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(2019-04-18)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 ...
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(2017-08-31)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 ...
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(1994)The Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration aesthetic-based legislation, policies, regulations, guidelines, and procedures as well as their implementation are not only inadequate and inappropriate for ...
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(2019-07-16)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 ...
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(2021-07-09)Wetlands provide several ecosystem services and are globally critical infrastructure in the era of manufactured climate change. With rare exceptions, planners and policymakers have neglected urban wetlands. In this research, ...
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(1999)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 ...
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(1992)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- ...
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(1990)This research attempts to provide a clear vision of urban information systems, particularly the application of information systems to planning and public policy making. The development of an expert system combined with ...
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(2010-08-20)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 ...
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(2012-09-18)In July of 2008, the United States had the highest gasoline price in both nominal and real dollars since the 1950s. As a result, there was a record mass transit ridership increase in the following months. Urban planners ...
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(2004)It is also important to have a spatially balanced sample when the range of impact from a source is spatially limited. Stratified area sampling, taking all observations within a certain distance band, performs better than ...
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(2019-04-24)Regional economic development narratives have shifted from focusing on a perennially growing – or at least stable – urban core to a more complex and uneven patchwork of localized growth and decline. Declining areas have ...
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(2015-07-24)Institutional racism in the United States has evolved into a “racial state” that situates the state as a reproducer of the inequalities of the past in terms of resource allocation, social consciousness, and political power, ...
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(2012-02-06)This research examined the relationship between social networks of a community and its planning capacity. Nine common patterns (traits) of effective planning efforts were identified and aligned with social network methods. ...
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(2016-06-24)This dissertation research emphasizes achieving greater urban inclusion through transit-oriented development (TOD). In exploring St. Louis, Missouri's Delmar Loop TOD site, I specifically focus on the impact public ...
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(2013-05-24)Social capital, narrowly defined as networks of individuals who are linked through bonding or bridging relationships, has become a much discussed but poorly interrogated concept within studies of place based development. ...
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Capacity expansion modeling of water supply in a planning support system for urban growth management (1995)A planning support system enhances our ability to use water capacity expansion as an urban growth management strategy. This paper reports the development of capacity expansion modeling of water supply as part of the ...
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(2007)I highlight the importance of formal training of partners to address power discrepancies. It is pointed out that the power discrepancies lead to problems setting agendas that work well for both sides of the partnership. ...
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(1990)This research analyzes housing policies in the People's Republic of China in the following three ways. First, it describes the current state of Chinese housing and housing policies. Second, it explores how Chinese housing ...
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(1999)This thesis is divided into eight chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Background; (3) Research Design and Methodology; (4) Literature Review and Variable Construction; (5) Data Collection; (6) Data Analysis; (7) Findings; and ...
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