The astonishing development of various industries during the last thirty years has, to some extent, led to minute vocational specialization and many vocational choices. In this situation, the schools in Algeria should be capable of guiding and counseling students in their educat…
"348" Result
Sort By:
The Arab-Islamic city is a city which is not thoroughly understood. It is a city which is based on socio-cultural values brought about by the religious teachings of Islam, yet it is not limited to a certain language of imagery, symbols and signs, or is a city of a prescribed pat…
Between 1333 and 1391, Granada, the capital city of the Nasrid dynasty, developed into an urban center of regional, if not world, renown. Through the social and religious reform efforts of Yusuf I, Granada evolved first into a model Islamic capital--a center of orthodox learning…
In response to both crumbling infrastructure and a heavy economic dependence on tourism, the Egyptian Government embarked on the Historic Cairo Restoration Program to conserve and promote Cairo's traditional Islamic architecture. Simultaneously, a broad-based, integrative planni…
This study is generated by the limited understanding on how the planning system changes from state driven planning to an empowered participatory planning model. Planning theory literatures lack an understanding of how the new model of planning system emerged in the society espec…
This dissertation attempts to assess the developmental experience of the Maldives, a small island state in the Indian Ocean, since the inception of tourism, in 1972. By the standard most commonly used (GDP per capita growth), this experience has been perhaps the world's most suc…
Lack of quality drinking water has been identified as a major health and economic problem in many developing countries for more than two decades. This problem particularly affects the rural communities of these developing countries. To confront this, the World Bank has attempted…
Researchers have attempted to unravel the mystery behind resource management challenges in Africa. However, relatively little attempts have so far been made to understand the indigenous philosophical underpinnings and traditional perceptions to natural resource governance in the…
This dissertation describes the development of regional econometric input-output model for Jakarta, Indonesia, a metropolitan economy in the developing country. The severe data limitation and data inconsistencies are the major constraints in the early stages of model development…
Efficient public transportation is important for growth and the dynamic economic functioning of cities. Many cities in the developing world are plagued by infrastructure shortages, insufficient public transportation services, and severe traffic congestion which impair industrial…
Environmental assessment (EA) has been undertaken in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia since the late 1970s but EA programmes are largely ineffective. Due to political pressures for economic development, considerable power and authority is vested in development agencies and relat…
For many years, the Casamance was a self-sufficient region. Recently, this region has experienced food deficits because of the persistent drought. Given the shortage of rainfall over the last several years and the increasing accumulation of salt, the number of abandoned mangrove…
To understand the meaning of the Islamic forms, it is essential to relate them to the time, space and their specific historical context. The forms themselves, could be considered as neutral elements or as simple technical devices of construction and decoration, unless they acqui…
The rational comprehensive approach to planning has proven unable to reduce urban poverty due either to the exclusion or to the inappropriate inclusion of indigenous knowledge in planning practice. As an alternative, this dissertation analyzes (1) the capacity of local residents…
This thesis approaches critically the meaning of development and related practices as understood by local rural people in Indonesia. In particular, it describes how the people in upland Citanduy River Basin, West Java, Indonesia, have responded to and incorporated into their eve…
Most available representational tools in the fields of Architecture and Urban Architectural History present inaccurate expressions of urban architectural evolution. Instead of representing urban architectural change as part of a universal flow, most of them present it as a serie…
L'analyse a pour objet d'interroger une expérience de remodelage de l'espace rural via la “Révolution agraire” en Algérie. Les repères contextuels, au plan de l'évolution historique, des contraintes du milieu, des pesanteurs sociologiques et des exigences du développement économ…
There are three ways that current water policies in Jakarta, Indonesia need to be reformed. First, water utilities cannot at present provide adequate water supply to all the city's residents, despite the fact that it receives capital subsidies from the central and local governme…
The preservation of the 'identity of place' of the West Bank (and Palestine) is sought, acknowledging the existence of a housing crisis in the West Bank which could inalterably affect the vernacular (natural and built environments) of Palestine. The significance of the 'Holy Lan…