In view of the pressures accompanying modern life and population growth, there is great need and importance in the preservation of historic sites, which can create balance between the past and future and strengthen the sense of stability and cultural continuity. This study criti…
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The United States routinely uses military power to impose grand plans for peacekeeping and nation-building. From Korea to Iraq, the U.S. military has been a driving force in this era of American Empire. Given this empire's global reach, what are its local impacts? Crime and envi…
Urban environments are geographical semiotic information systems represented by neighbourhood layouts, organization of streets and house designs. These geographic features form statements of and contexts for different socio-cultural functions and behaviourial patterns. Geographi…
The assignment of functions to sub-national governments has been an important issue in both federal and unitary states. Indonesia, a unitary state, has recently addressed this issue in the context of its district autonomy pilot program, providing an opportune window to empirical…
This study examined the effectiveness of small business and microenterprise development programs in assisting participants to start or expand a business, and/or transfer the skills gained from the programs to wage employment. Further analysis specifically concentrated on finding…
The nineteenth century was a time of intense social change in the Ottoman realm. The integration of the Ottoman Empire with the capitalist world economy and the modernization efforts of the Ottoman rulers in order to "adapt" the Ottoman social system to the changing conditions o…
A Mixed-Use Development (MXD) is a relatively large-scale real estate project with physical integration of three or more revenue producing uses. The uses: retail, office, residential, hotel, cultural facility, and recreation, are intensively connected and mutually supportive. Th…
This study investigates the housing characteristics and the determinants of housing production of the informal housing sector in Alexandria, Egypt. It also examines the impact of land policies on the development of the informal housing sector. Informal housing, by definition, is…
The study analyses the contributions of agriculture and manufacturing inputs and productivity to economic growth in Nigeria for the period, 1970-1992. It argues past production techniques in the aforementioned sectors were not efficient enough to permit a sustained economic grow…
Open spaces, like urban parks in cities are impaired between the bureaucracy of the city government and the imperatives of commercialization. They are stagnant, unable to challenge the imagination. They melt into the background of a trancelike condition we live in. Design can jo…
Since 1991, the Sulawesi Regional Development Project has promoted Rapid Rural Appraisal training in an attempt to improve the quality of project proposals submitted for funding under the Indonesian bottom-up planning (BUP) system. Analysis of information collected using intervi…
This thesis describes and analyses the inter-ethnic context of planning in Richmond, B.C., a suburban city of Vancouver with a population of 150,000 residents, approximately 40% of whom are of Chinese ethnicity. It describes how rapid and intense immigration from Hong Kong resul…
This study compiles and analyzes the available data to estimate Mongolia's population size and distribution throughout the twentieth century. An understanding of Mongolian demographics is useful for interpreting Mongolia's society, economics, and politics, because population cha…
Although urbanization in Ethiopia is at its embroynic stage, most urban scholars have characterized the history of urbanization in Ethiopia into three categories. These are urbanization in the (a) pre-Italian period (1900-1935); (b) Italian colonization period (1936-1941); and (…
Research related to conservation of the natural and manmade environments is shifting towards a broader definition of the word "conservation." This new paradigm shift does not limit the domain of conservation to aesthetic preservation of cultural artifacts and historic monuments,…
This research reports the results of a survey sent to randomly selected landscape architects practicing in Fort Worth, Texas and its Sister Cities: Trier, Germany; Budapest, Hungary; Reggio Emilia, Italy; Nagaoka, Japan; and Bandung, Indonesia. The purpose of the research was to…
This thesis focuses on informal actors involved in urban solid waste recovery. More specifically, it aims to confirm the existence, within these activities, of two distinct fringes based on their access facility. One of them is stagnant if not volutional, and only serves as a me…
Burgeoning environmental crises in cities have sparked academic and practical inquiry into urban environmental issues. My review of academic literature and government and donor policies and publications reveals two weaknesses: (1) researchers depict cities homogeneously, failing…
Industrialization and rapid urbanization are two of the causes of increasing rural-urban inequality in developing countries. The result is an en masse movement of people from rural to urban areas in search of a better life. This influx of rural migrants causes the metropolitan a…