The thesis examines the role of heritage values in urban transformation in contemporary London. Two cases of urban redevelopment are explored in detail: the No. 1 Poultry redevelopment in the City of London and the Market redevelopment in Spitalfields. The particular concern is how heritage values have a multitude of expressions and can serve a variety of differentially empowered interests. This diverse, and complex manifestation of the heritage impulse is explored through the thematic tension of Making Monuments and Imagining Communities. The study is located in a revised Marxist approach to cultural studies. It attempts to extend the critique of the current popular interest in the past and also the understanding of how culture and capital intersect in urban processes. The study has a number of distinctive methodological features including the reliance on a two case approach and the attention to contextualized discursive practices. The thesis concludes by examining the consequences of the 'hegemony of heritage' in contemporary urban redevelopment and particularly in relation to power in the city and the understanding of the intersection between culture and capital.

Built space In Yemen is observed through the forms taken from the earliest phases of the process of building and dwelling In an agricultural territory to the Increasingly complex expressions of settling and developing urban structures, before and after the Republican Revolution of 1962. The Revolution is seen as a turning point in building methods and attitudes; and the twenty years that followed the consolidation of the Republican regime in 1970 exuberantly illustrate the results of the country’s consequent exposure to an industrial culture hitherto unknown. The manifestations of pre-Revolution times and those taking shape in the subsequent twenty years are approached from parallel points of view. The later period, however, includes not only a study of built form but also the declared intentions for planning growth and conservation within the environment as a whole. Disruption appears as a consequence of cultural change and the mitigation of its effect as a government responsibility. Consolidated forms of domestic architecture are studied and a basic distribution pattern of regional variations is proposed. New approaches in the process of building may be creating original idioms and radicalising economic and stylistic differences between the urban and the rural contexts. An attempt is made to identify meaningful trends.

Capital movement of foreign direct investment (FDI) as both a causative and consequential feature of economic globalisation has emerged as an influential factor of urban growth. It is also the main vehicle of China's global integration. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the impact of FDI on urban planning and the transformation of large cities in China and elsewhere in the world. / This research is devoted to investigating the urban impact of globalisation, focusing on impact of FDI and using Shanghai for case study. It theoretically integrated the global urban network with the theories of FDI: the 'OLI' and investment development path (IDP) and provided the first empirical insight into the intra-urban location of different forms of FDI and the way that FDI, urban planning and local social-economic factors have together reshaped the city. It advances the current understanding of the urban impact of global forces, previously confined to either the macro-economic level of a city of the micro-economic level of foreign firms, as well as the internal restructuring of China's large cities as a result of global integration. / An historical approach has been applied to discern the relationships between the political and economic context and the urban planning agenda, highlighting the features of socialist urban planning and the strategies adopted to pursue and respond to global integration. / The features that direct the location of FDI are discerned and discussed in terms of the interaction between global and local factors. The location of FDI and the consequential urban transformation of the city is graphically illustrated and discussed. Case studies explain further the interplay between FDI and urban planning as well as the consequential growth patterns. / Shanghai has changed substantially with the growing proliferation of FDI, particularly since the city has become the focus of China adopting an open door policy in the 1990s. The land market and other tertiary industries have been opened to foreign investors. The mega FDI-oriented planning project of Pudong has also been undertaken. The role of FDI as both a developer and consumer has been very influential in directing the physical growth, breaking with previous patterns established by centralised control. The location of service FDI has been shaped by the market and has dramatically concentrated on the inner city. Manufacturing FDI, facilitated by preferential policies, has focused on suburban industrial parks designated by governments. / With the differential concentration of FDI in different areas, the socialist effort to homogenise the social and spatial arrangement of the inner city has been disrupted. The Comprehensive Metropolitan Plan for the city's development between 1982 and 2000 was undermined by conflicting interests between different levels of governments, particularly local government eager for foreign investment. The old CBD, the new planned regions facilitated by preferential policies and areas to facilitate FDI in the inner city have emerged as office centres both to extend China's global links and to cater to foreign interests. In doing so, planning proposals in these regions have often been undermined. The suburbs have been industrialised by increasing foreign and domestic manufacturing activities. The previous expansion of urban districts has replaced by the designation of Special Economic Zone with planned FDI-oriented themed parks in Pudong and newly designated urban districts scattered with industrial parks. / Foreign development interests have often called the tune in the transformation of the city. While foreign investors have sought certainty under the urban planning regime, planning itself has been undermined. Planning innovations have been implemented only to the extent that they are congruent with interests of FDI. The harmonising of global and local interests has become the main objective of urban planning into an increasingly invidious position, as it has more and more been called upon to support development interests of global sectors while remaining a legitimate force in the shaping of the city. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2003.

Thesis (M.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009. / Title from PDF title page; viewed on July 1, 2009. "June 2009." "In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree [of] Master of City and Regional Planning in the College of Architecture." "Presented to the faculty of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo." Major professor: Adrienne Greve, Ph.D. Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-28).

Project (M.P.P.) - Simon Fraser University, 2007. / Theses (Master of Public Policy Program) / Simon Fraser University. Senior supervisor: Kennedy Stewart -- Master of Public Policy Program. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Barney Warf, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Dept. of Geography. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 14, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains x, 120 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (MEngSc)--University of Melbourne, School of Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-123)

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / Problem: The problem of this dissertation is to relate ethical issues in modern city planning in the United States and the emerging context of choice in urban society to a systematic ethical framework which can serve as a normative foundation for responsible planning. Method: The dissertation is developed in three stages: first, an historical study of the development of ethical issues in city planning in the United States; secondly, an analysis of the context of choice in contemporary urban society; finally, the development of a systematic ethical framework for urban planning which explores the emerging coherence between Talcott Parsons' theory of action, Edgar S. Brightman's formulation of the moral laws, the idea of the responsible society, and contemporary discussions of planning theory [TRUNCATED]

Magister Administrationis - MAdmin / This study investigates how political dynamics impacted on service delivery in urban areas of Zimbabwe in general and, SPECIFICALLY, in the cities of Harare, Bulawayo, Masvingo and Mutare. The problematic of urban governance in these cities has been marked by contestation, confusion and change for a range of reason which would seem to be associated with issues of planning and management of urban areas, infrastructure such as provision and maintenance of roads, housing, public transport and water and sanitation. Consequently, these urban governance contestations almost led to the collapse of most if not all, urban functions and services in the aforementioned urban areas. That Zimbabwe is suffering from a crisis of governance and public service delivery for decades is not in doubt. In this thesis, I argue that whilst much attention has been given to state governance, it is at the local governance level where the impacts of the crisis are more severe. Why at the local governance level? Local government is mandated to deliver directly or indirectly key human development services to citizens. Inevitably, urban governance is an important determinant of urban services delivery. Urban governance takes place within a wider governance and political context. Post-independent urban Zimbabwe was dominated by the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) until the turn of the millennium. When the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) began dominating urban local authorities, urban governance signaled an era marked by contestation, confusion and change. Subsequent urban governance political dynamics had profound impacts on service delivery.