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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"municipal planning"”.
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Mainstreaming Water Energy Food Nexus thinking and drought preparedness into local municipal planning: An analysis in the Bergrivier Municipality
… scale focusing on the drought impacts on a local municipality and major employers through a Water Energy Food Nexus lens. The study is grounded on literature based on water-energy-food nexus, the sustainable livelihoods framework and drought. Given that natural disasters such as drought tend to …
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Analysis of Factors Contributing To Early Adoption of Multi- Municipal Comprehensive Plans in Pennsylvania
… Act 67 and Act 68, amending the Pennsylvania Municipal Planning Code. These amendments gave more power and tools to municipalities for developing multi-municipal comprehensive plans with neighboring municipalities. In this study, I use logistic regression to examine whether there are …
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Embodied Carbon Reduction in British Columbia Municipalities’ New Residential Development Projects
… change mitigation strategies. British Columbia municipalities (including Vancouver, Port Moody, Nelson, Squamish, Whistler, and Saanich) aspire to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and attain net-zero emissions in municipal operations by 2040. However, current literature falls short of …
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Development planning and integration of migration in the city of uMhlathuze, South Africa
Migration, as a global phenomenon, affects municipalities not only in South Africa but across the globe. Therefore, it must be factored into municipal policy, planning and budget processes. Against this backdrop, this study investigated the extent to which municipal development planning integrated …
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Manufacturing recovery : a networked approach to green job creation in Massachusetts Gateway cities
In this thesis, I compare workforce development planning in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts, two of the state's older industrial "Gateway" cities. I specifically examine local planning processes around job creation in the clean technology (clean tech) sector. Contradicting the notion of the …
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An Evolving Main Street: The Impact of Urban Renewal on Downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1966-1974
… between 1966 and 1974. It tells the story of municipal planning in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a small southwestern city, following the Second World War. This thesis tries to answer the question of why officials favored the application of suburban planning solutions to the downtown. What reasoning …
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Advancing equitable transit oriented development in Massachusetts : a framework and lessons from four gateway cities
… Using interviews, data analysis and a survey of municipal planning documents related to housing, business and workforce development from four of the thirteen Gateway Cities with commuter rail access (Fitchburg Lawrence, Salem and Lynn), this client based thesis proposes an equitable development …
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Desenvolvimento econômico local: o caso do município de Livramento-PB
… with interviews with key managers of the municipality. Through interviews it was possible to obtain important information about the strategies that municipal management has done to improve the quality of life of the population. Data were collected from Censuses provided by the Brazilian …
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Doing their part? : proactive planning and deliberate avoidance of affordable housing by Massachusetts communities in response to Chapter 40B
… a streamlined permitting process through which municipalities may waive local regulations that impede the construction of affordable units. Chapter 40B also establishes a state appeals court to which developers may appeal local permitting decisions if less than 10% of a community's housing stock …
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An examination of the planning approval process for materials recovery facilities in Ontario.
… social and political consequences at the local, municipal and provincial levels. As a result, the purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the claims of inconsistencies in the planning approval process for MRFs. Through an examination of the provincial legislation governing MRFs, …
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The global walkability index
… amenities, and services are often neglected in municipal planning and budgets. Since helping city planners understand the scope and extent of local pedestrian conditions relative to other cities would be a positive step towards improving the quality of the pedestrian environment, I was retained …
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Growth and poverty in the urban fringe : decentralization, dispersion, and inequality in greater Buenos Aires
… late 1970s, when the decentralization of urban planning powers in the Province of Buenos Aires began, until 2001, when an economic crisis submerged -even if transitorily- more than half of all metropolitan households below the poverty line. This thesis explores why social inequality within …
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Wildfire Risk Management for Informal Settlements in Chile
… settlement development in Chile, focusing on the municipality of Viña del Mar. This city experienced the deadliest wildfires in the nation’s history in 2024 and holds the nation’s highest concentration of informal settlements. Despite this double vulnerability, the city has inadequately integrated …
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Building blocked : neighborhood politics and administrative efficiency in Philadelphia's zoning relief process
… a large-scale reform of its zoning code and planning documents in 2007. These reforms attempted to reconcile a reduction in the need for zoning relief with the necessity to maintain some form of community input in development as effective as that which had been made possible by the stream of …
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Preserving Beijing's Old City : the vision and reality of historic conservation planning
In 2000, the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission drew up a conservation plan for the 25 historic areas in Beijing's Old City. The main principles for the conservation plan were as follows: 1) To preserve the traditional cityscape and hutongs, 2) To ensure the authenticity of the preserved …
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Institutional mechanisms for water supply to informal settlements in Zambia a grounded theory approach
… the housing units are constructed devoid of any municipal planning andcontrol; are poorly constructed; and, not laid out in a systematic geometric arraywhich is essential for effective provision of modern water reticulationinfrastructure. Other factors include challenges by the service providers …
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Public planning processes for post-industrial places : recommendations for Madison's Oscar Mayer site from Milwaukee and Saint Paul
… of factories across the country has led many municipal planning governments to consider how industrial land can be preserved in order to maintain land dedicated to employment for residents. At the same time, market pressures on individual industrial sites have shown that this same industrial …
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Walking in old age: A year-round perspective on accessibility in the outdoor environment and effects of measures taken
… is to examine the implementation process in municipal planning, and effects of measures taken, to achieve barrier-free outdoor environments the year round. Older peoples’ perceptions as pedestrians in terms of usability, mobility, and perceived safety, as well as municipal employees’ views, …
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Infrastructures for participation : institutional and technical considerations for new forms of participation in urban development
… of, as well as the participation in urban planning through the various information communication technologies (ICTs) encountered in decisions affecting the material context of cities. In two ethnographic studies of information systems in municipal planning, technology-supported citizen …
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Sustainable cities and institutional change : the transformation of urban stormwater management
… the extent to which cities facing very similar municipal pollution problems adopt GSI varies widely. This dissertation seeks to account for the disparate adoption of, and investment in, this innovative, land-based practice through an in-depth investigation of four US cities: Boston, …
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