Statement of issue. In conflicted societies, some formal land regulatory systems, like exclusionary forms of zoning, are used as mechanisms by the colonizer to control and oppress the colonized and deny their basic human rights and needs (Bollens 1989; Yiftachel, 1996; Ophir, 20…
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The present thesis is an investigation of sustainable rural community development in the face of the global economy. It aims to develop a framework for capacity building, leading to the empowerment of rural communities in developing countries in response to restructuring and adj…
The purpose of this study is to understand how the Turkish immigrant community in Paterson, New Jersey, obtains and retains jobs in wage employment and enters into and survives in small business; in the process using its own resources to negotiate the formal and informal opportu…
This dissertation analyses the Turkish cement industry's 41 firms, and focuses on the 18 privatizations completed between 1989 and the end of 1992. Privatization is analyzed in terms of its effects on economic efficiency, and for its potential impact on larger, more general busi…
This study investigates the networking behavior of innovative firms in two regions in Turkey: Ankara and Istanbul. Specifically, it compares the geographical extent and characteristics of innovation networks between the two regions when firms carry out innovation, i.e. developin…
This study has three objectives: (a) to document and analyze regional disparities in Iran, (b) to identify the underlying causes of regional disparities, (3) to delineate the basic components of a national spatial strategy plan aimed at a more balanced regional development. Regi…
This dissertation examines the consequences of commitments by private and public agents to behaviors and structures that promote learning for the relative success and continued growth of industrial and technology poles in developing countries. Going beyond conventional formulati…
Primate cities emerge, grow, and become dominant in the urban system as a result of a complex set of internal and external forces operating at different macro and micro levels. The strength of primacy, as indicated by the degree of population concentration in one or a few urban …
Temporary housing after disasters is the outcome of a complex process that merits attention in its own right; it is distinct from, yet interrelated with, the process of reconstruction. Some forms of temporary housing projects have been instigated after most major disasters in th…
This dissertation is fundamentally about the formation of new regional spaces in Central Eurasia viewed from a dynamic, comparative and historical approach. Analyzing the global-local economic and political interactions and their consequences on resource rich countries of the Ca…
Can disasters stimulate the formation of social capital in communities? What are the factors that may lead to the formation and transformation of social capital in the context of a disaster? What policy lessons could we derive for utilization of social capital by planners and po…
Tourism is an economic alternative to revitalise Turkey's economy. However, without good planning, it can turn out to be a big damage on natural resources of an area. Yumurtalik is a study area of this thesis. Yumurtalik is a small town (population, 3970) located on the east Med…
Until quite recently "tourism" was principally a feature of, and was largely confined to, the developed countries. During the past two decades, however, tourism has become an income earning alternative to the many Third World countries, a "passport to development." The current s…
The main objective in this research is to offer an analytical and empirical analysis of the process of economic development in post-revolutionary Iran. I maintain that Iran's development shortcomings in modern times are a result of arrested or incomplete industrialization caused…
This dissertation explores the tensions inherent in historical appropriation by juxtaposing the ideas in Orientalism by Edward Said against selected projects, paintings and writings of Egyptian intellectual Hassan Fathy. Said's methodology, of linking the hegemonic hypotheses of…
This study attempts to identify the religious norms that governed and continue to govern the development of spatial form in Muslim cities, as a precept to formulating, anew, Islamic urban principles and determining their relevance in a changing society. The objective is to devel…
In Saudi Arabian urban landscapes, and across the Muslim world, negligence and the displacement of symbols of the natural reflect an inability amongst the public to find relevance, within the predominant development paradigm, to the Islamic ideals about nature, landscape, city, …
The following dissertation provides an ethnographic study of transformations that accompany the emergence of innovative media and communication technologies in the African Muslim nation of Morocco. Drawing on field research conducted in Casablanca, Morocco, this work addresses t…
It has been assumed that paid work leads to a greater autonomy for women. This dissertation focuses on how education and employment relate to different dimensions of autonomy. Four dimensions of autonomy are discussed. They are economic decision making, ability to take care of s…
While the general notion of madina is largely familiar to a broad audience, its central importance to the making of the modern city and its sustainability as a dynamic component of the process of urbanization is often overlooked and deserves closer attention . A close scrutiny o…