Following the fuel shortages of the 1970's, the critical importance of energy to a country's sustained economic development became widely recognized. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, a significant portion of foreign exchange earnings is used to pay for impor…
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Most cities of the developing countries face serious transportation problems largely due to the high rate of population growth. Greater commercial and industrial activities, increased vehicle ownership, combined with serious planning deficiencies and limited resources, have caus…
Economic development in post-war Afghanistan depends on mobilization of domestic private resources and inputs of production. A sector of the economy that would mobilize private resources is urban housing and infrastructure. The identification of this sector is supported by the d…
This dissertation provides historical and descriptive analyses of slum and squatter settlements and potential solutions to their problems, in particular: (1) sites-and-services and (2) upgrading of existing communities, at both the project and the city level. These two broad app…
This dissertation focuses on the functions and roles of two intermediate-sized cities within an international economic system. Wallerstein's "world systems" model is used as a framework for studying the changes that occur in a resource frontier region and its two cities as deman…
Statement of the Problem. The major objective of this dissertation is to analyse how population movement began in the development process, and to define the principal determinants of internal migration. There is a striking internal population disequilibrium in Morocco with the g…
This dissertation represents an attempt to develop an interregional social accounting model (SAM) for Bangladesh and demonstrate its practical application as appropriate framework for analysis of interregional economic interactions. The model as developed in this dissertation co…
This study examines intraurban residential preferences in Sana'a, the capital city of the Republic of Yemen. Other aspects of the city's urban development related to the study topic are also discussed. Outer peripheral areas of the city received the highest positive preference r…
This dissertation examines the job creation process in small enterprises to shed some light on why the past ten years of assistance to these enterprises has failed to create jobs. The dissertation examines the job creation process in 184 enterprises in Jakarta to determine how t…
Many cities in capitalist Third World countries face the problem of ensuring an adequate supply of affordable housing to low-income households while shifting from unregulated to regulated housing production processes. Since the early 1970s, the government of Jakarta, Indonesia h…
This study of land use in Mena, one of the four holy sites of Al-Hajj, uses an ecological analysis approach. Literature, government documents, reports, and the comprehensive plan of the Makkah area were reviewed. A guidance plan for Mena, slides, and video tapes about pilgrims' …
The purpose of this dissertation is to develop an approach which may aid decision-makers in the arid regions of the Middle East in formulating a comprehensive and operational set of landscape planning objectives. This purpose is sought through a dual approach; the first deals wi…
Le Parc National du Niokolo-Koba, situe au sud-est du Senegal, couvre une superficie de 913 000 hectares et constitue actuellement le seul refuge de la grande faune du pays. Les pressions qui menacent le maintien de les ressources naturelles se manifestent par: les convoitises s…
This is the story of a new Egyptian city, Tenth of Ramadan, designed within the utopian framework and built in the eastern desert in the late 1970s. The study focuses on understanding the dwellers' experiences in their context and deciphering their experiential meanings which cu…
This study examines the effect of commuting time variance on productivity. The benefits of urban transportation investments for commuters have been treated extensively, but the benefits to firms have received scant attention. Demonstrating that these investments can boost not on…
This research examines a participatory approach to integrated and multiobjective river basin planning with an empirical focus on the Senegal River Basin and Senegal's agricultural development program. The major premise is that regional level objectives cannot be attained and a p…
The creation of a neutral zone between the opposing Greek and Turkish sectors of Nicosia is intended to promote refamiliarization of the two estranged communities. The round shape of the city, resulting from its Renaissance fortifications, is examined as an archetypal circular p…
The tremendous growth in Indonesia's economy is the result of national development programs. However, the hastened modernization programs have created social imbalances which escalate the proliferation of squatter settlements in the cities. Because the modernization of the agric…