Urban Poverty and Support for Islamist Terror: Survey Results of Muslims in Fourteen Countries [PDF]
Survey respondents in fourteen countries representing 62% of the world’s Muslim population indicate that approval of Islamist terror is not associated with religiosity, lack of education, poverty, or income dissatisfaction. Instead, it is associated with
Michael Mousseau
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The contribution of 'integrated transport studies' to the process of urban planning [PDF]
, 1995 In the late 1980s and early 1990s a number of British local authorities commissioned consultants to undertake what have often been termed 'Integrated Transport Studies'. These are a variant of comprehensive transport studies which were undertaken in many
Forster, Andrew
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Field visits are common phenomena with non‐governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor‐oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field visits, this paper understands the field visit as a microcosm for the ...
Caspar Edward Swinkels
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Online survey as a tool in participatory urban governance - The Polish experience
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2011 Sustainable urban governance needs to be participatory. Municipal decision-making processes have to be responsive, transparent and inclusive, they should also actively promote citizen involvement.
Damurski Łukasz
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HJ Cole + associados – planejamento e empreendimentos (1970-1980)
Urbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2013 O artigo comenta a trajetória profissional de Harry James Cole a partir de seu escritório de projetos, o H.J. Cole + Associados, onde desenvolveu nos anos 1970 uma série de trabalhos urbanísticos.
Maria Cecilia Lucchese
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Identity and Space on the Borderland between Old and New in Shanghai: A Case Study [PDF]
China's urban geography has been dramatically altered over the past three decades. The co-presence of splinters in urban fabric-contrasting and continuously changing in terms of condition, use, and socio-cultural consistency-is symptomatic for ...
Iossifova, Deljana
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Neighbourhood change... reason to leave?
, 2016 Little attention has been paid to date to the role of a changing neighbourhood as a factor influencing the residential choice process. Processes of neighbourhood change are often beyond residents' sphere of influence and if a changing neighbourhood ...
Van Ham, Maarten, Feijten, Petra Maria
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Re-thinking the incrementalist thesis in China: a reflection on the development of the minimum standard of living scheme in urban and rural areas [PDF]
, 2010 Many commentators contend that the Chinese government adopted an incremental approach to welfare policy reform because its leaders lacked an overall blueprint for it, allowing initiatives to be implemented only after lengthy experimentation.
Chan, CK, CHAK KWAN CHAN
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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Human capital in the German urban system – Patterns of concentration and specialisation
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2010 In the knowledge economy human capital plays a crucial role in various economic processes and thus also in spatial development. But human capital is an economic resource that is distributed unequally in space. Some regions show a higher density of human
Anna Growe
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