Dissertations / Theses: 'Cities and towns'

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Shattuck, David Marks Corey. "Cities beyond." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3614.

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Glock, Birgit. "Stadtpolitik in schrumpfenden Städten : Duisburg und Leipzig im Vergleich /." Wiesbaden : VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/513898409.pdf.

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Held, Jay Allen. "Foundations of a biblical theology of city." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Shattuck, David. "Cities Beyond." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3614/.

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Chung, Kwok-wai Andrew. "Urban conservation vs. mega redevelopment : implications to Hong Kong urban designer /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25799538.

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Collins, Miriam A. "Pre-industrial towns--a spatial and functional analysis over time and space : a comparative study of nineteenth century South Australian and medieval Suffolk towns /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc7124.pdf.

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Phegley, Jeff S. "Terrestrial evolution." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1266141.

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Terrestrial Evolution focuses on the destruction of the natural environment by manmade obstructions such as housing developments, strip malls, roads, telephone lines, and utility poles. Each of the paintings address one or more of these aspects of development and communicates ideas of detachment from this seemingly endless process of building. Color, surface texture, composition, and visual imagery were all carefully thought out and planned parts of a complicated process for the communication of ideas on this particular subject matter.My hometown of Carmel, Indiana has been experiencing massive environmental change over the past ten years. Large housing editions and strip malls have been built to accommodate the influx of people moving to this northern suburb of Indianapolis. Land is being sold, bought, zoned, and covered with quickly built homes and strip malls. Once this suburban sprawl has begun, will it stop? How much of the environmental damage it has contributed is reversible?Terrestrial Evolution represents a very personal and visual response to the contemporary state of Carmel's woodlands, wetlands, and wildlife, which are being sacrificed for manmade development.
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Yip, Chiu-wah Regina. "The impact of new town development on urban trees in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21979170.

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Yuen, Wing-yee, and 袁詠儀. "The city in late imperial China and Tokugawa Japan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B2989301X.

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Ge, Qin. "City branding a case study of Beijing /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41548450.

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Chan, K. K. Kylie C., and 陳琪琪. "Uncanny perceptions of urban space in painting and film: a comparison of the works of Edward Hopper and Wong Kar-wai." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38680063.

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Kim, Yul. "Urban dynamics and the role of public policy : an analysis of urban hardship and fiscal institutions." Connect to resource, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1264688900.

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Hildermeier, Manfred. "Bürgertum und Stadt in Russland 1760-1870 rechtliche Lage und soziale Struktur /." Köln : Böhlau, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/13979802.html.

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Tourovets, Alexandre. "Du village à la ville Evolution de l'organisation de l'espace villageois collectif en Syrie - Mésopotamie du VIIème au IVème millénaire /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/43860596.html.

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Simons, Trinity F. "From new towns to eco-towns : transferable lessons in the building of new cities in Great Britain." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78514.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, February 2012.
"September 2010." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
This thesis looks to Great Britain for lessons in building New Towns, with an eye towards the nascent Eco-Towns program. Specifically, three areas in urban design are considered: the employment of the neighborhood unit, the attitude towards green space, and transportation strategy and modal shift.
by Trinity F. Simons.
M.C.P.

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Gayley, Rebekah J. "A radical proposal policy and design to create smaller, smarter cities in the United States /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 153 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619624151&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Cai, Jianming. "Measuring the formation of world cities : the case of Shanghai /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22029989.

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Goddard, Cedrik Christopher. "The question of the Islamic city." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64153.pdf.

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Xie, Liou. "A transitional city the case study of Shenzhen, China, 1980-2005 /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B39557650.

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Ferriter, Erin K. "The sustainability of New Urbanism case studies in Maryland /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 257 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654501521&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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蔡建明 and Jianming Cai. "Measuring the formation of world cities: the case of Shanghai." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31239912.

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Hammer, Brian David. "New urban spaces for a twenty-first century China /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5664.

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Hu, Jiayu. "Designing Hong Kong towards a sustainable urban form : the significance of urban design /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23427218.

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Panneerselvam, A. "Role of small towns and intermediate cities in regional development in India." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388736.

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Bryant, William Patrick. "An exploration of local smart growth initiatives within the United States." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. http://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2007m/bryant.pdf.

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Liang, Changqing. "Morphological transformation of urban districts : a case study of Da-baodao in Qingdao /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37425584.

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Alexander, Katia. "Of poets, paupers and planes tuberculosis in the city /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1327.

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葛欽 and Qin Ge. "City branding: a case study of Beijing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41548450.

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Bosworth, Andrew. "The march of cities : the evolution of a world-city system from 3000 BC - 2000 AD /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10762.

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Gallacci, Caroline. "Planning the city of destiny : an urban history of Tacoma to 1930 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10463.

