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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A planned risk? : an examination of the effectiveness of risk assessment and communication in the waste incinerator planning process

Snary, Christopher David January 2000 (has links)
No description available.
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Relocation and high-rise living : a study of Singapore's public housing

Tai, Ching Ling January 1986 (has links)
Public housing in Singapore is one of the most significant development programmes in the state. It has been centrally planned and implemented by the Government not only to tackle housing problems and rebuild the decaying inner city areas, but also to restructure Singapore society in terms of the visions of the power elite. This study attempts to examine the social and political implications of relocation and public housing in Singapore, and to analyse the difficulties faced by and the impact of relocation on individuals and families from the various constrasting groups of relocatees, with an emphasis on problems of economic hardship, adaptation to high-rise living, and neighbourliness in the public housing estates. To achieve this task, three types of material have been used, viz. official data, empirical material from previous studies, and empirical data and information collected during fieldwork. The fieldwork comprises a sample survey of 1,200 households and an in-depth study of 27 relocated families. The thesis consists of three parts. The first part reviews the literature on relocation and public housing and the conceptual framework employed in their study. The second part examines the policies underlying and the salient social and political aspects of relocation and public housing in Singapore. The final part analyses the data and information obtained from the sample survey and the in-depth study. The findings of the present study show that while the Singapore Government has made some impressive quantitative achievements of its public housing programme, some of its original objectives may never be fully achieved. Two of the eight hypotheses deduced from the assumptions and observations of the previous studies are refuted by data obtained from the present study. Five of them are however supported, and one is inconclusive. Some sensitive issues relating to public housing in Singapore, which have significant social and political effects and yet are usually avoided by most researchers, are also analysed and discussed in the light of their policy implications.
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Physical planning system and the physical spatial structure of the human settlement : the case of Palestine from late 19th century to 1994 with special reference to Tulkarm city, West Bank

Mahrok, Abdel Rahman Abdel Hadi January 1995 (has links)
Human settlements are the basic constituents of the historical spatial organisation of society and its physical environment. The human settlement is composed of several elements which together form an overall system. These elements are the physical environment, society, the spatial structure and planning. The physical spatial structure of the settlement is an important framework within which other systems of the settlement exist and function. The physical spatial structure of the human settlement consists of five main elements; central area, neighbourhoods, the fringe, open land beyond the fringe and road system. The physical spatial structure of the settlement has always been affected by the decisions of people who live within it. These decisions constitute the physical planning system of the human settlement. The physical planning system aims to control and manage the physical spatial structure of the settlement. The physical planning system, in this respect, is seen as the state intervention in the control and management of the physical spatial structure of the settlement. The physical planning system is composed of two main elements; institutional arrangements and instrumental representations. The important question is what relationship does exist between the physical planning system and the physical spatial structure of the settlement? This research aims to investigate this problem by considering the physical planning system in Palestine and its relationship with the physical spatial structures of Palestinian settlements from the late 19th century to 1994. The importance of Palestine in this investigation depends on the fact that, within this century alone, Palestine had four different physical planning systems. These systems have drastically affected the physical spatial structures of Palestinian settlements. This research is based on the examination of the elements of each physical planning system in Palestine and the way by which they have affected the physical spatial structures of Palestinian settlements. A detailed case study is provided for the city of Tulkarm in order to illustrate the actual effects of the physical planning system in Palestine on elements of the physical spatial structure of this settlement. Within the above theoretical framework and empirical investigations, this research is an important attempt to achieve more insights into models and theories of both the physical planning system and the physical spatial structure of the settlement.
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Property investment under an economic structural adjustment programme : the case of the Harare Central Business District office development

