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Akademisk avhandling--Stockholm. / "Särtryck ur Geografiska annaler nr 4, 1964." Includes bibliographical references.

This research investigated the relationship of predisposing attributes of preretirees to the perceived importance of locational preferences during the first ten years of retirement. Multiple regression analyses and a Chi-square test were used to determine if seven predisposing attributes were related to ten locational preferences. Data were analyzed from a age-stratified random sample of 1003 preretirees age 40-65 in the three western states of Idaho, Oregon, and Utah. The data were collected in a mail survey in 1990 by the Western Regional Agricultural Experiment Station Committee (W-176). Gender, education, and income were significantly related to respondents' perceived importance of low cost of living. Females, individuals with lower income, and those with less education indicated a higher perceived importance for low cost of living. Gender and income were significantly related to respondents' perceived importance of employment opportunities. Employment opportunities were more important for females and individuals with lower income. Older respondents and females indicated a greater importance for convenience and care amenities. Older respondents, females, and respondents who had not moved, placed more importance on close proximity to family. Females and respondents with higher levels of education indicated greater importance for personal enrichment opportunities. The perceived importance of recreation was greater for males, younger respondents, and respondents with higher income and education. As age increased, the perceived importance for warm temperatures increased. Health was significantly related to perceived importance of accessible medical facilities, but there was no significant difference in health status and desired types of medical services. The findings of this study may assist policy makers, community planners, and the business sector in understanding the heterogeneous nature of the aging population. It may also assist in responsive long-range planning in accommodating future elderly. / Graduation date: 1994

Thesis--University of Florida, 1975. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

La ville de Calais est chaque année un lieu de transit pour plusieurs milliers de touristes qui se rendent en Angleterre. Mais c’est aussi, depuis plus de 20 ans, un lieu d’immobilité pour des personnes migrantes. La thèse part de cette situation de frontière pour analyser les luttes concernant l'allocation des places aux migrants dans la ville et dans l'espace national. À la croisée des travaux des border studies et de ceux de la géographie sociale, ce travail analyse le renvoi des migrants au dehors des territoires nationaux anglais et français et la mise en scène à Calais d'une "frontière fermée" et d'une "frontière vide". Il examine le décalage entre cette mise en scène et les vécus et les pratiques de la frontière, à savoir la persistance des passages des migrants vers l'Angleterre et l'installation dans la durée de campements sur le littoral. En s'intéressant plus particulièrement aux pouvoirs publics locaux, aux collectifs de riverains, aux associations de commerçants et aux associations de soutien aux migrants, la thèse permet également d’appréhender les luttes locales autour de la place faite aux migrants dans Calais et questionne la manière dont ces luttes travaillent à produire des frontières dans la ville. Cette recherche explore enfin les processus qui sous-tendent la mise à l'écart des personnes migrantes de la ville et des territoires nationaux anglais et français par l'analyse de la construction de l'altérité migrante. Elle s’achève par l’étude des processus de subjectivation par lesquels ces personnes font avec et contre les places et les identités qui leur sont assignées. / The city of Calais is a crossing point for thousands of tourists going to England. In the last two decades, it has also become a territory of immobility and stagnation for migrants. Examining different ways of constantly being inside and outside, this thesis analyzes the birth of struggles for a place in the city, those of migrants in the city of Calais.Working at the intersection between border-based studies and social geography, it highlights different situations of being constantly expelled outside the national territory, those of France and England. In Calais, this phenomenon stages the formation of a "closed border" and an "empty border". However, within this framework of expulsion and rejection, migrants lived experiences and practices at the borders have not been without persistence. Migrants continue to cross the French borders. On the long run, their persistence produces the settlement of migrant camps on the French coastline. Examining the implication of different actors in the governance and the management of this population at different levels of scale, this study explores the birth of local struggles around a place for the migrants, fundamental to the understanding of the production of borders within the city. Lastly, it analyzes policies that underlie the exclusion of migrants in the city and in national territories thus leading to the construction of the "other, the migrant". It studies the "everyday acts of resistance" of those persons through which and with which emerges this "Other, the migrant".

