During the last two decades, municipal affairs in Saudi Arabia have gone through a number of administrative and organizational reforms ranging from the establishment of a new Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs (M.O.M.R.A.) in 1975 to the creation of municipal branches in th…
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An integrated rural development project--the Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit (CADU) in South-central Ethiopia is investigated in the Social Learning framework to ascertain consistent convergence or divergence between stated project goals and actual programs. The research i…
The purpose of this study was to examine the greater use of citizen participation in planning and development in Nigeria. A review of the literature, a historical study of Nigeria, and case studies on citizen participation in some developed countries and Nigeria indicated that p…
This study investigates the historical process that led to the contemporary underdevelopment of Damagherim. The analysis proceeds from the twin hypotheses that underdevelopment resulted from (a) the specific form that capitalist penetration took under colonial rule; in particula…
The purpose of this study is to understand the non home-based travel behavior of urban market traders in Onitsha, Nigeria, where 58-70% of the labor force is engaged in trading. Relevant trip-inducing variables--gender, location, a means of personal transportation, size of stall…
The debate about the effectiveness of planning as an organizational change agent seems to center around the location of the planning organization within the administrative hierarchy of the municipality. This study attempts to provide some answers to this debate by proposing an o…
Researching urban spatial structure is a continuous proposition for the sake of obtaining knowledge of structural composition from one place to another and at different times, such as for past traditions and present contemporary urban spatial structure. The theme of this researc…
The dissertation investigates the six plans devised by Le Corbusier for Algiers between 1930 and 1942, situating them within the representations given to the French presence in Algiers and their volatile political and cultural milieu. The problem was to identify these canonized,…
This dissertation is a study of urban land in a colonial Nigerian city. It investigates the history and politics of urban land, land tenure, land use and access to land, and their intersections with the growth of urbanization in the late nineteenth and twentieth century eastern …
This dissertation applies a political ecology approach to analyze interactions between institutional dynamics of indigenous agroforestry and industrial timber plantation development. An extended case study focuses on a village in Sanggau District, West Kalimantan, combining ethn…
The coast of Bangladesh, comprising the complex delta of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system has immense resources for development. In the concept of present development efforts, this zone is among the most neglected in Bangladesh. It is very often affected by natural cal…
Since the 1960s, inter-city travel in the United States has been dominated by the automobile. Air service ranks second and buses serve a very small percentage of total trips, but are important as an alternative to cars in low-density corridors serving rural communities and small…
During the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990's, national survey data indicated that income distribution among Indonesian households became increasingly more egalitarian. However, it was unclear whether the distribution of income became more equal because of the crisis, or …
Shelter is recognized by the United Nations as a fundamental human need. Housing in Africa varies widely, from the leather tents of Tuareg nomads to Dogon cliffside dwellings. This thesis explores what the country of Niger has done in terms of shelter provision. In Niger, as els…
In 1909 the neighborhood-turned-metropolis of Tel Aviv was founded by sixty Jewish families from Jaffa, one of the oldest cities in the world. From the start Tel Aviv has been imagined and portrayed by its leaders and residents alike as both a “city from the sands” and as the “f…
Water shortages could significantly curtail economic growth and development in Casablanca, Morocco. Conservation programs in Morocco have been implemented only occasionally, usually during a water shortage crisis arising either from technical reasons or from drought. Public awar…
This dissertation considers the production of architecture and space and the concomitant discourses of modernity and nationality in postcolonial Indonesia. Its central theme concerns the ways architecture and urban space are appropriated, represented, and politicized, or equally…
Tropical oceanic islands because of their small size and isolated nature are characterized by richness in endemic plants and animals. Unfortunately, their endemic biota are highly vulnerable to mass extinction when humans continuously and extensively modify the natural landscape…