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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"urban spatial patterns"”.
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Urban Growth and Segregation in the Roanoke, Virginia, Metropolis: The Effects of Low-Density Development on Low-Income Populations and Racial Minorities
This dissertation examines urban growth patterns in the Roanoke, Virginia, metropolis. It draws on the literature of contemporary human ecology and social area analysis to examine the effects of low-density development on low-income populations and racial minorities. The continuous spread of …
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Socioeconomic topography : inner city economic development and Geographic Information Systems
… so diversified that planners can not find clear spatial patterns on which to base their decisions. This paper attempts to extract patterns of socioeconomic phenomena relevant to economic development and map them. The advancing technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has made it easier …
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The dynamic interaction of land use and transport in a highly fragmented city: the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… as residential segregation, social exclusion, spatial inefficiencies, inequality, residential informality, marginalisation of the low-income cohort continue to form part of the current planning discourse. While policy acknowledges the need to redress these issues, the urban spatial patterns in …
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The Production of Value: A Study of Urbanism in South Lake Union, Seattle
… to explore how political economy determines urban spatial patterns, but also how those spatial patterns reinforce the dominant political economy. I begin with an examination of the production of value in the built environment. Value is produced through an iterative relationship between fixed …
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Assessing sustainable urban forms in Erbil city of Iraq
… system for the analysis of the sustainable urban form. Subsequently, there is still a noticeable gap regarding the relationship between these dimensions and the patterns and the layout of built environments in the Middle East in general and in Iraq in particular. Intense and rapid economic …