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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"urban infrastructure"”.
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An exploratory study of project financing urban infrastructure
… to explore the use of project finance to fund urban infrastructure in order to aid the development of affordable housing. This is due to the high rate of urbanisation in developing nations, leading to the challenge of providing adequate shelter and the requisite infrastructure. Although South …
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Urban infrastructure : the role of long-term municipal borrowing
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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A Hyperloop Station: Exploring the Potential of Urban Infrastructure
… of an understanding for the relationship between urban infrastructure and architectural form. The means of movement within any city is a critical element for defining many of its social, economical, and physical characteristics. Mass transit is vital to not only the functioning of a city, but also …
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Seismic Loss Assessment and Mitigation of Critical Urban Infrastructure Systems
… seismic performance of complex critical urban infrastructures and optimizing seismic retrofit of infrastructure systems based on system-level performance under the constraint of finite resources. First, postearthquake system performance of interdependent or independent infrastructure …
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Lessons from the underground : the pedagogic possibility of urban infrastructure
… River to Charlestown-is to conceal the enormous infrastructure change as much as possible. The artificiality of a city is easily forgotten-in part because it is tremendously complex to consider how a city is formed. Repeated visits to the same places yield distinct impressions. An enriched …
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Urban infrastructure growth in developing countries; case study: Bogota, Colombia.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1974. M.Arch.A.S.
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Architecture of the rail : exploring the potential of urban infrastructure
… of a sensitivity for the relationship between urban infrastructure and architectural form, an attempt to restore a quality of "publicness" in the urban landscape through the implementation of a transit structure. It is the investigation of the physical qualities which could potentially …
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Mapping Urban Infrastructure: Temporal Metropolitan Geographies of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations
Across the United States, planning for human services relies largely upon public-private partnerships with nonprofit organizations as the result of decades of federal retrenchment. The locational patterns of nonprofit human services organizations (NHSOs) have been studied in the nonprofit …
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Wasteways : regimes and resistance on the path to sustainable urban infrastructure
… context, and could be expanded to include other urban systems-draws attention to the institutional changes that support infrastructural change. Recycling alone may not be sufficient to achieve sustainable materials practice, but the underlying institutional evolution in Seattle suggests that …
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Municipal Bonds for Financing India's Urban Infrastructure: The Case of Indore
To address the challenges arising from growing urbanization, local governments in India need to allocate significant funds to facilitate the development of urban infrastructure in the coming decades. The financial constraints experienced by governments at various levels, especially at the local …
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Analysis and operations in complex networked systems: From urban infrastructure to epidemics
… networked systems, with two main focuses: i) infrastructure cascading failures in urban interdependent infrastructure networks, and ii) infectious disease propagation dynamics and control in population contact networks. Under each topic, one or several studies are performed with different …
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The edge of the bridge : redesign the space adjacent to urban infrastructure
In large urban community, infrastructures play a vital role in the daily life of the city. The contemporary development of these systems can be seen as an overlay of several networks which form the infrastructure of the city. Such developments often enhance the discontinuity and fragmentation of …
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Application of high resolution remote sensing and GIS techniques for evaluating urban infrastructure
… use information about a city's vegetation, urban morphology, and land-use to make decisions. The availability of high-resolution imagery is now expanding the type of information that can be used for planning as well as for understanding urbanization dynamics. This research uses very high …
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The Operationalization of Capacity Development: the Case of Urban Infrastructure Projects in India
… of a symbolic gesture. The application of CD to urban infrastructure projects in India is one such example. Recognizing the shortage of urban infrastructure as one of the major impediments in India's economic growth and rapid urbanization, the Government of India (GOI) launched the Jawaharlal …
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Urban sustainability and equity: Examining urban infrastructure and green space distribution in Tirana, Albania
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Public finance mechanisms for urban infrastructure: A case study of the MyCiTi BRT, Cape Town
… tight budgets and shifts in the global economy, urban infrastructure has become a critical investment municipalities are struggling to fund. Innovative land-based financing tools have emerged as a means of funding critical urban infrastructure. At times, land-based financing tools enable local …
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Sustainable urban infrastructure : the prospects and relevance for middle-income cities of the global South
… knowledge of and policy discourse on sustainable urban infrastructure, as a potential solution to the myriad of ecological and socioeconomic developmental challenges, for middle-income contexts of the global south. To understand this under-studied theme better, this dissertation uses three …
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Park and chill : redesign parking garage in Hong Kong
What are the aesthetics of urban infrastructure? Urban infrastructure has remained isolated to human activities. We all share memory and experience with urban infrastructure, e.g. we drive on the same roads and park our cars in the same parking garage every day. Urban infrastructure are not …
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The junction: transcending sociotechnical divides through youth space
Infrastructure continues to perpetuate the effects of splintering urbanism in South African cities. Where apartheid planning policies such as the group areas act used infrastructure as a mechanism of social organisation, this design dissertation proposes using architecture as social infrastructure …
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Opportunistic infrastructure : the Trans-Manhattan Expressway
Urban Infrastructure: bridges, expressways, and on and off ramps often create barriers and uninhabitable spaces within the urban context. This phenomenon is evident in northern Manhattan where the Trans-Manhattan Expressway has imposed profound divisions within the dense urban community of …
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