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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"new urban"”.
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Building the new urban India
This thesis examines the rules and regulations influencing foreign investments in India's real estate sector. Specifically, this thesis discusses the Foreign Direct Investment Policy, The Foreign Exchange Management Act and the Reserve Bank of India's Foreign Exchange Management Regulations. …
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A new urban center in Cambridge
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1964
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New urban housing in Seoul, Korea
… an explosive increase in population and rapid urbanization. This increase has led to a severe housing shortage in Seoul. The government responded to this urgent demand for housing by building western style high-rise and high-density apartments. In this process, the government disregarded Korean …
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Describing Diversity of New Urban Developments in Austin, Texas
… research project describes the diversity of new urban developments in Austin, Texas. The project begins with an overview of the history, causes and negative effects of suburban sprawl. The idea of new urbanism is then presented as the antithesis of suburban sprawl. Additionally, the …
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THE NEW URBAN SOFTSCAPE : URBAN PARK AS WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
… The project investigates the opportunity of an urban park to be integrated with transportation, entertainment, communal, and storm-water management facilities, blending in as part of the urban fabric, performing as a whole. Joining two urban pocket parks in Singapore’s downtown core, a …
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New urban manufacturing neo-industrial design in Louisville, Kentucky
… for cities, which stand to benefit from new investment and increased employment opportunities. However, important questions linger for planners: where will manufacturing jobs materialize within the urban fabric? Are factories even viable within the core cities of industrial regions, where …
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Mining Manhattan : a new urban model for recycling electronic waste
… in downtown Manhattan as the test site for a new ecosystem of material production and consumption. Discarded electronic materials represent the single fastest growing source of municipal waste, which is often illegally exported to developing countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, India, China …
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Urbanism across: new urban ground in Taipei's old city core
This thesis re-imagines Taipei's urban core as a series of above and below urban spaces that weave together disparate neighborhoods around the city's main train station. In the late 20th-century, following the post-war economic boom of Taiwan, the government initiated a huge construction project …
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Race & Mobility in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Migration Control
… Such matters are now also substantially urban. As cities of refuge rely increasingly on tech companies to develop digital urban infrastructures for accessing information, services, and socioeconomic life at large, they are also inviting the border closer to cities and migrant bodies. This …
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The mascot and the refugee : survival strategies for the new urban jungle
… us. Austin, Texas is home to two notable urban wildlife populations. In the early 1980s, one and a half million Mexican Free-tailed Bats moved into a bridge in the center of the city. Though initially greeted with fear and suspicion, they managed to turn their reputation around, thanks to …
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Hybridizing old downtown Suwon City: how new urban fabric may save the past
… economic methods at the local and global scales, new approaches are required for creating alternative urban models which emphasize sustainability and landscape productivity. The Old Downtown of Suwon City, South Korea, which is encompassed by the Hwaseong Fortress and designated by UNESCO as a …
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Long-term prospects of land value uplift in planned new urban centres: Measurement, modelling and predictions
… fast growth frequently desire to plan new urban centres in currently low-demand areas where the potential for radical urban transformation is high, but the prima facie prospects of LVC are poor. Urban planners often recognise that good land value gains could eventually arise in …
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The role of planning in new urban settlements: The case of Nyagatare in post-conflict Rwanda
The study of urban planning in post-conflict settlements is an area of research that has not yet been thoroughly explored. Yet planning occupies a unique position at the interface between communities, the state, and the physical environment, and is strategically located to deal with many common …
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The city design and the new Urban Revolution : conceptualizing catalytic, sustainable development in Mexico's second tier
… Technology (ICT) - in facilitating sustainable urbanism in the developing world? Technological advancements are altering consumer demand and behavior, transforming the products, services, entertainment and information consumed as well processes related to consumption. Technical change is further …
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Assembling the Chinese City: Production of Place and the Articulation of New Urban Spaces in Wuhan, China
Studies of China's urban development largely rely on a handful of metanarratives, appealing for their concision, but failing to account for the spatial specificities of the Chinese city. These narratives are founded on structural capitalist explanations of place-making including neoliberal …
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Civic visions, national politics, and international designs : three proposals for a new urban center in Tehran (1966-1976)
… inaugurated the construction of a ceremonial urban center in northern Tehran. The proposed plan, prepared by Llewelyn-Davies International, consisted of a large plaza and two boulevards lined with governmental and commercial buildings-an extravagant project made possible by the 1973 oil boom …
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Behind "successful" land acquisition : a case study of the Van Quan new urban area project in Hanoi, Vietnam
… economy has sparked Vietnam's unprecedented urbanization and industrialization. In order to accommodate the spiraling land demand triggered by urban and economic growth, the Vietnamese government has been using the mechanism of compulsory acquisition at an astounding scale to convert massive …
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Compaction, scale and proximity: an investigation into the spatial implications of density for the design of new urban housing
… the implications of density for the design of new urban housing. An historical study of the notion of density in architectural and planning practice indicates that density ratios as a design mechanism were born out of a desire to control the physical conglomeration of the built mass of the city …
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