Urbanization in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) is very different from that in More Developed Countries (MDCs). While the urban growth rate of MDCs has been stable for a long time, the large cities in LDCs are growing enormously. This thesis studies housing policy in Dhaka City,…
"348" Result
Sort By:
This dissertation examines some aspects of the transition process in the former Soviet Union, including urban housing, the geography of trade flows, and the behavior of an employee-dominated firm. The first essay explores the fundamentals of the Moscow housing market. It establi…
Involuntary migration and resettlement is examined as a development strategy and analyzed in an intensive study of the New Halfa Scheme in eastern Sudan. New Halfa was created between 1962 and 1969 to foster economic development through large-scale irrigated agriculture and to c…
During the last several decades, regional movements have emerged in different parts of the world, posing a challenge to current regional planning practices and policies. This dissertation analyzes some of the concepts of regionalism and the major issues that arise from particula…
This study investigates the causes of deaths and injuries in the August 17th, 1999 Kocaeli earthquake to provide recommendations for risk mitigation. An epidemiological survey of the causes of deaths and injuries was completed for 453 households with 1,861 members. A geo-spatial…
Les decennies '70-80 en Mauritanie sont celles du developpement rural a la base selon la formule de micro-projets. Indissociable des bouvelversements qui ont marque la societe rurale au cours de ces trois decennies, cette approche s'est distinguee dans l'extension de la culture …
The Yoruba traditional housing form is the compound system. Its arrangement expresses the strong family ties central to the culture, emphasizing the compound as the unit of primary attachment for extended family members. However, the compound spatial structure has been changed c…
This thesis is concerned with land use change and its relationship with sustainable development at a community and regional level. Increasingly, land use change has been associated with growing vulnerability of the human and physical systems, which has raised concerns about the …
Indonesia achieved high economic growth between 1974 and 1996 because of high oil prices and transformation policies. The policies made disparity in regional economic development wider. This study explores a way to mitigate the interregional economic disparity and to maximize na…
In spite of its spontaneous and improvised character, the informal sector has provided virtually the only appropriate housing, in terms of the organization of the outdoor space, for the urban poor of the developing countries. Through an analysis of the outdoor spaces in Eziukwu-…
This study, first, looks at the underlying causes of the housing problem in Iran, and second, examines the relationships of the number of housing co-ops in a region with the level of economic development and the need for decent and affordable housing in that region. The census d…
Through this work a database and an ARCVIEW tutorial based on a Senegalese local community cartographic model is developed. The Ross-Bethio rural community model was selected as an example of solving methodological problems in natural resources management at the scale of a rural…
This dissertation presents four studies covering different areas of Indonesian regional analysis with special attention to the interregional interaction. The first study examines the determinants of the lay-off process that took place during the Indonesian economic crisis among …
The aim of this project is to investigate the possibility that studies done on villages may be used to inform the urban development of modern cities. More particularly, its aim is to extract clues from studies done on selected villages in the mountains of North Lebanon and used …
Through an ethnographic analysis of housing in the Arabian Gulf State of Qatar, this study explores the production and reproduction of social diversity through the articulation of social and spatial process. Since the discovery and commercial exploitation of Qatar's oil and natu…
In many developing nations, the state plays a role in economic development by controlling strategic, export-oriented industrialization (EOI). Indeed, this approach characterized the recent rise of the newly industrializing countries (NICs). While these states have succeeded in b…
This work addresses the subject area of global urbanization and its linked environmental and social consequences, a relatively recent focus within the larger geographic tradition of investigating interrelationships between people and their environments. The research site is a ra…
Kapitalist toplumlarda istihdam politikaları ve istihdam yapısındaki değişme sadece özel sektörde değil, kamu sektöründe de belirleyici olmaktadır. Çalışmamızda kamu istihdamındaki değişme, belediyelerin istihdam yapısı ve bu yapıdaki değişme üzerinden incelemek amaçlanmıştır. B…
Araştırmamızda Batı Trakya ‘Dedeağaç, Gümülcine ve İskeçe şehir ve köylerinde’ yaşayan Müslüman Türk Toplumunun dini ve sosyal hayatı teorik ve pratik yöntemler kullanılarak incelenmiştir. Araştırmamızın örneği; din olgusunun toplumsal yapı ile karşılıklı etkileşiminin incelendi…