Housing in the Neoliberal City: Large Urban Developments and the Role of Architecture
Large urban developments (LUDs) have been driving contemporary neoliberal urban housing development worldwide, marked by scholarly and public discourses on the transition from housing as a basic civil right to housing as investment channel and financial ...
Merryan Majerowitz, Yael Allweil
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The ambiguity of town planning: innovation or re-interpretation? [PDF]
The paper questions the nature of town planning as a coherent national strategy throughout Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, by analyzing the specific case study of Portsmouth.
Lemes, Fabiano, Verenini, Andrea
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Urban Morphology and Qualitative Topology: Open Green Spaces in High-Rise Residential Developments
High-rise housing complexes (HRHCs) are a prominent trend in urban development. They generate new configurations of open green spaces, thus creating a new set of human-environment relations and a new constellation of urban landscapes.
Efrat Eizenberg, Orly Sasson, Mor Shilon
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This study models groundwater vulnerability to contamination in three northern district municipalities (Amajuba, Zululand and Umkhanyakude) in KwaZulu Natal province in South Africa using GIS-based DRASTIC model.
Nomonde Shantel Tshiwela Mabogo+1 more
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Foundation for transdisciplinary education at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
South Africa faces a multitude of social, economic and environmental challenges, which require well-considered planning efforts. However, the efficacy of the built environment professions to adequately plan for the current and future populations can to ...
Masilonyane Mokhele, Nicholas Pinfold
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Shoreland and Riparian Buffer Regulations for the Town of Raymond PREP Local Grants Program 2008 Final Project Report [PDF]
In September of 2007, SNHPC applied to PREP’s Local Grant Program seeking $5,000 to help develop local shoreland protection ordinances consistent with the state’s Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act regulations.
Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission+1 more
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The factors influencing municipal solid waste generation in bauchi town, Nigeria [PDF]
This study investigated the factors influencing municipal solid waste generation (MSWG) in Bauchi town, the administrative headquarters of Bauchi state, Nigeria.
Gana, Bukar Abba+3 more
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Town of Chester Stormwater Management Project [PDF]
Great Bay Environmental Consulting (GBEC) worked with the Town of Chester Planning Board to improve regulatory approaches to stormwater management.
NHEP Community Technical Assistance Program
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Conservative Party policy for planning: caught between the market and local communities [PDF]
Whether in power or in opposition, the planning policies of the Conservative Party are caught in a tension between the free market and local communities. On one hand, the Conservatives face developers who want to simplify the planning system, speed up
Goodchild, B.
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Technological Optimization of Town-Planning Activity
The town-planning code of the Russian Federation allows to prepare the documents regulating design and planning activity independently by each subject of the town-planning relations.
Sergey D. Mityagin
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