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    Ekistics

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    Ekistics‚ scientific epistemology Description Initiated by the Greek architect Doxiades in the early fifties‚ the term "Ekistics" designated "the science for human settlements" which promoted a scientific method for architectural design and planning. It had an immense impact on many fields of architecture and planning worldwide‚ especially during the sixties. With the theoretical shifts in subsequent decades‚ Ekistics was displaced as obsolete and its aspirations remained unexplored‚ while scientific

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    Egyptian Planning Law

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    system. 1.2 Differences between Rural and Urban regions in Egypt. 1.3 Relation between central and local authority. 1.4 Parliamentary power (the elected councils). 2. Egyptian New Administrative System (according to 2012 constitution). 2.1 Relation between central and local authority 2.2 2.2 Parliamentary power (The Elected Councils). 3.Egyptian planning system. (According to the unified planning law 119 of the year 2008). 3.1. History of The Urban planning Systems 3.2. The unified building

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    Urban Crime in Kenya

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    Victims (Norton‚ 1984). Alcoholic Drinks Control Act (NACADA ‚2010 ) Wilson‚ Colin. A Criminal History of Mankind (Carroll & Graf‚ 1990). Lombroso‚ C. (1968).  Crime: Its Causes and Remedies. Montclair. Fleisher‚ S. (1995) Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals.University of Wisconsin Press. Renzetti‚ C. (2001). Women‚ Crime‚ and Criminal Justice‚Los Angeles: Roxbury.

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    Urban Tourism - Amsterdam

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    Management‚ Vol. 29‚ Issue 4‚ Munich Doxey‚ G Fyall‚ A.‚ 2008‚ Managing Visitor Attraction‚ Second Edition‚ Elsevier‚ Oxford Grinstein‚ A.‚ Nisan‚ U.‚ 2009‚ Demarketing‚ Minorities and National Attachment‚ Journal of Marketing‚ Vol Hinch‚ T.‚ 1996‚ Urban Tourism Perspectives on Sustainability‚ Sustainable Tourism‚ 4‚ 2; pp. 95-110 Holland‚ 2012‚ [accessed online] on 28th November‚ available at: http://www.holland.com/uk.tourism/ Lopez‚ N.‚ 1996‚ Attitudes of Town Residents towards Tourism‚ Unpublished

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    Informal and Formal Debate

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    oot. The idea of  cultural district is by zooming out in a classical modern city‚ any successful case should  take significant amount of time as culture grows slowly and build upon itself.  Architect’s role in the top down development in existing urban fabric     A: Within an economic model‚ architect’s role is very small in terms of decision making.     M: Yet we should not see ourselves as individual‚ but a group of people‚ no matter  professionals or not‚ seeing the problems with the planning system and educate 

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    Kevin Lynch

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    environment which is ordered in precise and final detail may inhibit new patterns of activity. A landscape whose every rock tells a story may make difficult the creation of fresh stories. Although this may not seem to be a critical issue in our present urban chaos‚ yet it indicates that what we seek is not a final but an open-ended order‚ capable of continuous further development. Building the

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    Miss

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    Top of Form Bottom of Form JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY EV5301: URBAN GEOGRAPHY AND DESIGN FINAL ESSAY JOHANNA OCHOA RUILOVA 2-11-2012 NEW URBANISM IS TOUTED AS THE SOLUTION TO SPRAWL (CSD) FOR MANY WESTERN CITIES. TO WHAT EXTENT IS THIS USEFUL AS A STRATEGY FOR CITIES IN THE TROPICAL WORLD? INTRODUCTION The New Urbanism‚ also called neo-traditional Planning‚ traditional neighborhood development or smart growth (Gyourko and Rybczynski‚ 2000) is a Community Design Reform movement born

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    Urban Houses in Russia

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    Rural Khmer house Despite indoor and outdoor temperatures of 36°C and up to 80% relative humidity the old rural Khmer houses are very comfortable‚ both at ground level and on the upper floor. In spite of the absence of electric or mechanical air conditioning‚ a draught-free environment appears to be attained simply by means of natural ventilation. Typically‚ rural Khmer houses are rectangular two-storey buildings‚ varying in size from four by six metres to about six by ten metres. The basic

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    Indian Steel Industry

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    TOWN LEVEL BACKGROUND NOTE (DRAFT) ON JALNA Submitted to Urban India Reforms Facility TATA INSTITUTE of SOCIAL SCIENCES By Resources and Livelihoods Group‚ PRAYAS‚ Pune 1 Acknowledgements Preparation of this report would not have been possible without the cooperation and support extended by the Jalna Municipal council’s officers and councilors for the support they extended in the form of sharing data as well as exchanging views ‚ and also the experts from different fields

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    The Story of Crow Gultch

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    control‚ many of whose residents were “jackatars‚” a derogatory term once used widely in Newfoundland for persons of French-Mi’kmaq descent (métis). The community of Crow Gulch disappeared in 1968 following nearly two decades of discussion over urban renewal in Corner Brook. The end result was a form of benign coercion: the expropriation of property with some financial compensation‚ the physical destruction of their homes‚ and the relocation and resettlement of residents unable to find affordable

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