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Silva, Isabelle Braz Peixoto da. "Vilas de índios no Ceará grande dinâmicas locais sob o diretório pombalino /." Campinas, SP, Brasil : Pontes, 2006. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/74336627.html.

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Sobti, Manu P. "Urban Metamorphosis and Change in Central Asian Cities after the Arab Invasions." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7176.

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This work is a study in urban history, in particular, one that examines a crucial period in the rise and development of large cities and metropolises in the region of Sogdiana within Central Asia, between the seventh and tenth centuries. The primary focus of inquiry is to show the effects of inter-relationships between social change, intense urbanization and religious conversions that occurred within Sogdiana at this time. All of these processes were initiated as a result of the Arab invasions between 625 and 750 A.D. Sogdia or Sogdiana, along with the regions of Bactria and Khwarazm, were incorporated into the Islamic world through the process of conquest that followed these invasions, but once resistance was extinguished and Islam widely accepted among the populace, these regions became among the most vital centers of urban life in the Islamic world. Sogdiana, among these three regions, witnessed the rise, change and unprecedented development of many large metropolises that were distinct in several ways from the cities in other parts of the Islamic world. Traditional cities in the Islamic world further west and south of Central Asia had a dense structure within an encircling wall, and eventually the residential areas were found to extend beyond the wall, only themselves to be eventually protected by another wall. However, in Central Asia yet another further stage of development took place. Here the main administrative functions and markets moved out into this outer residential area and abandoned the central core. This outer area of the city (the rabad) became the locus of political and commercial activity. In due course the process repeated itself - the residential areas overflowing beyond the walls of the rabad, only themselves to be surrounded by a third outer wall. In this way the Central Asian city developed into a distinct type, markedly different from cities further west and south.

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Mahtab-uz-zaman, Quazi Mohd. "Consolidation as a response to urban growth : a case in Dhaka /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25800620.

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Gan, Tong. "Living with water : traditional settlements of Chinese water towns." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64112.pdf.

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Rice, Colin C. "Factors contributing to frequency of municipal annexation among medium-sized southern U.S. cities /." View online, 2008. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/281/.

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Eilers, Claude. "Roman patrons of Greek cities /." Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0615/2003276954-d.html.

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Lamorgese, Andrea. "Essays on the economics of cities." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211602.

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Chan, K. K. Kylie C. "Uncanny perceptions of urban space in painting and film : a comparison of the works of Edward Hopper and Wong Kar-wai." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38680063.

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Britz, Etienne Francois. "Emergence in the self-organizing city : a mult-functional intervention." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11162007-152819.

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Yu, Mengya, and 郁梦雅. "To analyze urban sprawl using remote sensing : a case study of London, Ontario, Canada." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/195105.

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Urban growth is one type of urban development. Many Canadian cities have dramatically evolved over the past twenty years. Along with the rapid growth of urban region, urban sprawl has become one of the most significant issues challenging most cities. Remote sensing techniques are frequently used to analyse urban growth and sprawl. In this study, three temporal satellite images, which were taken at 1990, 2000, 2010 respectively, are classified using software ENVI to determine the urban extent and growth pattern of the city of London, Ontario, Canada. Statistical models including Shannon‘s entropy and Pearson‘s chi-square are applied to calculate the degree of sprawl and degree of freedom of London. Moreover, the overall degree of goodness of the urban growth is calculated as a promotion of the former two statistic models towards the analysis of urban growth. The results shows London is sprawled in the past 20 years (from 1990 to 2010) with a decreasing degree of freedom and a moderate degree of goodness of urban growth. Apart from mathematical analysis, policies that have been implemented since 1990s to curb urban sprawl in London are reviewed. Key factors that impact the urban growth pattern of London are identified through reviewing. It is found that 1993‘s annexation, the creation of Urban Growth Boundary and changed political intentions are the main factors. By analyze these factors, it also help to explain the results derived from mathematical models. Brownfield redevelopment, residential intensification, smart moves are regarded as the most important strategies to deal with urban sprawl carried out by London‘s local government. It also witnesses a great impact of policies initiated by the province on a mid-sized municipality such as London. It is argued that municipalities gain only limited political autonomy and administrative capacity. Recommendations are addressed specifically for the related strategies for further promotions.
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Urban Planning and Design
Master
Master of Science in Urban Planning

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Douglas, Jake Brandon. "Globalization of the Chinese city : a comparative study on the prospects of a global city in China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/199859.

