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Urban service provision: strengths and weaknesses of five theoretical approaches
Michael E Smith & Timothy Dennehy & April Kamp-Whittaker & Benjamin W Stanley & Barbara L Stark & Abigail York, "Conceptual approaches to service pro...
October 19, 2023The Land of a Thousand Hills: Rwanda's New Urban Agenda
Abstract When a country's urbanisation rate far outstrips its construction industry's capacity to build, ambitious yet practical solutions are call...
October 19, 2023The history and revival of representing urban space with figure-ground diagrams
Michael Hebbert, "Figure-ground: history and practice of a planning technique," The Town Planning Review 87 (2016): 6 The take-away: This article c...
October 19, 2023Social Vulnerability to Climatic Shocks Is Shaped by Urban Accessibility
Annals of The Association of American Geographers. Jan2018, Vol. 108 Issue 1, p125-143. 19p Abstract Despite growing interest in urban vulnerabi...
October 19, 2023Success of high-density development depends on public feedback through counter-hierarchical institutions
Nancy Holman & Alan Mace & Antoine Paccoud & Jayaraj Sundaresan, "Coordinating density; working through conviction, suspicion and pragmatism," Progres...
October 19, 2023Schools not reducing acreage in accordance with relaxed state policies, possibly a result of lagging state guidance
Noreen C. McDonald & David A. Salvesen & H. Renee Kuhlman & Tabitha S. Combs, "The Impact of Changes in State Minimum Acreage Policies on School Sitin...
October 19, 2023Practitioners must take visual connectivity seriously
Amir Hajrasouliha & Li Yin, "The impact of street network connectivity on pedestrian volume," Urban Studies 52 (2015): 13 The take-away: This artic...
October 19, 2023Planning success depends on understanding market forces
Colin Jones, "Land use planning policies and market forces: Utopian aspirations thwarted?", Land Use Policy 38 (2014) Summary (produced by Science ...
October 19, 2023“Model Subdivisions”: poor self-help settlements and their implications for policy
Noah Durst, "The Nature and Extent of Self-Help Housing in Texas: From Colonias to Model Subdivisions," Journal of Planning Education and Research 36 ...
October 19, 2023Mixed-use streets in London: what does the future hold?
Matthew Carmona, "London's local high streets: The problems, potential and complexities of mixed street corridors," Progress in Planning 100 (2015) ...
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