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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"urban quality"”.
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Park Availability and Expenditure Effects on Crime, Poverty, Wealth and Obesity Indicators
Urban parks play an important role in cities. Lack of understanding about their effects on urban dwellers and their capacity to play a role in promoting social well-being could diminish their benefits. With population growth in cities, park managers may need to increase the quantity and quality or …
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Développement des indicateurs de la qualité de vie urbaine à l'aide de la télédétection à très haute résolution spatiale cas de la ville de Hanoi
In studies of urban quality of life, the information that can be extracted from satellite images is limited by image resolution and by the standard method of pixel classification. Recently, very high spatial resolution (VHSR) satellite images have allowed the development of new remote sensing …
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THE QUALITY OF PUBLIC OPEN SPACES IN THE CITY CENTRE OF ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT
The pace of urban growth and the change in economic, political and social conditions in the Third World are giving rise to great pressure for change in city centres and affecting the quality of their public open spaces. However, little attention has been paid to the specific characteristics and …
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Living Together: A Capability Approach to Spatially Segregated Areas of Bogota
The rapid and ongoing process of urbanisation in Bogota has brought about significant socio-spatial segregation between city-dwellers. Such segregation is becoming increasingly complex as patterns of fragmentation are evolving towards a more ‘cellular’ differentiation between rich and poor –urban …
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A people-oriented port city : urban rejuvenation: Port Louis
This urban design thesis is a study of the urban issues and design principles pertinent to Port Cities. 'Man meets water': Our primordial psyche Man has had a relationship with water since time immemorial. Moving freely from earth to water is an activity which comes naturally to the human being. …
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A study of image: Maillardville British Columbia
… is the result of my curiosity about what makes urban places special and memorable. I believe that if the various physical components distinguishing urban places are identified and analyzed, we can develop principles and policies to preserve and enhance them. I chose Maillardville as the study …
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East City Precinct Design Code: Redevelopment through form-based codes
This thesis confines itself to a consideration of urban development opportunity in the East City Precinct through the understanding of it former historical character and memory which can be implemented through Form Based Codes. It locates the design process in the sub-regional context and puts …
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Density and design: the impact of urban densification on design qualities in residential neighbourhoods
This study is focused on the concept of urban intensification, investigating the costs and benefits of higher density urban development. It attempts to define the exact physical patterns and spatial characteristic of the density of residential urban areas in order to establish the extent to which …
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It is not about the car
… fundamental challenge to the future of Boston's urban quality. Taking up the wide 'chasm' opened by the i-90 as its site, this thesis proposes to reconnect a fractured city and assuage the surrounding form the congestion of the car. Spanning the freeway, to open new land in the city, it will …
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Farmland Conservation Easement Valuation Using an Attribute-based Choice Survey: Comparing Preferences within the United States, Georgia, Ohio and Maine
… hay, vegetable, pasture, forest), location (near urban), quality (prime), size (varied acreage relative to geographic area sampled), and cost (varied costs from $3 to $50) components. Selection bias was tested for in order to confirm that the respondents are an unbiased representation of the …
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Stormwater management and multipurpose infrastructure networks
In urban planning and design, natural systems are a key element of explorations about how to design for sustainability. As part of these efforts, academics and practitioners have also begun to explore the ways in which the utilization of natural systems can and should change our approach to the …
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Spatial dimensions of high-speed rail : intermediate cities, inter-jurisdictional planning, and the implications for high-speed rail in Portugal
… At the same time, greater attention is paid to urban quality, as non-vehicular modes and compact forms of development become critical in an environmentally conscious world. Within this context, increasing interest and adoption of high-speed rail (HSR)-- mode with spatial sustainability …
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Using images to present stated preference information: an application to the built environment.
… was selected as the context for the thesis, as urban public space is an important factor in urban quality of life and the ‘liveability’ of European cities. Choice experiments and contingent rating are the stated preference techniques used to determine trade-offs between attributes. The choice …
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The production of marginality. Paradoxes of urban planning and housing policies in Cali, Colombia
… wide gamut of policies during the last 70 years, urban marginality persists in most Latin American cities. Although this condition has been strongly associated with informal settlements, the premise underpinning this research is that marginality can be produced by the state through the …
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Continuous synthesis of metallic and oxidic palladium nanoparticles with tunable sizes for catalytic applications
… due to its negative effects on human health, urban quality of life and the environment and is part of the UN Sustainability Goals. Catalytic converters have changed the course of the transport industry in efforts to significantly reduce emissions in vehicles. More specifically, three-way …
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Estudo de impacto de vizinhança: um instrumento para a melhoria da qualidade de vida na zona sul da cidade de João Pessoa – PB.
… population focuses, in its majority, in the urban areas, as indicates DSNI (Demographic Studies National Institute), that around 3,3 billion of people, that is 51% of the world population lives in the urban areas. In all the world, especially in the so called developing countries, since it is …