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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"planning policy"”.
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Quality of Life - Impacts from the Family Planning Policy in China
… uses changes in local regulations of family planning policy over time and space as a source of exogenous variation in family size to assist in identifying the causal effect of family size on the selected outcomes. Panel analysis is also applied to deal with the unobservable factors at …
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Planning policy and landscape architecture : street design in theory and practice
Recent trends in planning and landscape architecture are moving the two disciplines closer together, yet there persists a lack of awareness of each discipline to the other. Planning’s roots in street design and landscape architecture’s new theory of landscape urbanism, which focuses on …
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The Environmental Justice Implications of the Planning Policy and Practice of Flood Risk Management in New Zealand
… of power, representation and participation in planning for flood risk management are examined to consider the injustices that are experienced by communities ‘living with risk’. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to investigate the extent planning is complicit in delivering flood risk …
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Environmental impact analysis of sea level rise on groundwater resources and coastal land use planning policy in Massachusetts
… of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Place-based ageing and social interaction in a Belfast neighbourhood
… the argument made that current local spatial planning policy is abstract in its reference to the social wellbeing of older adults. Drawing on a case study located in a south Belfast neighbourhood disaggregated by socio-economic and deprivation characteristics, the thesis investigates …
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An investigation into the effectiveness of the Namibian Defence Force successful planning: A case study of the defence headquarters, Windhoek
… of the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) succession planning using the case study of the Defence Headquarters in Windhoek. It is worth mentioning that the NDF was established by unifying and integrating two opposing forces of the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) and the South West Africa …
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Towards an epidemiology of gentrification : modeling urban change as a probabilistic process using k-means clustering and Markov models
… to anticipate the effects of gentrification with planning policy, and for developers to foresee investment outcomes. Current planning policy addresses the symptoms of gentrification, without defining the underlying construct of the process. This thesis examines latent constructs of gentrification …
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Local Amenity Societies - Participation and Power: A case study on the St Marylebone Society 1948 - 2021
… 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 London. It describes how they …
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The Interwar Suburbs of North West London: Planning for regeneration
Recent UK planning policy has concentrated on regenerating inner cities. For the past thirty years, the interwar suburbs of North West London have seen a changing population, rising levels of deprivation and a deteriorating built environment. Exploring these changes and the role of local centres as …
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At the margins of ordered freedom : the problem of the sidewalk as public space in New York
This thesis is a study of the historical planning discourse concerning New York City's sidewalks. It focuses on the forces within the city that have shaped the sidewalk and attitudes towards it, and the translation of theory and ideals regarding this key public space into planning policy. The …
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Boston's back streets : planning a city program to preserve and enhance Boston's industrial health
… to an integrated economic development and planning policy for Boston.
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Dual Occupancy and its Impact on Metropolitan Growth in Melbourne (1986 - 1992)
… of Housing in the late 1970s as a housing policy. In the 1980s it became a planning issue and was then developed as a key plank of metropolitan planning policy by the (then) Ministry for Planning and Environment, resulting in specific controls being introduced into metropolitan planning …
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Third Places as Alternative Spaces of Cultural Production and Consumption in the Neoliberal Creative City
… of neoliberal creative city and cultural planning policy scripts in many cities of the global North, alternative sites of grassroots cultural production and consumption are often overshadowed in size, policy attention, municipal investment, and print media coverage by spectacular cultural …
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Survey of Bicycle Trail-Users in New Orleans: Characteristics, Attitudes and Implications for Planning
… and perceptions of bicyclists will help inform planning, policy, and design related to bicycle infrastructure. This thesis uses a review of the relevant literature, intercept surveys of bicyclists, and automatic bicycle counts to understand how user characteristics can influence successful …
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Consumer behavior and commercial linkages in a waterfront development and the adjacent downtown establishments: Baltimore's Inner Harbor
… findings are discussed within the framework of planning policy.
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Problems in Longterm Forecasting and Planning: with reference to transport and energy
… forecasting in its context as a component of the planning process and have related the problems of forecasting to the ensuing problems in planning. The main areas I have covered are Transport and Energy, in a UK context.However I have touched on other fields and I expect the conclusions I have …
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Geospatial Sharing as an Effective Governance Tool for Policy Decision: Comparative Analysis and Implication to Saudi Arabia
… and government agencies. The efficiency of planning and decision-making processes in many government activities are based on the availability of geospatial data. This data need to be easily and quickly accessed and analyzed to support a wide variety of decisions related to social, economic, …
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The adaptation and demolition of existing buildings on masterplan sites
… the fact that heritage has been included within planning policy for many years, while embodied impacts are only just starting to be included. The three case studies uncovered factors that govern decisions on large urban developments. People involved in, or affected by, masterplan developments …
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The Post-Communist Urban Landscape of Bucharest, Romania
… However, without efficient, centralized urban planning framework, the effects of post-communist economic liberalism and privatization have contributed to the creation of a chaotic and inefficient built urban landscape. This study traces the geographical dynamics of post-communist urban …
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Dominion Geometries : Colonial construction and Postcolonial persistence of the Imperial in the New Delhi Plan
… New Delhi plan translated British India's home policy in sandstone. The government's administrative hierarchy and centralization of power was directly represented in the physical plan that impressed its magnificence and power over a country awakening to freedom. A realized grand vision imperial …
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