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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"urban change"”.
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Re -Imagining Istanbul: Globalization and Urban Change
… which an emerging global system of production, exchange, finance, telecommunications, culture, and politics is socially and spatially articulated. They have also documented how global forces shape the urban processes and politics in these cities. This dissertation contributes to this existing …
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Shifting Spaces: Housing and Urban Change in Kabul
… experts, it analyzes how Shahraks have reshaped urban development in a rapidly growing city. Inspired by Soviet-era Mikrorayons, Shahraks introduced formal infrastructure, legal recognition, modern amenities, and opportunities for new economic activity. They helped expand Kabul’s formal housing …
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Assessing annual urban change and its impacts on evapotranspiration
Land Use Land Cover Change (LULCC) is a major component of global environmental change, which could result in huge impacts on biodiversity, water yield and quality, climate, soil condition, food security and human welfare. Of all the LULCC types, urbanization is considered to be the most impactful …
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Transnational Impact on Urban Change. Modern Projects in Vinh, Vietnam
Following an “agency-oriented Urban Theory” as advanced by Smith (2001), this study takes the urban landscape of Vinh City in Central Vietnam as a starting point into an investigation of multiple visions of modernity (Eisenstadt, 2000) put forward by social actors, as well as into urban change …
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Transportation planning for mega events : a model of urban change
… opportunities for revolutionary developments in urban transport. Often, we think of transport and urban development as an evolutionary process, yet there exist a few opportunities for cities to revolutionize their transport system within a short timeframe of only 10 years. Prime examples for such …
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Technology impacts on future urban change in Egypt : Implications for developing countries.
… in transportation, have introduced significant changes to city structures and urban systems in both the developed and developing countries. Technology advancements of the Post-Industrial era, especially in telecommunications, are expected to introduce a new substantial wave of urban change. This …
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Visualising Creative Destruction: A Photographic Study of Urban Change in Salford, UK
… formulate, and visualise the wide-scale urban change currently taking place across parts of the City. Situating Salford’s real estate revolution within Joseph Schumpeter’s concept of ‘creative destruction’, the research navigates the contemporary urban landscape where the production of …
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Urban Change, Sexual Politics and Women’s Activism in Spain, 1958 to 1982
… resources, reproductive justice and legislative change in Spain. These collectives helped transform the social, political and urban landscape and the self-perceptions of those involved. Yet they have been largely ignored both by mainstream accounts of twentieth century Spain and by histories of …
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Staging the Post-conflict City: Tourism, Urban Change, and Symbolic Contestation in Belfast, Northern Ireland
… of tourism development, place marketing, and urban staging in cultural identity politics and conflict transformation in post-Agreement Belfast, the center of Northern Ireland’s tourism industry. The primary argument is that these image-led regeneration strategies physically and discursively …
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Implementation of Physical Education in Primary Schools in Mumuni Zone of Lusaka Urban Change Catalog Display
… services for married couples in Kabwe Urban; the factors that contributed to the rising incidences of divorce; the views which couples and service providers held on traditional and modern counselling services
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Implementation of Physical Education in Primary Schools in Mumuni Zone of Lusaka Urban Change Catalog Display
… services for married couples in Kabwe Urban; the factors that contributed to the rising incidences of divorce; the views which couples and service providers held on traditional and modern counselling services
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Refining Behavioural Theories and Rules in Agent-Based Models to Enhance Dynamic Simulation of Urban Change
With the continuing growth of the urban population, many cities in the world are faced with challenges such as traffic congestion and misallocation of housing and infrastructure. Understanding and predicting the spatial pattern of urban change is useful for planners to deliver evidence-based and …
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Recycling the City: The Impact of Urban Change on the Informal Waste-Recovery Trade in Hanoi, Vietnam
… explores how broader (and often unchallenged) changes to political economy at multiple geographic and economic scales impact long-standing ‘informal’ practices of waste recovery and recycling in Hanoi, Vietnam. This research is based on a survey of 575 informal waste collectors and 264 waste …
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Predicting Gentrification Patterns in London: A Machine Learning Approach to Analysing Deprivation and Urban Change Across Neighbourhoods
… of neighbourhoods experience no significant change, while 20.33% are forecasted to gentrify and 13.14% are projected to undergo a relative increase in deprivation. The features found to highly influence all models were unemployment, tenure, education, and income levels.
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Navigating Climate and Urban Change: Development Patterns, Conflicts, and Equity in a Sub-Arctic and Post-Socialist City
As climate change impacts on settlements escalate, cities strive to adapt and enhance resilience. However, as another form of urban restructuring, climate adaptation and resilience projects have inadequately addressed vulnerability and the risk of reproducing inequitable outcomes. Simultaneously, …
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Towards an epidemiology of gentrification : modeling urban change as a probabilistic process using k-means clustering and Markov models
… oppression and racism, and an empirical force of change based on social, environmental and economic interactions. This complexity makes it challenging for researchers to study the impact of gentrification, for planners to anticipate the effects of gentrification with planning policy, and for …
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Urban change agents: citizen-based projects in Cape Town as drivers of transformative pathways towards a climate-friendly, socially just, economically viable and ressource-efficient urban future
… highlights their potential to drive innovative urban development processes towards a spatially just, economically viable, climate-friendly and resource-efficient urban future. The city of Cape Town serves as a case study to describe the transition arena and transition management system of civil …
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