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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"world cities"”.
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Introducing information technology in third world cities : the Tunisian experience
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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Causes, effects, and implications of subletting : experiences from low-income neighborhoods in Third World cities
… numbers of low-income families in Third World cities have found it necessary to share housing accommodation. Those with access to land may be unable to afford to build their house or to pay the fees associated with their housing (particularly in upgrading or sites & service projects). …
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Gender and Site-Name Recall of Geographic Sites Varying in Distance.
… of campus buildings, campus city sites, regional cities, U.S. cities, U.S. states, world cities, world countries, and world continents/bodies of water matched correctly were determined. A demographic questionnaire was also presented. Overall, men performed significantly better than women on the …
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The Economics of Crime and Punishment: A Computational Approach
… and law enforcement are observed empiricallyin cities. For example, spatial clustering of crimes is observed. It is difficult to explain this clustering with Becker's crime model using representative agents. We extend Becker's model using an agent-based approach to explain this phenomenon. …
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Station-level ridership on Mexico City's subway and BRT
… and prohibitively costly for many developing-world cities. In addition, they are not designed to analyze the influence pf station-level characteristics. Direct ridership modelling (DRM), a "sketch-planning" tool that uses multivariate regressions to predict station-level ridership, is a viable …
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Ekistics, architecture and environmental politics, 1945-1976 : a prehistory of sustainable development by Panayiota I. Pyla.
… Fuller, who embraced Doxiadis's vision of world cities, and Hassan Fathy, who operated as a proponent of local "traditions" in the midst of the Ekistics group.
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History within the Wall Transition & Transformation The Transition of Architecture to Art
We are living in a fast track world, where technology increasingly dictates our way of life. With technology progressing faster than ever and infiltrating our jobs and homes, we are forced to adapt to this way of life in order to keep up with out ever-changing world. Cities are experiencing changes …
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The Flow of Water, Power, and Ideas: Water Commodification in Cape Town, South Africa and the Stratified Experiences of Time and Space Compression
… <p>By painting a theoretical picture of world cities, I wish to complicate the dominant views of time/space compression and suggest that, much like development and arguably because of it, time and space compression actually becomes a stratified experience in the geographical space of a …
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Washington Square Park: Struggles and Debates over Urban Public Space
… use and control of public places in contemporary cities. This master’s thesis uses as an example Washington Square Park, which has become a center of contention due to the interplay of public and private interests. In the center of the current confrontation is New York University’s plan to add 2.4 …
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To what extent has research conducted by the GaWC Research Network aided our understanding of large EU law firm geography?
… on research conducted by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network to assist me. Between 1999 and 2010, the GaWC published seven research papers exploring the geographies of large US and UK law firms. Several of the GaWC’s observations arising from these studies were …
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Bubbles of Exclusivity: Bursting the bubble around private development in uMhlanga, Durban
All around the world, cities are making a move towards a more inclusive city, while smaller towns like uMhlanga, Durban are speeding into the world of exclusion. Durban itself continues to be developed along the lines of exclusion, with the previously racially motivated segregation being supplanted …
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"""Little Manhattan"" in the Shadow of Global Prescriptions: The Spatial and Social Restructuring of the Banking Sector in Istanbul in the Era of Financial Liberalization"
… dominant urbanization agenda, making Istanbul a world city, and the economic development agenda, financial liberalization, were strikingly articulated as two predominant development projects in the 1990s. My dissertation is an attempt to examine the process of globalization by focusing on the …
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In memories to the future, building from spontaneity : reconsidering occidental theories and third world realities
… theory in the act of "place making" in the Third World? The act of "place making" is an important phenomena, particularly in creating a sense of continuity in the transformation of a built environment. It is an interactive layering of events and activities in the development of a place. This …
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The Nigerian novel and the postcolonial city
… Approaches that denigrate so-called Third World cities as particularly dystopic and illegible do not present the whole picture and are therefore one-sided and misleading. The Nigerian novel, it argues, reflects the need for rethinking of the dominant templates of urban studies to take into …
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Quality of Urban Life and Intensification: Understanding Housing Choices, Trade-Offs, and the Role of Urban Amenities
Many New World cities in New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Northwest have urban growth management policies and strategies in place to promote intensification as a way to avoid sprawl while continuing to absorb population growth. Enhancing the quality of urban life of residents has also become …
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The Social Production of the Built Environment: the Case of the Townhouse in Harare, Zimbabwe
… creation of built environments in the Third World. The absence of appropriate theoretical frameworks has hampered the research of Third World cities. Recently, however, the opportunity for applying concepts, that have to date been largely confined to the study of western cities, has increased …
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A socio-ecological systems perspective on planning for informality
… of an aesthetic governmentality in “world cities” like Delhi urges an ethnographic exploration of why waste becomes so visible in these spaces even though it is produced upstream, and so aversive that it compels middle-class Delhi to demand– and Delhi High Court to grant– evictions. …
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The effectiveness of Urban Green Infrastructure for urban heat regulation.
… heat is one of the significant challenges for cities, which combinedly occurs and exacerbates with urban heat islands, heatwaves and climate change impacts. It diminishes the quality of urban life and makes cities intrinsically more vulnerable than rural areas. Extreme heat has claimed more …
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The effectiveness of Urban Green Infrastructure for urban heat regulation.
… heat is one of the significant challenges for cities, which combinedly occurs and exacerbates with urban heat islands, heatwaves and climate change impacts. It diminishes the quality of urban life and makes cities intrinsically more vulnerable than rural areas. Extreme heat has claimed more …
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