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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"planned city"”.
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Using spatial multi-criteria analysis as an appraisal tool for bus rapid transit trunk and feeder routes: a case study in the City of Tshwane, South Africa
… as a viable appraisal tool for BRT routes. The City of Tshwane formed the study area of the investigation. SMCA is a decision-support tool that combines multi-criteria analysis (MCA) and geographic information systems for evaluating decision problems whose criteria and alternatives have …
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Valletta : the significance of its architectural evolution
Valletta is an incredible and complex city. Its story is vast, and the changes that have occurred since its inception are extensive. The war machine, the 'City of God', a city by the Order of St. John the well planned city fortress, the renaissance city, the baroque city, the mercantile city : …
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Washington, D.C. and the Idea of America: A reappraisal of the 1791 plan for the Nation’s Capital
Washington, D.C. was the first American planned city of its size and one of the first attempts at a spatial organisation of the nation’s political objectives. This thesis argues that Pierre L’Enfant’s 1791 plan for the city is a unique example of eighteenth-century speculative development, that …
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On the Surface of a Thessalian City: The Urban Survey of Kastro Kallithea, Greece
… abandonment of Kastro Kallithea, a Hellenistic city in Achaia Phthiotis, Thessaly, through data collected from the intensive urban survey of the site. Kastro Kallithea is an orthogonal grid planned city with distinct zones of activities enclosed within a massive circuit wall running 2 km in …
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Extension and further validation of a 3D two-phase flow model for flow, transport and mass transfer in sewer systems
… networks are integral infrastructures in a well-planned city. Their vital role lies in efficiently transporting both wastewater to treatment facilities and rainwater from residential areas. The emission of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) combined with the oxygen (O2) present in the system can pose a …
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Regional Socio-Economic Transformation in Brazil
The regional income disparities in Brazil are well-known. Since the 1930s, such income disparities have declined only slightly. This thesis combines traditional economic theory with insights from regional science and economic geography to explain the development pattern in Brazil throughout the …