Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı Güvercintepe Spor Parkı, Başakşehir Spor Parkı, Bahçeşehir Spor Merkezi tarafından hizmet verilen spor parklarına yönelik vatandaşların hizmet kalitesi algılarının tespit edilmesidir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Araştırma tanımlayıcı ve açıklayıcı tiptedir. Araş…
Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) maintains many drainage structures such as culverts, pipes, and vegetated ditches to ensure the proper conveyance of stormwater runoff way from highways. Recent studies have shown that the vegetated ditches (or vegetated swales) alon…
Despite billions of dollars spent and hundreds of studies conducted, there seems to have been progress made in meeting the housing and infrastructures shortages in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) (Akinyemi, 1988; Scott, 1998; Easterly, 2006). Theoretical constructs such as cultu…
This dissertation explores the long term development implications of China's Eurasian rail land bridge on the economies of countries it transits, namely Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus. The dissertation explores the historical context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and how…
Urban planners and architects have concerned about the architectural style and theme of the NEOM city, because most of the new cities in the area seemed to be a generic city, no one wants to have another Dubai, Manhattan and Singapore. So what is the best code or development gui…
Infrastructure plays an all-pervasive role in any given society.As such, financing of infrastructure project is expected to yield positive externality on economic growth and improvement in the quality of life. Nigeria is not an exception in this regard. In view of this importanc…
Argument continues over whether heritage conservation and planning strategies should be promoted in historic cities for economic, educational, aesthetic and other purposes. Heritage conservation, planning and management has developed as a distinct speciality rapidly in the last …
Lebanon lacks planning and suffers from excessive bureaucracy, overcentralized government, and from inadequate growth and development. Therefore there are marked economic and social disparities among Lebanon's regions and communities. It was found that the inadequacies and ineff…
Public housing in Peninsular Malaysia is grossly inadequate in the face of socio-economic problems characteristic of most urban societies in developing economies. The New Economic Policy that seeks to restructure Malaysian society is expected to add new urgency and increased pol…
This ethno-historical analysis of everyday life in contemporary Aleppo, Syria predicates its interpretational method of urban meaning on the contention that antagonistic practices over local space reflect and render significant conflicts in Syrian society as a whole. Because loc…
Low-income rural to urban migrants in developing countries encounter various socio-economic and cultural problems that influence their everyday life. The provision of housing reflects many of these problems. The design of appropriate house-form is one aspect of housing deserving…
There are now probably more than 25 million nomads in Africa and Asia. Nomads constitute a large percentage of the population in many Afro-Asian countries, ranging from 60 percent in Somalia and Mauritania to 15 percent in Saudi Arabia and five percent in Syria. Temporary and pe…
This study examines the question of whether or not Saudi Arabia, which is dependent on revenues from oil exports, is succeeding in developing alternative and non-depletable sources of income. The fourth Saudi development plan refers explicitly to "prudent self-sufficiency" as a …
This dissertation develops a national perspective of public housing policy in Peninsular Malaysia. Although there have been numerous useful studies on specific housing topics, these studies have not addressed many macro-level policy questions which are essential to national poli…
In 1833 Athens presented a miserable picture. The fights of the War of Independence against Turkey (1821-1827) had left a desolated town. Athens, with the meager population of 4,000, was proclaimed the capital of newly-independent Greece. Two young architects, Stamatios Kleanthe…
Research investigating the economies of the Saudi Arabian regions (the five planning regions) has substantially neglected the government role in developing these regions. Such neglect can be traced to the paucity of data pertaining to regional government spending and to conventi…
This dissertation is an attempt to analyze Malaysian regional policies and strategies in relation to the primary goal of reducing regional disparities in income and other indicators of the standard of living as well as in relation to the overriding national goals of poverty erad…
In any capitalist economy, regional socio-economic disparities emerge in the course of growth and development. The purpose of this study was to investigate regional disparities in Nigeria from 1970 to 1985 and determine whether regional trends reflect Kuznets' or Myrdal's econom…