Given the increasing importance of affordability in housing policy reform debates, this study develops a new composite approach to measuring housing affordability and employs it to examine the nature of urban housing affordability in Nigeria. The…
This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through ‘invited spaces’ offered by the government and ‘claimed spaces’ created by the poor. The study questions how increased contributions to poverty…
This work is a study in urban history, in particular, one that examines a crucial period in the rise and development of large cities and metropolises in the region of Sogdiana within Central Asia, between the seventh and tenth centuries. The primary…
This research documents a twelve-year dialogue between Palestinian and Israeli academics, professionals and activists on the Jerusalem issue. The continuing dialogue, with its various and many stges, and the resulting urban content product,…
This thesis explores urban poverty and the adaptations of the urban poor in the slums of the megacity of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It seeks to make a contribution to understanding and analysis of the phenomenon of rapid mass urbanisation in the Third World…
The transition from deindustrial to post industrial city from the 1970s exposed how cities developed regeneration strategies as their traditional industrial base experienced terminal contraction. These strategies to re-make urban places positioned at…
Urban segregation represents a significant barrier for achieving social inclusion in cities. To overcome this, it is necessary to implement policies founded upon a better understanding of segregation dynamics. However, a crucial challenge for…
This research proposes to study spatial planning in a context of high social inequity. The analysis is focused on the possibilities that spatial planning has to attenuate conditions of inequity in urban development derived from urban growth process;…
Tourism, once dismissed as the 'candyfloss industry', is increasingly being recognised by governments (both national and local) as one capable of regenerating declining urban economies. Encouraged by positive media coverage of schemes such as those…
This PhD thesis is a study of urban transformation in a Libyan city. The case study focuses on the city of Tripoli, the capital of Libya. It is at the same time an old city as well as a modern city, and can be identified as a major world city. Libya…
The economy of Oman, was traditional in character before the development of the oil sector which set in motion the present structural transformation. Economic prosperity gave the opportunity to the public to possess their own private means of…
One of the challenges confronting cities in non-industrialised countries today is the fact that cities are growing at unprecedented rates, sizes and densities. Growth trends in these cities are largely unregulated. In these countries, cities have…
It is the writer's contention that there are existing weaknesses in the empirical literature on ghetto riots. One of the most serious weaknesses rests in the fact that many of the theories and/or assumptions put forth in attempts to explain aspects…
The state of Qatar provides an interesting illustration of a nation that has recently witnessed spectacular urban development worthy of investigation. Indeed, during the past three decades huge oil revenues have enabled the country to embark on…
Croissance rapide, villes ingérables, crise de l'urbain, macrocéphalies, … les villes ne seraient plus planifiables, du moins pas avec les instruments classiques de l'urbanisme de plans. Et aux instruments traditionnels de la planification urbaine,…
L’absence d’articulation entre urbanisation et accélération du phénomène touristique provoque une crise dans la ville de Zanzibar. Cette accélération fragilise l’organisation spatiale du tissu urbain et du territoire de l’archipel. Elle réussit…
This thesis explores and develops various analytical methods in order to better understand residential choice and the implicit prices of single-family property markets. The area of study is Quebec City, whereas most of the work relies on…
L'actuelle augmentation des vitesses de déplacements, observée par les Enquêtes Globales des Transports en Île-de-France, constitue l'indicateur le plus significatif de la croissance de la mobilité urbaine. Cette accélération, générale et soutenue,…
This thesis examines the nature of Early Mediaeval trading and manufacturing settlements in Scandinavia, and in the Scandinavian-influenced area of England. Using previously unpublished material from the 1990-1995 excavations at Birka, in Sweden,…
Depuis les années soixante, en même temps que l'urbanisation continue sa progression, la littérature féminine ne cesse de prendre de l'ampleur dans le champ littéraire québécois. Cette thèse soulève la question de cette rencontre de la grande ville…
