This research focuses on the impact of the contemporary built environment on traditional Muslim sociocultural values in Saudi Arabia where urbanization over the last three decades has been massive, rapid, and based on Western planning models. The loss of a distinctive architectu…
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This thesis presents a study on the impact of building rezoning and change of use on energy consumption and occupants' thermal comfort. Most buildings are subjected to a change in function as well as modifications in partitions layout, which normally impacts space thermal loads.…
This research aims at formulating a water resources planning model for optimum allocation of water resources supplies (groundwater, surface water, desalinated water, and treated wastewater) to the various demands (domestic, agricultural, industrial and landscaping demands). Sinc…
The purpose of this research is to explain the processes by which communities develop their settlements outside of formal planning and regulatory frameworks in order to recommend ways these processes could be improved. Drawing on empirical evidence from the development processes…
Notre objectif de recherche est de contribuer a l'elaboration d'une approche de gestion de l'eau qui prendrait en compte l'ensemble des acteurs et des structures en relation avec la ressource. Nous montrons d'abord qu'une approche globale ne peut reposer uniquement sur une strat…
This dissertation provides a partial explanation for transience in Jubail Industrial City (JIC) in Saudi Arabia despite abundant housing and employment opportunities. A quantitative analysis of a self-administered questionnaire sample of 540 JIC employees revealed that five comm…
Ecotourism, or nature tourism, has received substantial support from the conservation and development communities as a mechanism for achieving local conservation and development goals. The government of Indonesia realizes that tourism industry prospects will continue to grow str…
The purpose of this study was to explore the construction and implementation of Indianapolis' urban growth strategy and to assess its impact on the local employment and wage structure. An analytical case study encompassing the years from 1960 to 1990, was developed to provide an…
Past local development practices in developing countries have relied heavily on government and external assistance, producing projects that are unsustainable locally and creating a cycle of dependence. Financial crises in the developing world have worsened the situation by limit…
In the aftermath of the succession of abortive planning schemes and the indiscriminate destruction of war (1975-1991), it is the self-inflicted pattern of destruction that has caused the most damage to the urban fabric of Beirut, Lebanon: the reconstruction process itself. Throu…
The issue of income distribution and inequality lies in the heart of development literature. This study has examined the structure of household expenditure and income in Egypt between the late 1950s and the early 1990s. The data employed are sourced from the five household budge…
This study investigates the workings of the informal housing market and the ways house building is facilitated and financing obtained among lower-income households in a metropolitan area experiencing exploding population growth and decentralization. In capturing the dynamics of …
A key element in urban transit planning is the ability to predict how passengers will behave for a given level of supply (i.e for a given network configuration with fixed frequencies and operating rules). This thesis presents a descriptive, dynamic model that best produces the r…
This dissertation has two fundamental purposes. First, it attempts to expand our understanding of housing policy by linking it explicitly to the way in which nation-states develop; and, second, to do this by exploring a neglected realm of housing study, namely, the Arab Middle E…
This study examines the historical circumstances and philosophical foundations of American water resource development plans for the Jordan River Valley. Between 1860 and 1970, Americans proposed water resource development plans for the Jordan River Valley. Inherent in each of th…
This thesis is a qualitative analysis of the Winnipeg Credit Circle program from a feminist perspective. The Credit Circle program is a Community Economic Development (CED) strategy, based on the peer lending model developed by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. The program compris…
Today the argument that environmental degradation will reduce future benefits from economic activities is well accepted. Many countries currently consider improvement in environmental quality an integral part of their overall national objectives. For developing countries, howeve…
This dissertation examines Meskhetian Turk refugees' conception of home as a way of investigating repatriation, the dominant discourse in global policy and theory for managing refugees. Repatriation is considered ideologically and in policy making to be the preferred “durable” s…
The convergence of public and professional support behind the concept of sustainable development has raised it to the level of a new orthodoxy in international development policy. Despite this broad support, the question of what it means to practice sustainable development is fa…