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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"urban-rural interface"”.
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Conservation on the edge : landscape scale conservation at Colorado's urban-rural interface
… are being undertaken in Colorado at the urban- rural interface. However, significant challenges remain and the cases examined in this thesis reveal limitations of landscape scale conservation and affirm ongoing efforts to address these limitations, and point to complimentary policies - …
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Conceptualising a 'living urban edge' for the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), Cape Town
… commitment to protecting the PHA through an urban edge, the farmlands are being constantly eroded by urban development encroachment, pressures and externalities. This dissertation will investigate why this is the case through critically interrogating Cape Town's implementation of the urban …
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Conceptualising a 'living urban edge' for the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), Cape Town
… commitment to protecting the PHA through an urban edge, the farmlands are being constantly eroded by urban development encroachment, pressures and externalities. This dissertation will investigate why this is the case through critically interrogating Cape Town's implementation of the urban …
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The Peri-urban City: Cargo Cult Urbanism, Porosity and an Emerging Urban Citizenship in Vietnamese Secondary Cities
The impact of urban development on local residents in the urban periphery oscillates between processes of empowerment and processes of marginalization as well as between state-controlled order and decentralized self-organization. Consequently local authorities, including urban planners and local …
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Growth effects of urban-rural and intra-regional linkages on counties and communities in the U.S.
… investigates the population growth effects of urban-rural and intra-regional linkages in the United States. This dissertation follows the three paper format. The first paper (Chapter 2) investigates the construct reliability of a nodality-based spatial structure scheme for U.S. metropolitan …