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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"urban economy"”.
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The Role of The Casual Poor in a Third World Urban Economy: A Case Study of Calcutta, India (Informal Sector)
… sectors is most strikingly illustrated in the urban economy of the Third World where a small, modern sector exists side by side with a much larger non-industrialized sector. The research is based on a field survey of 135 slum households in Calcutta, India. The data provide the basis for a rich …
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Os usos do território pelos agentes dos circuitos da economia urbana para a entrega de alimentos demandados por aplicativos na cidade do Natal-RN
… agents of the market, a fact that transforms the urban economy through the social and territorial capillarization of digital applications. These define the phenomenon of platform capitalism, enabling the services of transporting people and delivering food demanded by applications. Such services …
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Use of geographic information systems and infrared-triggered cameras to assess white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) habitat in Denton County, Texas.
… transformation from an agricultural to an urban economy and lifestyle. Eighteen sites were chosen throughout the county to research the following metrics: geology, soils, landcover, landscape ecology, streams, shorelines, land use, population, roads, structures, and census methods.
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A produção espacial, a partir das relações socioeconômicas no “circuito inferior” da economia urbana, no bairro do grotão, João Pessoa (PB).
… relations from the "Lower Circuit" of the economy in the study area . Sought to understand the process of occupation and the current dynamics of the agents that produce local trade, identifying the types of activities, to then discuss the production of urban space and the socio-spatial …
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Urban complex : between institutions and space
… cities. Growing population density and a booming urban economy in the past decades have created an incentive to re-utilize more lucratively mid- and large-scale, mix-use buildings that occupy prime locations in cities. In these buildings where the current usage exceeds the allowed occupancy and …
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Bairro de Mangabeira: um subcentro urbano na cidade de João Pessoa/PB.
… Neighbourhood as one of the most important urban sub-centers from the city of João Pessoa, PB. In a more precise way, the theme approaches the urban sub-centrality disposition in the tertiary sector of the neighbourhood. More specifically, in the fact of reflecting to the urban economy of …
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The Working Poor : Labour Strategies of Welfare Recipients in Helsinki, 1890–1970
This study discusses urban poverty and precarious work from early industrialization until the era of the welfare state in Finland. The dissertation analyses the labour strategies of individuals in the receipt of poor relief or social assistance allowances in Helsinki between the early 1890s and the …
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Script, Empire, and Business: A Global History of Japanese Script Reform, 1920-1945
… that focused on mass popularity and the urban economy. Third, and most importantly, script reformers conducted campaigns in many parts of the world in response to the changing global economic contexts surrounding the interwar and wartime Japanese empire, especially regarding finance, …
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Fresh Squeezed: The Dilemma of Local Food Production Along Colorado's Front Range Urban Corridor
<p>Today, the Front Range Urban Corridor of Colorado is one example from the urban/agricultural battlefield. The history of food production and urbanization in this area is similar to many regions throughout the western United States. Originally an extraction based economy, Colorado later became …
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O circuito inferior e o meio construído nas pequenas cidades do Seridó Ocidental Paraibano.
… the dynamics of the lower circuit of the economy and changes in the built environment of small towns in the West Seridó of Paraíba in the context of contemporary globalization. This work resulted from some methodological procedures, such as literature, readings and underlined, collecting …
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Re-situating and shifting cultural identity in contemporary Namibia: the experience of rural-urban migrants in Katutura (Windhoek)
… Namibian youth culture, which cuts across rural-urban, ethnic, and socio-economic divides. I argue that young migrants from Ovamboland, who intend to escape their poverty stricken rural homes and arrive on packed busses, bringing with them few possessions and great expectations, constantly shift …
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Agriculture and industry in the process of economic growth and inequality in Senegal, c.1848-1979
… the path of structural change in the Senegalese economy from around the abolition of slavery in French-ruled insular Senegal in 1848 to the time of structural adjustment in 1979. A study of the economics of urban slavery in mid nineteenth-century Senegal uses the structure of slave prices to …
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Female labour, status and marriage in late medieval York and other English towns
… of issues relating to the role of women in the urban economy of later medieval England. Despite the use of York material by way of a case study, an attempt has been made to set this evidence within a wider national and, to a more limited degree, European context. The relationship between women's …
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Amphibian urbanism in Dhaka’s contested wetlands
… planners and policymakers have neglected urban wetlands. In this research, I delve into the complex relationship between urbanization and wetlands under a globally networked climate change governance. Existing scholarship related to urban wetlands either focus on the social vulnerability …
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Migrants and modernisation : a study of change in Lao society
… focusses on the interaction between rural-to-urban migration on the one hand, and 'modernisation' on the other, in the fields of economic, political and social relations in Lao society.The introduction presents the concepts and research methods used and the design of the thesis. It emphasises …
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Neighbourhood Level Master-Planning - ‘A Strategic Value-Based Decision-Making Perspective’
… part of strategies to stimulate changes in local urban economy and property markets in Britain. However, the 2007-08 economic crisis severely disrupted urban development and created uncertainty affecting market conditions and the availability of investment, as well as policy change, and …
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Unjust Profit: Moral Economies of Recycling and Migration in Urban Turkey
… that competing labour regimes in a precarious urban economy—one comprised of citizens, the other of irregular migrants—relate to each other primarily in moral registers. Second, it demonstrates how these moral registers influence economic action in tangible ways. The thesis understands these …
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Labor Markets in Transformation: Case Studies of Latin America
… non-agricultural employment in the rural economy and informal employment in the urban economy. Rural non-agricultural employment (RNAE) is being increasingly emphasized as a potential pathway out of rural poverty for people who are unable to secure their income in agriculture. By paying …
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Sustainable urban agriculture: a sustainable adaptation strategy for the City of Cape Town? : Practices and views on sustainable urban agriculture and climate change in Cape Town
… associated with the benefits of sustainable urban agriculture areas in terms of adaptation to climate change in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area, South Africa. Urbanization and climate change are stressing urban areas in developing countries. Therefore, finding a development path towards …
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An assessment of landlessness and its impact on social and economic development: A case study of the Omaheke in Namibia, 1990 - 2015
… beneficiaries of land reform and other rural and urban households in the seven constituencies. This study adopted the historical and political-economic (HPE) framework because it draws particular attention to politics and economics, understood in terms of contestation and bargaining between …
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