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Surprisingly little work has examined the role of city marketing in the development and promotion of gated communities. Here, I examine how the municipal government of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico reshaped the town’s spaces, facilitating the emergence of gated communities beginning in the 1980s and continuing today. I argue that, during the last decades, city marketing has been used as a tool by the municipality...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the preferences of individuals for the redevelopment of waterfronts. To this end, the preferences of the citizens of Thessaloniki – Greece for the redevelopment of the port of Thessaloniki have been studied. The study is based on a stratified sample of 360 households and shops of Thessaloniki. The statistical method employed is regression analysis. The findings...
Anthropogenic pressure on the urban environment has recently reached critical levels in numerous conurbations worldwide. In this context, taking specific measures as a response has become a necessity for environmental managers in an effort to confront such pressures and to move towards sustainable development. However, in practice, funding of abatement strategies is often limited and decision-makers...
This paper proposes a new integrated modeling framework that contributes to the evaluation of public facility distribution for spatial equity in urban development. The framework consists of two integrated models—accessibility and mobility—that, based on the gravity model, are integrated as a framework for measuring the relative spatial equities of urban public facilities. They are presented as geographic...
Much work on the influence of colonialism on development in Africa has focused on macro-level indicators of development such as the GNP, GDP and GNI/cap. The study reported here focuses on micro-level indicators, namely access to improved water and sanitation facilities. The impact of colonial tenure on access to improved water and sanitation facilities in African cities is explored. It is revealed...
This paper aims at presenting the development of niche competitiveness within mid-sized French cities. The analysis is based on a data set concerning the growth of high-skilled jobs that reflect metropolitan functions, and which are mainly agglomerated at the top of the urban hierarchy. They are used to approximate the types of coalescence of these functions, from 1990 to 1999, at the level of mid-sized...
The city of Gaborone, like Botswana, the nation of which it is capital, is extraordinary in African terms. Here is a city lacking in mass poverty, extensive squatter settlements or recurrent civil strife: for all appearances, an orderly, affluent urban area. For these reasons, it is an important example of how planning authorities in a developing nation have managed urban growth. Gaborone has had...
Currently, over 65% of Palestinians live in urban areas, exceeding the international urbanization rate of 50%. The Ramallah Governorate is the most rapidly growing governorate within the Palestinian territory. This accelerating urban growth is accompanied by significant pressure on services, employment opportunities, and accommodations. This study aimed at finding sustainable areas for absorbing urban...
Public authorities in many countries around the world are seeking to raise urban densities. Residential densification is particularly important in South Africa because of the colonial and apartheid legacy of sprawling, fragmented, racially divided cities. This paper examines the case for densifying central Cape Town and provides a framework to help deconstruct the concept and explore some of the policy...
This study underscores the importance of adopting integrated parking management policies that ensure not only more rational use of the available parking spaces, evenly balancing supply and demand and bringing in revenues to cover the parking facilities costs, but also the improved attractiveness of alternative transportation modes. Parking supply and demand flows within the UC campus are estimated...
The concept of “healthy city” promotes the physical, mental, social, and environmental well-being of people who live and work in urban areas. Fostering sustainably healthy cities is the prime objective of the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) in India. However, attaining this goal requires establishing priorities, key concerns, strategies and guidelines for action. This paper aims to assist policymakers...
Can the climate problem be framed as an urban development and transport problem where CO 2 reduction is understood as a co-benefit of good development and transport?The third largest source of greenhouse emissions in Australia is transport, and road transport accounts for 88% of transport emissions. A move towards sustainable urbanism, matched with the use of sustainable technologies (vehicle...
In an open market, the land price of a particular site represents a set of attributes that a user is willing to pay for the use of that site. It has long been established that one of the most important attributes is the distance of this site from the city center. Based on a mono-centric assumption of urban development, land economists since Alonso have almost all agreed that there is a diminishing...
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