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Making research on life trajectories. I am trying to identify subjective and objective factors which can explain bifurcation life trajectories.
03 March 2015 5,646 2 View
I am working on riverfront development and in search of any statistical method which can be helpful to delineate the waterfront area in an urban area.
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One of our research is about the new practices using the banks of irrigation canals. These canals are the backdrop for rapidly developing urban uses and practices. For one, the water is...
15 January 2015 1,622 5 View
Street art is a low cost tool for urban regeneration/redevelopment inclusive of all stakeholders of a community or city as it can alter public perceptions and is a separation of art form and...
01 January 2015 1,771 4 View
Most of the studies on dietary diversity use a simple diversity score or count for measuring diversity. However, this does not indicate diversity within the group and its share with respect to...
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Even though these two notions are conceptually different from each other, these are get involved in urban sociology and also related to urban ecology. And the intersection of these two concepts...
01 January 2015 4,949 3 View
I am currently studying works on olympic legacy in its urban aspects, especially concerning "non-infrastructural"..."soft" impacts of such a mega-events in its city. I would like to see more...
19 December 2014 1,490 10 View
Nigeria' s subsistence farmers who constitute over 95% of farmers in the country contributing about 90% of farming produce are resource poor. They make hard decisions prior to use of new...
12 December 2014 8,809 5 View
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Rural-Urban Migration. Particularly in the context of Lewis model and whether China is on the verge of reaching the Lewis Turning Point? China's export performance. Is it consistent with the...
12 December 2014 9,558 4 View
I'm currently researching for my Masters Thesis and looking into the associated health benefits of having a 'third place' that one regularly visits. And on the flip side the health issues with...
24 November 2014 7,881 3 View
I'm looking for data on people moving in and out of Miyagi prefecture,and Ishinomaki City in particular, before and after the Tohoku disaster of March 2011. I want to find out who is migrating...
11 November 2014 8,443 4 View
What do you think about dead-end streets? Some believe that guilty people can easily hide themselves in these streets and also they can create a closed circuit are with the help of the dead-end...
24 October 2014 3,355 15 View
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I would like to learn some good experiences of urban planning with participation of children. Do you know any examples in your country?
10 October 2014 758 7 View
Is there any researcher from Russia, India, China and South Africa interested in discuss and write some paper on urban studies applied to the BRICS in a comparative analysis?
09 September 2014 4,733 4 View
I'm interested in a city space (and not only city, places where people gather) social role for people. What can be said about some people gathering in one or another places? How particular site...
08 August 2014 2,442 1 View
A key issue that I would like to highlight is that child poverty is distinct from household poverty, although they are often related. With this in mind, eradicating extreme poverty ($1.25 a day)...
07 July 2014 4,112 67 View
What is the impact of climate change, water resources planning and the farmers skills?
06 June 2014 1,166 4 View
And if so, to what extent? Planners can be seen as designers of urban space among many other designers such as Architects, Landscape Architects and Urban Designers. Hence, what should be a...
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Working on fisheries management, I have been wondering how an institution (governmental or not) can acquire reliable fisheries catch data. How can the problems of under-reporting and mistrust be...
05 May 2014 1,243 11 View
Urban Design, Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture are acknowledged as independent disciplines (by now) that deal with designing spaces. In practice, each above discipline has...
04 April 2014 790 12 View