Informal urbanization in Third world cities, as generally characterized in the literature, produces sprawling low density marginal cities. Informal settlements rapidly spread on peripheral urban land in the stereotypical form of an endless low income low density suburbanization …
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the feasibility of utilizing self-help housing approaches to improve the low-income housing delivery system in Malaysia. Squatters were identified as the unit of measurement for the low-income households. Twenty-six independent var…
Many countries use household expenditure data to measure poverty. Economic theory that supports using expenditures as a proxy for welfare relies on the assumption that, except for varying expenditures, households are similar in all other important respects. Where households or e…
In this study, I analyze the rise of a new, modernist elite of architects and planners in fascist Italy, and their efforts to transform Libya into a model Italian colony. Libya was under Italian rule from 1911-1943. Under fascism (1922-1943), architects and planners engaged in m…
The Northern Areas (NAs) of Pakistan are considered a biodiversity hot spot, particularly for species adapted to rugged, high mountains. Many large mammal populations have been depleted, primarily by over-hunting. Recent community-based conservation and development initiatives m…
This dissertation explores modern transformations of the cultural landscape and social geography of Tunis, and their imbrication with a shift in the politics, identities, and cultural practices of the urban working class from the 1970s to the present. During this period, the ide…
The purpose of this dissertation is to identify various sources hitherto neglected by the field of historic preservation in Turkey, and to seek possible ways in which they can be incorporation into this field. As demonstrated by the case study chosen for this dissertation—the Ba…
This study focuses on Indonesian central government grants to local governments. Such grants are a major source of funding for local public services, and they are important for the recently commenced decentralization of government finances. How does the distribution of funds cor…
There is a lack of research on the relationships between rural areas and the urban hierarchy in Indonesia. Because of this, policies for urban and rural development are undertaken in isolation from one another, without incorporating the implications of rural-urban linkages for r…
This research studies the role of the Mexican State in promoting Planned Tourist Development (PTD) and the role of the local tourist entrepreneurs in this process during the last quarter of this century. Although this study targets the case study of Quintana Roo as its main obje…
A methodological framework is developed in this research to examine the effects of land use patterns on resulting air quality of an urban area. The traditional four-step modelling system is employed to investigate the travel patterns. The resulting emissions and fuel consumption…
This study examines landscape regulations and their potential to improve the urban environments of developing countries. The literature on environmental problems of developing countries suggests that landscape solutions must be both economic and environmentally sound. Religion a…
This dissertation is about the change of paradigm and behavior of a local government in Indonesia since a democratic process started in 1997. The objective of this dissertation is to find answers on how the government perceives and positions its role in development. The author u…
This research critically examined the institutional arrangements for management of the coastal zone in Indonesia. The term "institutions" refers to a definable system of public decision making which includes organizational entities and rules. Two programs were selected from seve…
In Indonesia, a large country experiencing unprecedented urban growth, the responsibility for conducting urban management tasks is increasingly being devolved to local governments. However, they have not been endowed with capacities and resources that sufficiently enable them to…
This dissertation explores Soviet efforts to transform the social and physical landscape of the USSR. It looks at the process of building socialism through the prism of urban development in Tashkent, the multi-ethnic capital of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. It shows how S…
This dissertation explores settlement patterns and housing typologies of modern Turkey from the republican period to today. It is considered beneficial in the context of the research to analyze the concepts of dwelling and settlement. Housing and settlement patterns starting wit…
There is no lack of studies on the contribution of rural-urban migration to the urbanisation process in Southeast Asia. This study goes beyond the common tradition. The huge urban complex of contemporary Jakarta structures the mass migration of the Jakarta's low income groups th…
This thesis attempts to detail and analyze the key factors in applying an affordable housing strategy in Trinidad and Tobago. The question that is posed is, “how can the affordable housing strategy of Trinidad and Tobago be improved?” A political and economic history of Trinidad…