near metro stations (transitoriented development) or in the city center. Moreover, the metro and transit …-oriented development are complementary-their joint effect on incomes, prices, and welfare is greater than the combined effect of the two …

urban development strategy is suggested to jump start the transformation of the existing settlements into operational urban … centres. The development proposal is completed by a brief discussion on urban standards and design recommendations to be … from Sudan. Yet decades of civil war not only prevented development but destroyed the infrastructure left over from the …

sustainable urban development with possible references to India. The paper is based on available literature and secondary data …This paper aims at discussing some of the important issues relating to sustainable urban form that would lead to …. The study discusses the compact city debate and also explains the concepts and possibilities of multi-modal urban region …

that economic development programs to increase metropolitan job growth will have a progressive effect if the cost per job … created is low, and these costs are financed by personal taxes. But economic development programs with a high cost per job …

The federal government should focus its policies towards economic development on areas in which the federal government … has some unique advantages. Federal policy should: (1) discourage financial subsidies to specific large firms by state and … local governments; (2) expand the federal role in economic development services in which national action has some special …

The urban development process intends to enhance urban equipment, infrastructure and services to improve urban … to assess urban conditions, evaluate and compare the sectorial demands and assemble a balanced set of development goals … and programs. Most urban projects have a strong sectorial character and it is difficult to compare parks with roads or …

Africa. Since these additional urban spaces are still to be developed, urban development strategies that consider higher … component with the urban development context and the dissemination of information on this matter. … increase from now to 2050, which is expected to be almost entirely concentrated in the urban centres of Asia, Latin America and …

Jones C. and Orr A. M. (2004) Spatial economic change and long-term urban office rental trends, Reg. Studies38, 281 … and these spatial economic forces, differentiating in particular by urban size and growth of service employment. The … within both a formal framework of an a priori typology of urban centres and alternatively through an agnostic set of centre …

understanding policy directions, urban spatial development trends and other factors such as population dynamics that may have led to … sectors or areas and sprawling expansion. This has also led to the many challenges of urban poverty, inadequate housing … the development of the present-day urban settlements in the country. The paper observes that whilst pre-colonial cities …