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China has experienced unprecedented growth since the open door policy began at the end of the 1970s and is currently in position as the world’s second largest economy in terms of gross domestic product. Much of the academic community already considers China a dominant economic power and potentially the most important nation state in terms of its current and future role in the global economy. In addition, the last 50 years has produced a plethora of research on the importance of cities and on their profound economic contribution under persistent international trends of globalization. One prime example of the culmination and prominence of this research, Saskia Sassen’s The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, delineates specific characteristics of true global cities, citing the three titled cities as the only prime examples in existence. Based on the economic prominence of China as a nation-state, this dissertation aims to view China’s prominent contemporary cities through the lens of Sassen’s global city alongside other relevant and related theories and data in order to determine whether a true global city exists today within Mainland China. It then evaluates the current status of Chinese cities with respect to the observed effects of globalization and on the hypothetical path to true global city status. A number of theories relating to Chinese cities are developed in this respect, including the ‘shared spotlight’ theory and the ‘polarity of global city functions’ theory. Finally, an attempt is made to directly associate the distinct global economic roles and developmental paths of Beijing and Shanghai to the unique political and economic policy and action demonstrated by the Chinese Communist Party. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis, the conclusion is drawn that Chinese cities, specifically Beijing and Shanghai, have taken divergent paths and play very distinct economic roles, as opposed to showing the natural agglomeration of global city functions one would expect to find in a world economic power under an increasingly globalizing world economy. Additionally, an associated conclusion is drawn that the unique developmental paths and the resulting distinct roles can be directly associated with actions and policies of the Chinese Communist Party.
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China Development Studies
Master
Master of Arts in China Development Studies

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Xu, Yinong. "The city in space and time : development of the urban form and space of Suzhou until 1911." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15758.

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The city of Suzhou boasts a history that begins in 514 B.C. The development of this city's urban form in the imperial era (221 B.C.-A.D. 1911) is regarded as a continuation of its construction as the state capital of Wu in the sixth century B.C. This thesis presents a study of two aspects of the history of this very important city. It deals firstly with the cosmological symbolism of the earliest city as systematised by authors of mainly Eastern Han (A.D. 25-220) documents to express the historical struggle for survival between Wu and the state of Yue, and secondly, with how the city of Suzhou, as a physical structure, developed both in reality and in theory in the subsequent two millennia. The main purpose of the study is not to produce a comprehensive historiography of this city. Instead, by taking Suzhou as a specific case, it aims at addressing a number of important characteristics of city building and development in pre-modern China, upon which an appropriate approach to studies of the traditional Chinese cities can be based. Two ideas have informed this study. The first is that the city was given form not only by the practices and ideas that derived from its social, economic, and political circumstances, but also by a set of changing values and beliefs that were an integral part of a world view - a characteristic way of both looking at and shaping the world. The pragmatic examination of the city in its various contexts is therefore frequently accompanied by an inquiry into the conceptual realms of the Chinese; and, for the purpose of this study, the way in which the city was perceived by the Chinese in history is taken as no less important than what the city really looked like. The second idea is that cities in pre-modern China were profoundly differentiated in space and time, and no one ideal construct can suffice to explain their varied and complex urban histories. On the other hand, it has been taken in this thesis as axiomatic that common elements existed in these cities so that they were culturally Chinese. Thus, Suzhou is treated as a Chinese city in the sense that it was firmly embedded in the urban context of pre-modern China. This study begins with a description of the historic and cultural background against which Suzhou rose and declined. The main body of the thesis is composed of three parts. First, it demonstrates in what specific way the city was believed to have been built as a cosmic centre, as perceived by Eastern Han scholars. This is a symbolic theme that may have combined elements drawn from the local traditions and the culture of Central China at the time of the building, involving the cosmological synthesis of the Han. It later came to be viewed as a source of historical authority and continued to inform the city's further development. Second, since a fundamental change in the nature of China's city system occurred from the Qin (221-206 B.C.) unification on, the thesis discusses a number of general, disputable issues concerning city building and development in the imperial era. These issues arise from three areas, namely the nature of regional and local cities, the transformation of urban space in time, and the urban-rural relationship. This part provides a larger historic and theoretical context of urban development, in which the investigation of the transformation of the city of Suzhou is placed The third part concentrates on the development of Suzhou in the imperial era, especially from the late ninth century on, when its important growth started. A number of issues are discussed in this part. It demonstrates that the form and size of the city, physically defined by the city walls that had been reconstructed many times, remained basically unchanged at least from 1229 throughout subsequent history, whereas remarkable urban expansion during the late imperial period was not confined by the city walls. It illustrates that the network of city canals functioned as a framework for the spatial organisation of city structures on the one hand, and that its partial decay and the efforts to maintain it in the first half of the Qing period (1644-1911), reflect the enormous economic and demographic pressure on the existing water system on the other. This part shows how the geometrical centre of the city was demoted from being the location of the prefectural offices to a state of dereliction, and how urban space was thereafter transformed into three major districts. It also shows how the form of public urban space was organised, and suggests that the distinctiveness of a few types of buildings in the city was essentially associated with the city walls or wall-like structures, whereas the lack of discernible difference between the forms and styles of Chinese urban and rural buildings was determined by an absence of formal bond between building types and social institutions in the tradition of Chinese architecture. Finally, this part of the thesis describes the manners in which fengshui ideas operated in urban construction. It is argued that the application of fengshui to the city was characteristic of retrospective interpretation at urban level and was probably influential on the physical outcome of building activities at the level of local corporate groups; more complex and volatile situations are likely to have affected the construction projects that fell between these two levels. Some of these features of the city were particular to its own historic development, while others were directly or indirectly determined by, and at the same time, reflected, the factors characteristic of China's urban history in general, such as the nature and traditional Chinese concept of cities, the role of the imperial government, the symbolic meanings of the city walls, and the distinctive urban-rural relationship.

