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Showing 1 to 20 of 1854 for “"and Urban."”.
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Transportation and urban form.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1966. M.Arch.
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Economic control and urban growth.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Chinatown and Urban Redevelopment: A Spatial Narrative of Race, Identity, and Urban Politics, 1950-2000
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Advanced producer services and urban growth.
… have traditionally been viewed as secondary to, and at best supportive of, manufacturing industries. This thesis is designed to challenge this view with regard to a particular group of services, advanced producer services. It contends that this group makes both direct and indirect contributions …
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Towards sustainable architecture and urban form
Traditional architectural and urban artefacts are showed over the centuries as a powerful imprint of human actions and practices and are being developed on the basis of concrete socio-cultural factors and environmental rationalities. Spatial and morphological patterns of traditional environments …
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Essays in development and urban economics
… than imported gasoline. This caused a quick and drastic increase in air pollution levels that varied significantly across individual neighborhoods. Using this natural experiment and unique administrative data on Tehran’s housing market, we find that an increase of approximately 30 …
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Essays in public and urban economics
… first chapter provides evidence on the incidence and distortionary effects of taxes on rental properties, using a unique administrative dataset on housing transactions in Tehran. I exploit a special feature of the tax code in the Tehran rental market where the tax-exemption threshold is based on …
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Fiscal decentralization and urban public transport
… on different grounds: equity, natural monopoly and, particularly with the increasing motorization rate, externalities produced by private transport (congestion, pollution, road accidents) especially in urban areas. In addition, there is a belief that transport investments support economic …
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Cost-benefit analysis and urban renewal.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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School Psychology Shortage And Urban/Rural Differences
1 PDF file (71 leaves)
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Technology and urban form, Chicago 1830-1972
… to trace the influences which are exerted on the urban environment by changing developments in technology, operating in combination with social, economic and political factors, and to study the results of these influences by observing the evolving forms and conditions of the city at particular …
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Re -Imagining Istanbul: Globalization and Urban Change
This study is situated in and seeks to contribute to an expanding body of literature on globalization and cities, and more specifically to the global city theory and research. These studies have drawn attention to the growing significance of particular cities as sites of globalization through which …
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Three essays on labor and urban economics
… of three unrelated essays in the fields of labor and urban economics. The first essay exploits the creation of a formal college system in Quebec in the late 1960's as a quasi-experiment to estimate the value of community college. Focusing on the effect of the policy on English-speaking Quebecois, …
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Essays in industrial organization and urban economics
… two chapters of this thesis study the wholesale and retail tier of the beer supermarket sales. In the first chapter, I am interested in consolidation of distributors in the beer industry and its interaction with the uniform pricing by retailers. I build a theoretical model which illustrates how …
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Advancing accessibility : public transport and urban space
After decades of academic research, urban accessibility metrics are beginning to see adoption in transportation and metropolitan planning practice. Such metrics capture the potential for reaching destinations enabled by transport (e.g. number of jobs available within a given commute time), not just …
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Population policy and urban housing in China
This thesis will focus on how urban housing design reflects the new one-child family population policy in the traditional urban context in Beijing, China. The population policy has changed the size and structure of traditional family, and further affected children's growing up environment. …
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Carrion-associated arthropods in rural and urban environments
… that are attracted to pig carcasses in rural and urban habitats in Northwest Indiana. The species and number of carrion-associated arthropods that are found at a carcass vary with habitat type, month, and stage of decomposition. Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is a synanthropic …
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