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• Open Space Implications in Urban Development: Reflections in Recent Urban Planning Practices in Nepal

  Krishna Prasad Timalsina, Bhim Prasad Subedi

  69-81

  
  Article ID: 4544
  
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  Abstract:

  Open space has various implications in urban development planning and has been integrated in recent urban planning approaches and practices in Nepal. The open spaces are not only important for (re)shaping the urban form but are also important for enhancing urban social life and disaster risk management, particularly for dense cities. As most of the cities in Nepal have been growing haphazardly,... More

  2022-04-27

• State Restructuring and Urban Innovation Development in Post-reform China: Shanghai’s Innovation Action in Review

  Lingyue LI, Huizhi Geng, Xiaohu Zhang

  34-43

  
  Article ID: 3173
  
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  Abstract:

  Given the ample evidences from present studies on national-level innovation policies evolution and mechanisms, this paper contributes to a city-level understanding towards innovation-related state restructuring,the consequent innovation policy change and its relational performance with urban development in post-reform Shanghai, China from an inputoutput perspective. It unfolds that state restructuring relinquishing state power to the market... More

  2021-06-15

• Peri-urban Development: Discussion with Land Use Zoning, Statutory Provision, and Issues inside Katahari Rural Municipality, Nepal

  Kedar Dahal

  1-16

  
  Article ID: 5113
  
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  Abstract:

  The peri-urban area is a transitional zone between the city and its hinterlands characterized by mixed land use and intensive flows of resources, people, goods, and services from and to the city center. These zones are generally misguided and haphazardly developed without a proper planning framework. The peri-urban area at present will be the urban area in the... More

  2023-01-30

• A Geographical Analysis of Urban Sprawl in Abuja, Nigeria

  Susan Aniekwe, Nwabueze Ikenna Igu

  12-18

  
  Article ID: 344
  
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  Abstract:

  Urban sprawl is a challenge of the century across the globe; however its greatest impact is felt more in developing countries mainly due to its poor planning and ever increasing population. To ascertain how this affects a notable African city, Abuja, a questionnaire design was employed to elicit resident’s perception on the causes and... More

  2019-03-14