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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"urban centers"”.
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The case for micro-apartment housing in growing urban centers
… will address how the unmet housing need of urban single-person households can be rectified by the introduction of micro-apartments. The existing housing stock has been built largely based on the needs of a historically stable demand for family housing. By 2025, the number of single …
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The Need for Highly qualified Taechers Committed to Servign Students in Urban Centers
<p>The enrollments in urban metropolitan schools across the nation have been characterized by students who are at risk. In the past, researchers have attributed the urban American family deterioration to the problem of male employment and welfare. Many urban schools are considered inferior, …
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The impact of urban centers on American goldfinches (Spinus tristis) overwintering at high latitudes
… can be extreme. To understand the role of urban development in facilitating use of a harsh climate, I conducted winter point count surveys (n = 297) at urban and rural sites across latitudes in Michigan. The following winter I trapped individuals in urban and rural settings to sample …
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Spatial efficiency of urban centers as a basis for regional development : a case study of South Sumatra.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Life on the streets: rebuilding community in America's cities
A study of the current urban condition in America with a focus on the lack of permanent residents and community mindedness in our urban centers. The sources of urban blight are discussed along with some possible cures or solutions. A proposal for change is submitted for urban centers in general and …
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Safety During a Disaster: A Comparison of Disaster Events
… themes of unsafe situations during hurricanes in urban centers, finding these themes and making suggestions to be used in the future to attempt to prevent future re-occurrences. By reviewing historical hurricanes in urban centers, responses to these events that have been seen as unsuccessful or …
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An Analysis of the Impact of Racial Transition on the Desirability of Neighborhoods.
… also are plagued by overwhelming problems. Every urban problem evolves out of a historical context.In order to understand the impact of racial transition on a southern city, we must be familiar with how southern cities developed historically and how the racial patterns which caused major urban …
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Effects of the Washington State Growth Management Act on housing development in the greater Seattle area
… on development at portions of the region's urban/rural fringe, close attention is paid to the probable effects of constricting the region's supply of developable land, and to identification of development costs associated with denser housing typologies. Because the GMA envisions a network of …
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Constructing Urban Experience: American Realism, the Periodical Press, and the Late-Nineteenth-Century Cityscape
Much realist fiction employing these emblematic urban spaces appeared serially in magazines alongside articles about developing American urban centers. By bringing together both the physical and publication contexts of realist fiction, this study offers a new reading of realism as embedded in …
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Trade and Transport in Late Roman Syria
… olive monoculture to mass export olive oil to urban centers. Later excavations discovered widespread cultivation of grains, fruit, and beans which directly contradicted Tchalenko’s assertion of sole reliance on oleoculture. However, innumerable olive presses in and around the Dead Cities still …
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Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South
… or somehow unique enclave communities. The early urban centers of African American life in the South that followed the abolition of slavery and disintegration of plantation life have seldom been investigated with respect to the development of AAE. This study examines precisely those sites looking …
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Merge : the hybridization of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape
… revitalization, and densification of many urban centers in the United States often involve the intensification of the diverse components of the city. As city centers continue to grow and continue to experience a sustained revitalization, more demand on housing, entertainment, retail, green …
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Civilian applications and policy implications of commercial unmanned aerial vehicles
… potential to fulfill a number of roles within urban centers, transforming the way civil safety institutions carry out their jobs. A lack of established flight regulations is currently the greatest barrier to the standardized use of these vehicles. While the United States is currently the …
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Expanding Hope in Payatas
… for millions around the world, especially within urban centers. The challenge is to provide a better quality of life, both physically and socially. This thesis provides a critical look into the conditions, limitations, strengths, and hopes of the community of <em><strong>Payatas</strong></em> in …
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Dense urbanism at the old edge: conflict and reconciliation of streets and buildings
In the last few decades, new centers have emerged at the edges of traditional cities and pre-World War II suburbs. As these evolve, do they converge towards the urban forms of traditional cities? This question is explored based on a study of urban areas in the Atlanta Metropolitan Region. Atlanta …
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Tradition, quality, housing, development : a new paradigm for urban Bhutan
This research examines practices that achieve an urban fabric unique to its cultural heritage by promoting innovation in local building industries while embracing notions of urban livability. Prevailing urban livability theorists argue that built form is a physical manifestation of the expression …
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A Study of Thirty Sub-Standard Homes in South Omaha
In the urban centers where the social scale is founded, not upon any particular norm, but upon mere expediency and the necessarily limited economics, the results of the various standards of living reflect themselves in social life in various ways. Most particularly in cities do we see the …
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On the Evaluation of a State Power aimed at Preventing Urban Sprawl in Peri-Urban Areas of Chilean Cities. A Justification from Property Law
In recent years, Chilean cities have experienced urban sprawl driven mainly by numerous residential projects located in rural areas close to the urban limits. This paper aims to evaluate one of the state powers that Chilean law offers to address this phenomenon. Since the exercise of such power …
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A Community In Motion: A Multimodal Transit and Waterfront Activity Center at the University of Washington
… systems form with surrounding communities. As urban centers continue to grow, they are increasingly looking to new or expanding systems of mass transit in order to cut down on congestion in crowded urban streets. These systems are integral to moving a city’s population on a daily basis, but are …
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