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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"town planning"”.
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Minoan Town Planning
Prehistoric Town Planning in Crete" was published in 1950 by Richard Hutchinson. He determined there was no evidence of town planning on Minoan Crete except for two instances. Hutchinson's approach compared the layout of the few excavated Minoan towns to other contemporary sites, such as Kahun, …
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The scope and purpose of town planning in Britain : The experience of the second town planning act, 1919 to 1933
… a greater understanding of modern British Town Planning by examining, in depth, its operation during the 1920s and early 1930s, i. e. the period of the Second Town Planning Act. Two main themes are explored; the ideology of town planning and, the practical achievements of the activity. …
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Sense-of-place ideals in small town planning
… of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Return to traditional town planning : a critical assessment
… of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Increasing public participation in British new town planning.
… of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1972. M.C.P.
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The persistence of the village in British town planning
… of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Town Planning, Architectural Conservation, and Civic Identity in Portsmouth, 1939-1974
… form the core of the dissertation: post-war planning and reconstruction, the emergence of architectural conservationism in the mid-twentieth century, and the concept of civic identity. During the 1940s, Portsmouth’s Local Authority saw radical scientific town planning as a means of physically …
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The role of town planning and other legislation in the transport planning process
… and Local Government activity, transportation planning is carried out against a background of legislation. Without this the limits of the work would not be defined, nor would the manner in which the conclusions and proposals may be implemented be positively known. One cannot simply deal with …
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The Gateway of tomorrow: modernist town planning on Cape Town's Foreshore 1930-70
Cape Town's Foreshore has been a site of contestation for much of the twentieth century. Conventional accounts of its history describe the sudden reclamation of land in 1937, and subsequent planning throughout the 1940s and 50s. However, these accounts do not take into account the complex nature of …
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A better way to grow? : land readjustment through town planning schemes in Ahmedabad
The Town Planning Scheme mechanism for the expansion of the city of Ahmedabad, India, has attracted widespread interest in recent years. It is seen as a participatory and equitable means of acquiring land from rural landowners on the urban fringe. A form of land readjustment, it allows local …
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Living with the past : preservation and development in Japanese architecture and town planning
… followed by a local historical analysis of the town of Tsumago in Nagano Prefecture. It is proposed that a nativist and modernist construction of the common Japanese house has had a special place in the history of the modern movement in Japan which influenced the conceptualization, study and …
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Development of a planning process model for implementation of neotraditional town planning principles in existing communities
… of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Race, housing and town planning in Cape Town, c.1920-1940 : with special reference to District Six
This thesis traces the Cape Town Council's housing policy from 1920 to 1940 in relation to those citizens (in this instance members of the Coloured community) who could not afford to home themselves. The onus to provide such housing in urban areas rested upon the local authority in terms of the …
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Planning for the arts - an urban renaissance? A critique of arts policy and town planning and their relationship
… examines the development of arts policy and town planning in the United Kingdom and investigates their relationship in the provision of arts and cultural amenity in urban contexts. The historic evolution of arts planning is taken through the pre and post-Welfare State periods, concentrating …
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Reconsidering the Western town planning approach for Historic Cities and Memories in Mediterranean Region: The Agence Prost from Paris to İstanbul (1910s-1950s)
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Patrick Geddes: Synthetic Vision
Among the founders of the science of town planning at the beginning of the twentieth century, Scotsman Patrick Geddes introduced methods of investigation commensurate with other sciences. A biologist, trained by Thomas Huxley, Geddes borrowed the practices of the microscopical laboratory in …
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Investigating Town Design and Social Organization at Port Tobacco, Maryland, Through the Use of Archaeology and Geophysics
<p>This thesis examines the connection between town planning and social organization at the small town site of Port Tobacco in south-central Charles County, Maryland from the beginning of the 18th century through to the end of the 19th century. By employing a methodology of both geophysical …
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The valuation of beaches as urban open space
… and intrinsic values have been ignored. In Cape Town planning guidelines now set store on the value of open space, however the fear is that there may be insufficient emphasis on the beach as an urban edge and an open space element. While ecosystem service can and have been calculated intrinsic …
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Of squatters and schemes : considering city-level strategies for housing the poor in India
… at the city-level and the Development Plan-Town Planning Scheme mechanism, an enabling approach similar to land readjustment that seeks to deliver serviced land to the urban land market and contains a provision to reserve some of this land for housing for economically weaker sections of …
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Salt River multi modal transport interchange
… to our historical and politically charged urban planning practices. Our cities are characterised by modernist town planning principles which have fragmented communities through spatial barriers such as highways, train lines and fences while current development perpetuates urban sprawl. Due to …
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