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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"amenity"”.
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The Amenity Migrants of Cotacachi
This paper addresses amenity migration in Cotacachi, Ecuador. Amenity migration refers to the increasingly popular trend of North Americans (and occasionally Europeans), who are generally retirees, moving to countries such as Panama, Costa Rica and Ecuador in order to enjoy a higher standard of …
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WASHHOUSE : A shared amenity for dense urban environments.
A shift in urban living density triggers a multitude of behavioral changes. The consequences of heightened density are diverse, encompassing shifts in property ownership, alterations to daily routines, changes in workplace locations, and reassessments of the significance of communal engagement and …
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Strategies for developing affordable housing in amenity towns
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.
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Burialand : ritual infrastructure for public amenity in China
This thesis investigates the nature of burial place as a daily public space to mourn people's loss and celebrate their life in the ordinary cities. It seeks a new architectural typology of cemetery to rebuild a relationship between the dead and the living and it envisions the future cemetery to …
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Strandfontein coastal development: proposals for a regional recreation amenity
The basic aim of the planner - stated in very simple terms is to create a better social and physical environment for mankind. With such a broad objective the planner has to be concerned with almost every human experience. In the past certain aspects of planning, notably housing, have been strongly …
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Strandfontein coastal development: proposals for a regional recreation amenity
The basic aim of the planner - stated in very simple terms is to create a better social and physical environment for mankind. With such a broad objective the planner has to be concerned with almost every human experience. In the past certain aspects of planning, notably housing, have been strongly …
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Small-scale and Amenity Focused Forestry: Filling a Market Niche
… service providers working with small acreage or amenity oriented clients were interviewed to determine how their business is structured, how they charge for the services they provide, what reactions they get from their clients, and how successful they perceive themselves to be. Informants came …
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Recreation Capital: Natural Resources, Amenity Development, and Outdoor Recreation in Bend, Oregon
… of recreational resources associated with amenity development. I argue that recreational resources are produced along lines similar to the production of timber, water, or mineral resources. Their production depends on the material characteristics of the resource, infrastructures of …
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National forests are (not) parks : managing amenity migration to America's national forests
… researchers have described the phenomenon of amenity migration -- the movement of people based on the draw of natural amenities -- in counties adjacent to public lands. Simultaneously, recreational uses of U.S. National Forests (USNF) are increasing and expanding. Both amenity migrants and …
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The Amenity Value of Trees: a Meta-analysis of Hedonic, Property-value Studies
… significantly related to the implicit price of amenity tree cover. The amenity tree cover findings suggest that county tree canopy cover of about 42% optimizes implicit price. Recent extreme weather events and ownership of trees contributed to negative implicit prices. These results may assist …
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Population growth in a high amenity area: migration and socio-economic change in Cornwall
… deeper understanding of migration flows to high amenity areas using the example of migration to and from Cornwall. Cornwall is a remote, non-metropolitan county which has been experiencing very strong population growth since the 1970s almost solely due to in-migration. There are several aspects …
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Local Amenity Societies - Participation and Power: A case study on the St Marylebone Society 1948 - 2021
… research evidences the power and influence local amenity societies have had on planning policy, conservation and townscape since World War II. It is based on a single case study of the St Marylebone Society (SMS), an amenity society founded in 1948 to protect the townscape of Marylebone in central …
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Ecosystem services of urban amenity greenspace and the impact of future climate and socio-economic change
… nineecosystem services delivered by urban amenity greenspace and projects responses to futurechallenges.Botanical and environmental data relating to five regulating services and fourcultural services were collected in Runcorn, the case study area. The impacts of humanintervention were …
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Multifamily Amenity Wars : defining their current state in luxury urban markets and determining impacts of COVID-19
… residential amenities and the popularly-called "Amenity Wars" in luxury multifamily 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 …
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The use of indigenous plant material by local authorities in amenity horticulture in the Cape Province of South Africa
… the current use of indigenous plant material in Amenity Horticulture by local authorities in the Cape Province. It focuses on the built-up and street environments, and includes public gardens, pavements, road verges, recreational grounds, walkways and car parks which fall under the jurisdiction …
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The effect of contemporary supermarket formats (superstores) on surrounding residential property values
… as superstores. The hypothesis is that both amenity and disamenity effects exist. Supermarkets are generally considered to be an amenity and a convenience in residential communities where they are located. It is thus hypothesized that households will prefer to live near superstores to enhance …
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Determining the Value of Pedestrian Surfaces in Suburban DC
… on the effect pedestrian surfaces along these amenity routes have on the market value of single family detached and semi-detached homes in Fairfax County, VA. It was found that increases in pedestrian surfaces along amenity routes had little to no effect on home value, but that 3.3%, 1.2 %, and …
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Determinación del valor de amenity de la tierra rural circundante a la ruta 39 del municipio de Exaltación de la Cruz en la provincia de Buenos Aires
Este trabajo pretende contribuir a la literatura existente sobre las amenidades del medio ambiente. Se propone conocer si los individuos de un ámbito rural valoran la conservación del paisaje ante el avance de la suburbanización y, a la vez, de qué variables depende la valoración que los individuos …
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The Value of Urban Amenities: Analyzing the Changing Dynamics of Consumer Goods, Mobility, and Green Spaces in Cities
… three essays, each utilizing a distinct type of amenity to demonstrate the processes, dynamics, and underlying reasons for the changing landscape of urban amenities. Essay 1 focuses on an everyday amenity—retail stores in the context of the working-from-home (WFH) transition, highlighting the …
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