it is a problem that concerns a large number of people, and which is contributing to environmental deterioration. At three villages, in Lesotho, Transkei and KwaZulu, the collection and consumption of wood, dung …
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Public realm usage patterns : lessons from Shenzhen's disappearing urban villages
Shenzhen's villages in the city or urban villages are forms of informal settlement that emerged in the midst of rapid Chinese urbanization. For a period of time, both the city and villages mutually benefited from the arrangement where rural-designated urban villages used their unrestricted …
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International development in two rural Kenyan villages: a transnational feminist approach
… and stories of the women who live in the villages of Umoja and Unity in the northern Samburu region of Kenya and the impacts of Western driven international development projects in their communities. Through semi-structured interviews conducted in the villages of Umoja and Unity this …
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Quaternary geology of the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
<p>The archeology of the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site is being studied by the University of North Dakota Anthropology Department. The age of the near surface sediment and depositional history of Quaternary sediments are useful to archeologists involved in locating and …
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Rural income, welfare and migration : a study of three Ciskeian villages
… based on a microeconomic study of three Ciskeian villages, examines these issues, and attempts to use the understanding so gained, to consider the likelihood of continued circular migration. Chapter 1 places the study in context, providing necessary background to the research area. Chapter 2 looks …
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Turkish Villages After an Earthquake: An Analysis of Disaster Related Modernization
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:41:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7500372.pdf: 6075649 bytes, checksum: 005bad505ddd53b94ab82b329a82b257 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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The consumption of energy for domestic use in three African villages
… on domestic fuel consumption in African villages in Southern Africa. And yet, it is a problem that concerns a large number of people, and which is contributing to environmental deterioration. At three villages, 'in Lesotho, Transkei and KwaZulu, the collection and consumption of wood, …
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Invisible villages: changing residential patterns and relationships in a rural village
This study centres on the village of Greyton, near Caledon in the Western Cape. It investigates the contemporary and historic changes in its population, residence patterns, relationships and economic activity. It focusses particularly on the effects of the implementation of the Group Areas Act in …
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Villages of Delhi : towards inclusivity and plurality in the urbanizing countryside
… gated residential enclaves and ghettoized villages. The resultant urban form is an archipelagic state that supports only certain types of urban citizenship, systematically removing and de-legitimizing rural modes of existence and citizenry. Following the trend of urbanization of peripheral …
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