A cidade tem vindo, com o avançar do tempo, a tornar-se cada vez menos virtuosa. As ansiedades sentidas pelo habitante da metrópole implicam a necessidade de rever o modo como o ser humano interpreta o espaço à sua volta. A completa dissociação do homem da sua envolvente traz da…
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Setúbal é uma cidade com problemas de cheias e inundações decorrentes da sua situação geográfica e é por esse motivo que procuram-se alternativas para amenizar e proteger a cidade contra os riscos. Esta área foi alvo de vários planos que procuraram resolver os problemas, princip…
A infraestrutura ferroviária é um elemento estruturante de uma cidade, promovendo novos territórios urbanos, ao mesmo tempo, fragmentando os tecidos. O conceito transformação, a partir dos processos evolutivos dos tecidos urbanos e da infraestrutura como fragmentação e continuid…
Background: Road Traffic Injuries (RTIs) are a major public health problem, especially in developing countries. Iran has the highest mortality rates from RTIs in the world. Community-based participatory program development is a promising approach in the developed world for reduc…
This dissertation comprises three chapters which cover two main topics. The first chapter provides a study on the quality of life of cities in Senegal, and the last two chapters analyze the effects of the adoption of value-added taxation on manufacturing firms in Ethiopia. Rapid…
Vegetation plays an important role in regulating the health of urban ecosystems (Sanders, 2004; Jim, 2004). Riparian zones, parks, nature reserves, and other forms of urban vegetation help minimize atmospheric and hydrologic pollution and reduce the urban heat island effect (Wen…
This study examines the leadership-styles of Egyptian city administrators and the impact of those leadership styles on the functioning of their respective cities. The study concentrates on three new Egyptian cities, 10th of Ramadan, 6th of October, and 15th of May, and discusses…
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…
The current study provided insight into the practice of market orientation of small and medium-sale industries (SMIs). Educational level and entrepreneurial behavior were proposed to be important variables in the implementation of market orientation. Market orientation is a stra…
Pyrotechnology was part of everyday life for the Indus people of the third millennium BCE. Through my surface surveys at the urban site of Harappa and from excavations, we see that craft production took place throughout the city, not primarily in a single ‘quarter’. There is als…
This thesis argues for the significance of urban resilience in sustainable urban development as well as for the necessity for practitioners to engage with this new emerging concept. It does so with a theoretical contribution to the definition of urban resilience, and with case s…
This research contributes to the debate about the impacts of ICTs on the business of local government. It conceptualises the city as a site of local governance where ICTs have an impact on the social, political and economic complexities. Indeed, the starting point of this resear…
This research has been carried out as part of a collaborative doctoral award with partners Spike Island Art and Design Centre and University of the West of England. It employs a mixed methods approach, including participatory action research, reflexive practice and semi-structur…
In recent years, the ‘right to the city’ has emerged as a key concept and practice amongst both academics and social movements around which to organise a response to the crisis of Fordist production and political representation. In Spain this response has taken to the streets, w…
The World Health Organization (WHO) 'age-friendly city' framework has been adopted by an increasing number of cities around the world as a key strategy to respond to the needs of their ageing population. Starting with 33 cities in 2006, the membership of the Global Network of Ag…
The Child Friendly Cities is a concept for making cities friendly for all children especially in UN member countries that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (i.e., all except the United States) through municipal action. This idea is particularly important fo…
This dissertation addresses the problem of the development of cities in Upper Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.E. I investigate these cities through their settlement patterns and urban plans. I argue that these cities were not planned or organic, but exhibited degrees of …
This research tested the hypothesis that a latent construct of quality of life (QOL) in Israel is predictable from key socioeconomic and environmental variables associated with land use across 45 cities. Data were acquired from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the Intern…
This dissertation is a comparison of the book of Ezekiel with the well-known city lament genre of ancient Mesopotamia. Nine shared features are analyzed and explained. These features derive from the work of Dobbs-Allsopp 1 and his comparison of biblical Lamentations with city la…