Munjoma, Thomas January 1999 (has links)
In Zimbabwe, the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) was introduced in 1991, at which time, intense office development activities started in the Harare City Centre. The fundamental aim of this study, therefore, was to identify and explain the driving forces behind office development activities in the Harare City Centre during ESAP (1991-5). Effort was made to reveal the effects of ESAP on the office development process. Three hypotheses from neo-classical (supply and demand), Marxist structuralism (circuits of capital) and structuration (structure and agency) perspectives were proposed to identify and explain the forces driving office development in the Harare City Centre during ESAP. Twenty-four development sites formed the population of properties identified for the study, of which six were selected for detailed examination. This research established that during the early phases of ESAP, demand for office space was fairly robust. With further property development, full occupation of the new space could be achieved only through tenant relocations and 'sweetheart' deals to seduce tenants into occupying new offices. Direct foreign participation in the Harare office development was not significant at all. That was mainly due to a combination of prohibitive legislation relating to foreign investment in property, and the failure of Zimbabwe to compete as an attractive investment destination for global capital. However, important structural changes such as planning policy and practice, reduction of the prescribed asset ratios of institutional investments, increases in inflation and so forth, were identified. Historically, institutional investors were underweight in property and, therefore, used the opportunity to select properties consistent with their long term objectives. It was concluded that the structure and agency approach presented an explanation of the Harare Office development superior to that of the other perspectives. Although ESAP facilitated the procurement of world class facilities and finishes, it had negative implications for the construction industry through high inflation, increases in building costs, the closure of firms and general economic decline.
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Saving Spitalfields : the politics of opposition to redevelopment in East London

Woodward, Rachel January 1991 (has links)
This thesis is an examination of the opposition to the redevelopment of a fruit and vegetable wholesale market in Spitalfields, east London. I argue that such opposition has not received the attention it deserves in the literature on urban redevelopment. The thesis examines the origins and establishment of the Campaign to Save Spitalfields from the Developers, and examines its discourse in order to ascertain where the roots of the Campaign's opposition lay. After outlining the methodology used in the research, the history of the market is examined within the context of the Spitalfields area. Previous plans for redevelopment are discussed and attention then focusses on plans put forward in 1986. The role of the City of London Corporation, the government and the Spitalfields Development Group are explored and stress is laid on the ways in which these three institutions portrayed redevelopment as a mechanism for inner city renewal, for the benefit of all interested parties. The Campaign to Save Spitalfields from the Developers is then studied, looking at its make-up and its arguments over the impact of redevelopment on Spitalfields. Its origins within the local Labour Party and the local voluntary sector are traced and the influence of these bodies on the Campaign in terms of its arguments and ideas on redevelopment are illustrated. The ways in which the Campaign represented redevelopment in the area are then discussed. The portrayal of Spitalfields as a multicultural community area and immigrant area are discussed, and the images the Campaign constructed of the City of London and of the likely face of Spitalfields examined. I argue that these representations are important in elucidating a reason for the Campaign's opposition. I then examine these representations of Spitalfields in the light of the Campaign's claims to representativeness. I examine the ways in which the Campaign dealt with the emergence of another group in the area, and indicate what I understand to be the sources of the Campaign's discomfort with this group. I conclude by arguing for further study of opposition movements that emerge to protest against urban redevelopment, and by arguing for an intensive qualitative research methodology.
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Modelling interactions between bus operations and traffic flow

Silva, Paulo Cesar Marques January 2001 (has links)
No description available.
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Conservation and development : the institutionalisation of community conservation in Tanzania National Parks

Bergin, Patrick January 1995 (has links)
No description available.
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Landscape ecology and sustainable land use planning in East Suffolk

Aalders, Ingrid H. January 1999 (has links)
No description available.
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Mode choice analysis for commodity transport in Korea

Nam, Ki Chan January 1992 (has links)
No description available.
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Government and the development of a specialised urban system : the case of the Royal Naval dockyard towns in Great Britain

Harris, Trevor Michael January 1982 (has links)
Since their inception in the sixteenth century the Royal Naval dockyard towns have, under the control of central Government, combined to form a military-urban system. The dominance of dockyard establishments in the economy of adjacent urban settlements has resulted in the system being comprised entirely of 'specialised' towns and, as the major employer of labour in these towns, the actions of Government have dominated the development and affairs of these townships. The system has been subject to a variety of influences, many of which have impacted on the dockyards and townships via a decision-making hierarchy within Government. In its role as urban manager the policies and decisions of Government have largely been determined by the demands of national defence. The specific aims of this dissertation are detailed in Chapter 1 and it is not the intention to duplicate them here, but, in general terms this study is concerned with the impact of Government on two levels of this military-urban system. Firstly it is concerned with the various influences and processes which have determined Government policy toward the dockyard system in respect of the origins, maintenance and operational use of the system. Secondly, consideration of the dockyard town is undertaken in regard to the internal social and morphological patterns of the dockyard towns. The organisation of the thesis reflects these general. aims and falls into two parts. The first six chapters examine the macro influences and processes working on the military-urban system, while the following chapters consider the impact of these processes on the urban and social structure of the dockyard towns. The study is concluded by the presentation of a typology of the development and internal structure of the dockyard town.

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