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    Urban Form and Real Estate Value in Msheireb Downtown Doha, Qatar

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2023
    Qatar
    Urban Tenure
    land administration
    land investments

    In the late 20th century Dohas rapid urbanization and globalization led to the loss of housing and the compact traditional urban fabric in the old city center The Qatari government and Msheireb Properties developed Msheireb Downtown Doha to bring urban living back with a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional urban fabric and modern life conveniences Our studys primary objective is to investigate the relationship between urban form and the rental value of residential units identifying factors that might influence rental asking prices The paper examines morphological characteristic

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    Technical Land-Sea Spaces: Impacts of the Port Clusterization Phenomenon on Coasts, Cities and Architectures

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2023
    Global
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Urban Tenure
    Forest Tenure
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    land administration
    land conflicts
    land governance
    land information systems
    land investments
    land law
    land reform

    Landsea interactions extending inland and towards the marine spaces are affected by major management and design transformations Globalization processes port expansion projects and extensive energy transition requests have recently led port institutions to demand more land engaging deeply with logistics platforms and radically restructuring forms of port governance In this competitive context the phenomenon of Port Clusterisation ie the administrative aggregation whereby two or more ports are merged to form port clusters is heavily impacting the institutional sphere However not only does thi

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    Concomitant Recital of a Prolonged Reign: Dilation of the Dutch Empire and Enticement of Ascendency, Delineating Batavia, Victim and Valedictorian

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Global
    Urban Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land & Investments
    land administration
    land tenure
    tenure security

    The VOC Verenigde OostIndische Compagnie was both the absolutist and the pacifier as it sought to colonize Sunda Kelapa through the displacement of the indigenous population architecture and regimen the VOC was deployed catalyst to the marking of a golden era roughly spanning the 17th century through which architecture trade science and military boomed marking Jakarta a resilient harbour to the worlds finest trades Batavia modernday Jakarta welded a myriad of names endorsing its irrefutable paramount one of which Queen of the East paraphrased an allusion to its urban beauty Until its last d

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    Mitigating Environmental Sustainability Challenges and Enhancing Health in Urban Communities: The Multi-functionality of Green Infrastructure

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2020
    Nigeria
    Urban Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land & Food Security
    forest land
    gender equity in access to land
    land degradation
    land-use planning

    Green Infrastructure GI facilities have the capacity to enhance health and mitigate Environmental Sustainability Challenges ESC However the extent of the mitigation and health benefits is unclear in developing countries This study examined the impact of GI on ESC and Perceived Health PH of urban residents in Lagos Metropolis Nigeria Multistage sampling technique was used to select 1858 residents of Lagos Metropolis who completed semistructured questionnaires Descriptive statistics and chisquare test were used to explore data distributions and assess the association of the availability of GI

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    The Impact of Transit-Oriented Development on Fast-Urbanizing Cities: Applied analytical study on Greater Cairo Region

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2022
    Egypt
    Urban Tenure
    Land & Investments
    Forest Tenure
    gender equity in access to land
    land access
    land deals
    land governance
    land investments
    land management
    land policies
    land-use planning

    Transportation has always been the backbone of development Transitoriented development TOD has been theorized piloted and expanded increasingly in the past few decades In this regard this paper investigates the relationship between urban development the transportation process and the required implementation guidelines within fasturbanizing cities such as Cairo After reviewing different related sustainable development theories the study investigates pioneering case studies that have applied TOD and provided adequate implementation frameworks The authors then extract and compare a set of requ

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    Investigating Built Environment Indicators to Develop a Local Walkability Index

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2021
    Egypt
    Urban Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land & Food Security
    gender equity in access to land

    Many studies have been conducted over the last 20 years to determine and measure factors that affect the walkability of city streets Walkability is an essential factor in deciding whether a city is green or sustainable This paper creates a comprehensive walkability index by analysing built environmental indicators that affect walkability This research was conducted on mixed land use streets in Cairo Egypt combining the results from an online survey and a walkability assessment model developed by multicriteria decision analysis techniques The results were based on a threepillar approach star

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    Exploring the Nexus between Political Risk and Financial Risk in the Balkan Countries: A Wavelet-Based NARDL Coherency analysis

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2022
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    Urban Tenure
    Land & Investments
    gender equity in access to land
    land governance
    land investments
    land law
    land loans
    land policies
    land reform

    The empirical investigation of which risk factorpolitical or financialis the optimal driver of country risk in emerging economies in the twentyfirst century has grown into a significant and volatile issue in recent decades This paper investigates the linkages between political risk and financial risk in four Balkan economies ie Greece Albania Bulgaria and Romania from 1984 Q3 to 2018 Q4 using nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag cointegration NARDL and wavelet coherence approaches As a result findings from the links between political risk and financial risk are being used to provide sig

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    Impact of Urban Heat Island on Formation of Precipitation in Indian Western Coastal Cities

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2023
    Global
    Urban Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    land access
    land administration
    land conflicts
    land degradation
    land information systems
    land management
    land records
    land-use planning
    urban land

    Rapid urbanization is leading to a drastic hike in anthropogenic activities and urban surface alterations As a result there are many repercussions one of them being higher temperatures in urban areas when compared to rural areas This phenomenon is termed Urban Heat Island UHI The impacts of urban surface characteristics climate and population density on UHI have been extensively studied However the influence of UHI on the local climate remains elusive Relatively few studies demonstrate interrelation between UHI population density and unanticipated precipitation events Therefore it is import

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    Monitoring and Landscape Quantification of Uncontrolled Urbanisation in Oasis Regions: The Case of Adrar City in Algeria

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2021
    Algeria
    Urban Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    land access
    land degradation
    land governance
    land information systems
    land management
    land registration
    land-use planning
    urban land

    Nowadays uncontrolled urbanisation is one of the major problems facing Algerian oasis regions The monitoring and evaluation of its landscape transformations remain a key step for any oasis sustainability project This study highlights the evolution of spatial growth in the city of Adrar in southern Algeria during the period 19862016 by establishing a Spatiotemporal mapping and landscape quantification The methodological approach is based on a multitemporal analysis of Landsat satellite images for 1986 1996 2006 and 2016 and the application of landscape metrics The results show two opposite s

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    The Nexus between Residential Density, Travel Behavior and Traffic Congestion in Developing Metropolitans: A Case Study of Harare, Zimbabwe

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2023
    Zimbabwe
    Urban Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    land access
    land conflicts
    land information systems
    land management
    land ownership
    land policies
    land productivity
    land-use planning

    There is a noticeable dearth of empirical studies on the mediating role of travel behaviour on the influence of residential density on traffic congestion in developing countries particularly in Zimbabwe To address this gap this study examined the effect of residential density on traffic congestion and delved into the potential mediating role of travel behaviour in this relationship This study used data from a sample of 384 households in the Harare metropolitan province of Zimbabwe Structural equation modelling was used to test the research hypotheses The findings indicate that residential d

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