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The purpose of this study is to examine the nature and extent of housing demand in Metropolitan Vancouver attributable to people over the age of fifty-five. This is to be done in order to verify whether or not the private development of a specified retirement village in Vancouver would be financially feasible and prove to be a profitable investment. In this study, a retirement village is defined to be a planned, low density development of permanent buildings designed to house "active" adults over the age of fifty-five and equipped to provide a wide range of services and leisure activities. This concept of a retirement village is distinct from the many housing developments for the elderly initiated by different non-profit organizations in Canada. The body of this paper involves three broad areas of study, each interrelated. These include an analysis of the potential market, the selection of a suitable location, and an examination of the financial implications of such a development. In order to understand the nature of the problem, it was necessary to make considerable use of research findings regarding the habits and the needs of the elderly. In addition to this, the characteristics of many of the retirement villages in the United States fitting our definition, were examined. Many features common to most of these villages were incorporated in the general design of the village proposed in this study. Initially, the market analysis involves consideration of the general housing demand and supply situation in Metropolitan Vancouver. Particular reference is then made to the characteristics of the elderly and the part they play in total housing demand. Selection of a suitable location for the proposed village is made on the basis of a number of criteria previously formulated. The financial analysis involves estimates of capital cost, operating expenses and revenues, and net cash flows. From these, expected equity yields are then calculated under various assumptions regarding the cost of debt capital, the retention period, and the reversion value. The results of these analyses indicate that Metropolitan Vancouver holds considerable market potential for the development of a retirement village of the type proposed in the study. While there are many feasible locations in Vancouver for the village, the city of White Rock meets the stated criteria adequately and is suggested as the ideal location. The expected profitability of the proposed development is not easily stated as it is dependent upon a number of assumptions. Yields on equity indicate a wide range of possibilities showing the village to be unprofitable under some assumptions and extremely profitable under others. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

The purpose of this paper is devoted to investigating some fundamental properties of valuations and places.

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La recherche développée s’inscrit dans un contexte marqué par une actualité, française, riche de débats en matière de gouvernance portuaire. Ces débats sont relatifs à la comparaison entre un supposé « modèle » français et un supposé « modèle hanséatique ». La réflexion s’est articulée autour de l’identification de territoires portuaires au sein de la rangée nord-ouest européenne et des interactions entre les acteurs coexistant au sein de ces places portuaires : les entreprises privées et les autorités portuaires. Les généralités dégagées des analyses de terrain ont permis de mettre en évidence deux résultats majeurs concernant les formes de gouvernance portuaire : la nature des interactions entre les parties prenantes et les modalités de gouvernance. L’étude comparée entre les ports a conduit à dire que les rapports sociaux qui s’instaurent au fil du temps sont spécifiques à chaque place portuaire et concourent à la construction d’une identité propre à chaque territoire. Une gouvernance équilibrée et viable est le fruit de compromis permanents. Cela donne lieu à la création d’espaces décisionnels collectifs formels ou informels. La thèse s’intéresse aux mécanismes institutionnels et relationnels. Ainsi, la gouvernance est un ensemble de mécanismes qui aboutissent au résultat de la bonne entente entre les parties prenantes permettant l’équilibre dans la prise de décision concernant les affaires publiques. Pour élargir le propos, l’exercice du pouvoir au sein des places portuaires est une question sous-jacente de l’étude de la gouvernance. La thèse a posé clairement la question suivante : qui gouverne effectivement les places portuaires de la rangée nord-ouest européenne ? / The research takes place in the French context which is full of discussions as port governance is concerned. Those debates concern the comparison between a supposed French “shape” and a supposed Hanseatic “shape”. The questioning deals with the identification of port territories in the Northern Range and the interactions between stakeholders coexisting into port places: private companies and port authorities. Main items that stand out from interviews with stakeholders, shown two main results to understand port governance: the nature of interactions between stakeholders and the terms of governance. Compared study between ports permit to say that social interactions established day by day are specifics to each port place and contribute to the construction of an own identity to each territory. A balanced governance is the result of constant compromises that leads to the creation of collective spaces formal and unformal to take decisions. The thesis is focused on institutional and relational mechanisms. Thus, governance is a set of mechanisms which lead to the result of goodwill between stakeholders and permit the balance into the decision taking concerning public affairs. In order to develop our purpose, the study of governance permits to question the exercise of power in port places. The thesis clearly ask the following question: who truly govern port places of the Northern Range?