This plan considers the needs of bicyclists and pedestrians and creates a complete transportation network that connects neighborhoods and amenities to enable residents and visitors, of all ages and abilities, multiple ...

Policy makers in less developed countries have responded to the chronic shortage of low income housing by buying land, providing infrastructure, and reselling the land. Recently, this "sites and services" approach has been ...

Geographical Modeling Systems (GMS) are computer based, dynamic landscape simulation tools. As computing power continues to become cheaper and faster, GMSs will become increasingly important for the intelligent management ...

Workforce participation has an important influence on poverty levels, crime rates, and the physical and social environments. Many communities face barriers to workforce participation, some more than others. The goal of ...

Many are the transformations and changes in the urbanization processes in Brazil since the late 1980s when the democratic regime was established after twenty years of a dictatorship. In Brazil, the 1990s are characterized ...

This paper investigates how different states are structured for their economic development systems. There are several common institutional approaches for the main economic development agency to organize themselves. This ...

Unpredictable and irregular work schedules are a well-known aspect of labor conditions in the retail and food service sectors of the US economy (Lambert, Fugiel, & Henly, 2014). This issue is now being addressed by advocates ...

This report examines New Zealand's policies regarding the protection of surf breaks and the dialogue that exists between the surfers of the region and the officials in New Zealand.

Sustainable Economic Development (SED) is a broad and often elusive concept. This paper analyzes the framing of this "fuzzy" idea by a group seeking to establish the first Geopark in the Netherlands. this paper includes a ...

This plan addresses Xinchang historic district's developing problems in space, culture, environment and economy, and the responses to public investigations. It is intended to guide sustainable development in the historic district.