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Many metropolitan cities in Asia are planning and implementing extensive investment in mass transit networks and thus are now on the threshold of becoming transit cities or car traffic saturation cities. The promotion of transit-oriented development (TOD) policies will be a key to the...
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The paper studies trends in the urbanization in Russia and compares them with the global ones. Russia has high level of … urbanization, urban population reached 73% in 1990, and the rate of urbanization fluctuates around this level past 20 years. The …, 1999, and 2004. The paper discusses advantages and disadvantages of the urbanization to the economic development and …
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Land is a scarce resource; hence, efficient land management techniques are critical for its procurement and development. The land readjustment (LR) mechanism is one such land assembly tool, which many countries, including Japan, have adopted, and is known as the Town Planning Scheme (TP Scheme) in...
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While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...
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