ALTERNATIVE ROUTES TO URBAN DENSITY

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Economists have emphasized the importance of geography in growth and competitiveness, yet rarely has there been literature that identifies the...

How can public policy help manage risks from natural hazards in urban areas? The focus of this paper is on ex-ante preventive measures.

Although only a small percentage of global land cover, urban areas significantly alter climate, biogeochemistry, and hydrology at local, regional...

This paper aims to make transparent one economist’s views on density. I start by clarifying different definitions and their relationship to one...

This document has been extracted from Population Dynamics and Climate Change:

Dodman, D. 2009. “Urban Form, Greenhouse Gas Emissions...

Land development is an important component in sustainable development because it is where our food and raw materials come from and it is also the...

We created a new data set comprising the universe of all 3,649 named metropolitan agglomerations and cities that had populations in excess of 100,...

Abstract

Cities the world over are highly fragmented. The fragmentation of the built-up area cities by the open spaces...

The objectives of the research as stipulated in the Terms of Reference (ToR) state that the current trend in Asian cities is to:

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Saiban is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Karachi that develops plot settlements. It sells unserviced plots to residents who can...