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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"secondary cities"”.
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The convention center in secondary cities
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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The Peri-urban City: Cargo Cult Urbanism, Porosity and an Emerging Urban Citizenship in Vietnamese Secondary Cities
… of a porous peri-urban landscape in Vietnam’s secondary cities. In Chapter 1, peri-urban areas are defined as space of transformation where pattern of rural land use are intertwined with pattern of urban land use to create an urban-rural interface with blurred boundaries. The main …
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Thinking differently about local economic development and governance in secondary cities in South Africa - A conceptual analysis of the possibilities of problem driven iterative adaption (PDIA)
… failures at municipal level, and specifically in secondary cities in South Africa, is deeply influenced by the constitutional imperatives for establishing developmental local government. The local planning, economic development and policy frameworks introduced between 1999 and 2006 were largely …
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Land development approaches in the context of land scarcity : case study, Byblos, Lebanon
… understanding for guiding urban development in secondary cities in Lebanon. An existing site in the Byblos Metropolitan Area is utilized as a reference to this study. The study includes a general description of the context of land development in Lebanon. It identifies phenomena that directly …
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Beyond Rural to Urban: Examining Urbanization and Quality of Life in Hawassa, Ethiopia
This thesis examines the rapidly urbanizing, secondary city of Hawassa, Ethiopia, studying patterns of urban growth to determine how different models of planning for urban development can influence quality of life for urban residents in Ethiopia. To do so, it proposes its own operational definition …
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Private firms and holistic development in second-tier US cities : a case study of repopulating, re-urbanizing Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
America's secondary cities are enjoying a well-documented urban renaissance. New residents and their dollars are reversing decades of disinvestment in the urban cores of conventionally less attractive, mid-sized US metro areas. Rising urban populations are largely due to new residents flocking from …
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Urban design for small town regeneration: A socio-ecological approach
… transformation has typically been in either cities, or villages; i.e. urban or rural. However, Arndt, Davies and Thurlow (2018) suggest that a 3rd way would be to invest in secondary cities and small towns. Small towns are embedded in the cultural landscape, and sit at the intersection of …
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Understanding the Complex Dynamics of Regenerating Urban Vacancy: A Case Study of Songkhla, Thailand
… national-level policies aimed at revitalizing secondary cities across Thailand.
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New urbanism on a grand scale : the challenges for large-scale, multi-phase master planned developments
… firms are undertaking the construction of secondary cities and urban nodes with housing units numbered in the tens of thousands and areas measured in hundreds of acres. These "city-scale" developments carry risks and uncertainties that eclipse the rather controllable and largely foreseeable …
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Urban planning practice under neo-customary land tenure
… of neo-customary land delivery practices in the secondary towns of Tamale and Techiman, to interrogate the prevailing view that hybrid land governance systems can promote equitable land delivery. The findings of the thesis revealed that local planning and land delivery in Ghana are not undertaken …
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The role of planning in new urban settlements: The case of Nyagatare in post-conflict Rwanda
… and this year was designated as one of six secondary cities selected for focused investment and further population growth: this post-conflict rise from village to secondary city in less than two decades is unprecedented in Rwanda. Field research was conducted and qualitative data collected …
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Identification and Explanation of Regional Development Poles in Haiti
… used policies for slowing the growth of primate cities by focusing on development poles. In Haiti, the potential growth poles are the regional capitals that have a constitutional mandate to promote and manage the development of their region. I have tested some of the assumptions of dependency and …