As planning and urban-studies graduate students in the United States, we had been taught that the community in which we should strive to live is one that is high density and adheres to more walkability, two of the major tenets that create a more sustainableurban environment. In turn, we ...
Longitudinal Manpower Evaluation Studies. This paper is the first in a series describing the results of the Longitudinal Manpower Study, a national study of four major manpower programs as they ope... Washington,DOO Planning,A Evaluation - National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA ...
(2000) A city that monitors and integrates conditions of all of its critical infrastructures including roads, bridges, tunnels, rails, subways, airports, sea-ports, communications, water, power, even major buildings, can better optimise its resources, plan its preventive maintenance activities, and ...
Both studies indicate that vacant lots can be important locations for habitat conservation in urban areas, particularly when they are part of a larger collection of greenspaces. In combination with managing our yards, parks, and urban farms as quality habitat for plants and animals, conserving vaca...
This article is an assessment of the literature on urban neighborhoods that explores (1) the principal themes in the literature, (2) the problems and limitations posed by this literature, and (3) the major contributions of these studies and their bearing on an agenda for future research. This...
Urban density is a concept used in city planning, urban studies, and related fields to describe the intensity of people, jobs, housing units, total floor area of buildings, or some other measure of human occupation, activity, and development across a defined unit of area. In general terms, ...
Master of Urban Studies vs Urban Planning The crux of urban studies is to understand the lives of city dwellers. Specifically, how residents interact with their environment – physical, economic, racial and otherwise — and how those forces shape societal issues such as affordable housing, quality...
Informing these debates on the multi-functionality of urban agriculture requires an evidence synthesis from existing studies, e.g., based on asystematic review. So far, reviews of urban agriculture have focused on limited aspects. For example,Poulsen et al. (2015)andWarren et al. (2015)investig...
They consider some of the systematic tendencies in decentralised planning decisionmaking, some selected evidence of development outcomes, and some insights from major development case studies. The conclusions highlight the differential influence of planning between different development sectors and the ...
Violence is pronounced in these communities: police, pimps, intimate partners, or goondas (thugs) may abuse the USWs and extricate a major share of their earnings. Not surprisingly, many USWs turn to alcohol during work, resulting in further tensions. Legality: The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) ...