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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"urban transition"”.
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Between external and internal space : an urban transition
… explore the evolution of both architecture and urban space, in terms of mutual relationship between solids and voids, with particular attention to two transitional moments of ancient and modern history: the Hellenistic and Baroque periods. This study is the result of the consideration that in …
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Heritage discontinued: tracing cultural ecologies within a context of urban transition
… role-players within the domain of culture and urban development. Despite its significant achievements, it however comes with a specific heritage conceptualisation, which is disconnected from local reality and perpetuates a problematic theoretical construct of cultural legacy, which is steeped …
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Resource use in the Chinese building sector : foundations for analyzing urban transition
… developing countries undergoing socio-economic transition. This will dramatically change the way that society consumes resources, in terms of both materials and energy. We will need to better understand how resource use changes as development happens in order to focus efforts to reduce that …
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Recycling the City: The Impact of Urban Change on the Informal Waste-Recovery Trade in Hanoi, Vietnam
… in waste-recovery literature. Paper II examines urbanization processes in contemporary Vietnam and how these changing spaces accommodate labour, and in turn support livelihoods. I argue that Vietnam’s globalizing economy and urban transition have been a catalyst for the growth of the informal …
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Food system governance for urban sustainability in the global South
… locus of these experiences. Food insecurity in urban areas, particularly in developing countries, is a persistent yet poorly understood phenomenon. Responses to food security have primarily focused on ensuring food availability, resulting in responses that are predominantly …
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Economic impact of cardiovascular disease on the South African economy, 1991
… Africa is currently experiencing a rapid rate of urbanisation and redistribution of income (and wealth). The rural-urban-transition is accompanied by the adoption of western lifestyles. Consequently, the incidence of CVD is expected to increase markedly. Tightening fiscal constraints have led to …
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The development and use of a land–use suitability model in spatial planning in South Africa
… 4.9 billion people) will be living in urban settlements by the year 2030. It is further anticipated that most of this urbanization will take place in developing countries, and more specifically in Africa. This is most likely due to the fact that most African countries are currently in …
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Impact of the Arab conquest on late Roman settlement in Egypt
… the flawed nature of our understanding of the urban archaeological record for this important period. The thesis concludes with a suggested paradigm of urban transition, which will allow greater understanding of the changes in settlement in Roman and Islamic Egypt.
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On the Move: Storying the Authentic Leadership Development of Millennial Gay Men
… and Narrative Inquiry to explore the rural-urban transition experiences of three high-achieving millennial gay men. Using Clandinin’s (2013) narrative commonplaces of temporality, sociality, and place as frames for understanding each participant’s individual story, the study utilized The …
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Transition stories : politics of urban living space in Tirana city region, Albania
This thesis contributes to the geography of urban transition and to the expansion of knowledge of the post socialist city. Although many cities in transitional countries have inherited similar forms of housing and infrastructure provision and urban development from communist regime, there are …
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The importance of the ‘urban’ in agricultural-to-urban water transfers: Insights from comparative research in India and China
… water demands is made more complex by the urban transition occurring in many of the world’s river basins. As rising populations and economic development lead to the overexploitation of available water supplies, the largest water-using sector, agriculture, becomes the source of water for …
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Discovery in flux: informing design for experience of exploratory walking in changing urban landscapes
… have been undergoing rapid spatial and social transition (United Nations 2014). Increasingly complex urban environments have been posing challenges to wayfinding — a process of negotiating and moving around unknown quarters (Lynch 1960). Wayshowing — an information design discipline (Per …
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Food deserts and household food insecurity in the informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia
Rapid urbanization and rising urban poverty characterize much of Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century. Africa's urban transition provides the context within which this thesis examines the causes and consequences of poverty and food insecurity in the growing informal settlements of Windhoek, …
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Developing a Framework for Urban DNA Analysis
… evolve the way they do? Is there an underlying urban DNA essence shaping their uniqueness? This research started with these fundamental questions and introduces the concept of urban DNA to explore them—not as just a metaphor but as a grounded framework that explains how cities evolve based on …
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REINTERPRETING URBAN TRANSITIONS Spatial conditions, actors and implications in energy renovation of public housing neighbourhoods. Insights from Italy and France
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