Planning for the informal seems paradoxical. But planning without considering the informal a part of the urban fabric is too precarious. In Delhi, the river Yamuna is polluted by thousands of kilometers of open-access ...

Planning Support System (PSS) with a core of dynamic spatio-temporal model has been developed as analytical and information tools to aid and inform urban planning processes. However, scholarly communities identify that PSS ...

New York City, like many other cities across the world, is experiencing a housing crisis attributed primarily to rising rents against stagnant wages for many New Yorkers. As a result, over half the city’s renters pay more ...

This report attempts to provide guidance to the City of Champaign’s Planning Department as it undertakes its first comprehensive review of the Zoning Ordinance since 1996. Specifically, this report seeks to build a foundation ...

The goal of this plan is to ultimately divert at least 90% of landfill-bound waste produced at Allerton into sustainable recycling and composting streams, thus reducing park greenhouse gas emissions and moving Allerton ...

In the third part, Miyazawa's extended input-output framework is employed to measure the impacts of unscheduled events, such as major natural disasters, that cause simultaneous changes in both supply and demand, as well ...

Difficulties encountered during planning of rural development projects reduce the chances for successful implementation. Decades of experience with planning support to developing countries suggest that macro- and micro- ...

This exploratory research was designed to understand how poor communities appropriate decentralization policies to raise their expectations of the state and consequently press their own agenda in development and poverty ...

A thesis looking at three questions: 1) Are millenials leading the re-urbanization by moving back to and staying in the cities? 2) Are their location choices driven by their economic constraints or unique attitudes? 3) ...

Hyderabad is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and is a city rich in history. It boasts a variety of ancient monuments and sites of historical and cultural significance but face a number of stresses from pollution, ...