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Cities in the United States have been experiencing a kind of spatial "explosion" over the last two decades. Urban population has been spilling over the defined urban limits and has been converting non-urban land into various types of urban land use. This conversion can be labeled urban sprawl.By and large, all urban centers are attracting populations of younger age groups, men and women of reproducing age. A new housing type is necessary, both to arrest the population's piling up over fringe areas, and to draw people back into the deteriorating central city.High population density and optimal residential laud use are essential if urban sprawl is to be halted. Planned condominium developments which utilize the above elements could be an arresting factor of urban sprawl and satisfy housing needs.Condominium developments in Columbus, Ohio were subjected to the test of the hypothesis that a high degree of resident satisfaction with condominiums would motivate growth of such developments, and hence, arrest urban spatial expansion.The conclusion was that condominiums do satisfy dweller demands and because of this high degree of satisfaction the growth of this form of housing will continue.

This thesis critically examines the creation and development of the concept of the Islamic city in the discourse of twentieth century Orientalism and Islamic studies. Based largely upon the urban theories of Max Weber, French Orientalists working in the first half of the twentieth century developed a standardized and ideal model of the Islamic city. This model remained unchallenged until the late 1950s when Eliyahu Ashtor-Strauss and Claude Cahen began to question some of its fundamental assumptions. The revisionist trend continued into the 1960s and 1970s with the innovative work of Samuel Stern and Ira Lapidus. Contributions from fields outside traditional Oriental studies such as anthropology, sociology, and geography also helped to paint a more complex and diverse picture of the city in Islam. By the 1980s, thanks in part to the influence of Edward Said's book Orientalism, the old French model of the Islamic city was thoroughly discredited. In its place emerged a new understanding of the Islamic city in which scholar increasingly saw Islam as just one of many forces which have helped to shape the urban form. Moreover, cities are increasingly regarded as dynamic and constantly evolving entities, and therefore they can longer be simply represented in idealist and essentialist terms.

Graduation date: 1977

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1914. / Bibliography: p. 73-77. Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Also available in print.

Thesis (MArch(Prof))(Architecture) --University of Pretoria, 2007.

Thesis (M.T.P.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 1974.

Thesis (M.T.P.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 1977.