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Velibeyoğlu, Hasibe Özdemir Semahat. "Development trends of single family housing estates in İzmir metropolitan fringe area/." [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2004. http://library.iyte.edu.tr/tezler/master/sehirplanlama/T000478.pdf.

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Tabata, Kayoko. "Città dell'Italia nel VI secolo d.C /." Roma : Bardi, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018627162&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Hailu, Yohannes G. "Growth equilibrium modeling of urban sprawl on agricultural lands in West Virginia." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2726.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2002.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 111 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-111).

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Wang, Haomian. "Visualization techniques for 3D urban environments /." View abstract or full-text, 2009. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?CSED%202009%20WANGH.

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Blankenship, Jeffrey M. "An analysis of municipal financial behavior using the National League of Cities' typology." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/07M%20Dissertations/BLANKENSHIP_JEFFREY_0.pdf.

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Van, Leeuwen Janneke Barbara 1960. "Factors contributing to the growth of Kenyan secondary cities, 1969-1979." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276932.

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The rapid growth of secondary cities in Kenya is explored through an analysis of various factors related to development. Through a shift-share analysis of employment figures it is shown that, while employment expansion and diversification has occurred in some of the secondary cities, this does not fully explain the population growth which has taken place. Road improvements facilitated rural out-migration while perceived employment opportunities encouraged in-migration to smaller urban centers. While these factors do not fully correspond to the growth which has taken place, it is suggested that they do reveal certain growth patterns which are occurring. Finally, it is suggested that the growth of Kenyan secondary cities is a positive step towards a more equitable and efficient spatial distribution of the population and that, through their development, secondary cities can play an important role in diminishing rural-urban differences and unifying Kenya's space economy. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)

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Epting, Shane Ray. "On City Identity and Its Moral Dimensions." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822798/.

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The majority of people on Earth now live in cities, and estimates hold that 60 percent of the world’s cities have yet to be built. Now is the time for philosophers to develop a philosophy of the city to address the forthcoming issues that urbanization will bring. In this dissertation, I respond to this need for a philosophy of the city by developing a theory of city identity, developing some of the theory’s normative implications, illustrating the theory with a case study, and outlining the nature and future of philosophy of the city more generally. Indeed, this dissertation is only a part of my larger project of founding and institutionalizing this new field of both academic and socially-engaged philosophical activity. Throughout the history of the discipline, other areas such a personal identity have received numerous considerations, along with the concept of identity as an abstraction. For example, there is a bounty of research addressing problems pertaining to how objects and people retain an identity over time and claims about identity in general. While one could argue that cities are not any different than any other object, such an account fails to consider that a city’s dynamic nature makes it dissimilar to other things. To illustrate this point, I develop a position called dynamic composition as identity theory that provides a framework for understanding the identity of a city, exhibiting that views within analytic metaphysics are too narrow to apply to all cases. After establishing a concept of city identity, I use an applied mereology to develop a model of city identity that shows how the parts of a city fit together to form a complete city. This model introduces the normative dimension of my project by providing a way to identify how incongruence between a city’s parts can cause problems for residents’ wellbeing. To understand the moral dimensions of infrastructure, I argue that moral theory alone is ill prepared to adequately demonstrate its full range of effects. Yet, instead of developing another moral theory, we can supplement existing moral theories with the concepts of sustainability and resilience thinking to account for the elements that traditional moral systems neglect. I support this view with a detailed account of transportation infrastructure. Namely, I show that current frameworks for assessing transportation infrastructure are inadequate, and employ the method of complex moral assessment developed earlier to make such assessments. Lastly, I show how the research in this dissertation counts as intra-disciplinary research, a new kind of method for philosophical research.

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Binaghi, Maurizio. "The church and the city the quest for Jesus' presence in urban settings /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Cities and towns'

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