The impacts of personal stress upon critical project decision making in construction The public (... more The impacts of personal stress upon critical project decision making in construction The public (UK) attitudes toward the implementation of renewable energy technologies in dwellings Measuring material wastage on construction sites: a case study of local authority highway projects Exploring the strategic dimension of business continuity and process re-engineering management Strategic considerations for construction in the People's Republic of China: the case of German contractors in the 1990s The role of early supplier involvement in managing risk in supply chains Purpose of the Built and Natural Environment Research Papers The aim of this Journal is to provide an opportunity for preliminary publication of material that is in progress, or likely to be developed further in the future. Contributors will primarily be members of staff of Northumbria University School of the Built and Natural Environment and its partner organisations. Articles are welcome in any discipline (or interdisciplinary fields) relating to the Built and Natural Environment. Enquiries should be made to
In her classic theory of economic development Jane Jacobs (1971) identifies explosive city growth... more In her classic theory of economic development Jane Jacobs (1971) identifies explosive city growth as the key mechanism. Less well known is her description of a broader urban consequence of this rapid change that she terms the rounding out of the city, a new array of goods and services for the local population. Her list of these for her ‘home town’ Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the first half of the twentieth century are given as a zoo, a museum of natural history, a central public, reference library, several hospitals, ‘several stuffy but imposing clubs’, departmental stores, city departments for fire-fighting and public health services, and a trolley-car system (Jacobs 1970, p. 160). That is, although Jacobs defines a city as a settlement that experiences one or more momentous economic spurts, it only begins to more broadly function as we expect of a city during its period of rounding out. In this chapter we equate Jacobs’s rounding out with development of an urban associati...
Part of a series covering key topics of most A-level geography courses, relating them to original... more Part of a series covering key topics of most A-level geography courses, relating them to original data and resources. This volume introduces the students to the geography of the Third World using a thematic structure with a mix of general description, theory, case studies, statistics and examples.
... rural emigrants. Indigenous, middle-class, second home owners had preferred to invest in tour... more ... rural emigrants. Indigenous, middle-class, second home owners had preferred to invest in tourist areas alongside concentrations of foreign owners (Gormsen, 1997), attracted by the superior infrastructure and services. In contrast ...
Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar la protección de las áreas rurales de Inglaterra y Gal... more Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar la protección de las áreas rurales de Inglaterra y Gales y está dividido en tres secciones. En primer lugar, se investigará el desarrollo de la política y la legislación en relación con la protección del medio ambiente de las áreas rurales de Inglaterra y Gales. En segundo lugar, se estudiarán los rasgos principales del sistema actual para administrar el cambio de los paisajes y para proteger dichos paisajes. Finalmente se analizará, con más profundidad, el carácter de algunos de los problemas actuales en relación con la protección ambiental, junto con la consideración de algunos intentos de solución de estos problemas. Aunque se examinará toda la gama de medidas aplicadas para proteger estas áreas, se prestará mayor atención a lo que probablemente es el aspecto más conocido, importante y controvertido de tal protección, es decir, los diez Parques Nacionales de Inglaterra y Gales. Espacios protegidos: el desarrollo de la legislación Durante el siglo xix y con anterioridad al mismo, la protección de los paisajes en Inglaterra y Gales fue considerada «asunto privado»
A spatial and temporal analysis, at a city wide scale, is given of the main type of informal hous... more A spatial and temporal analysis, at a city wide scale, is given of the main type of informal housing (favelas) in Rio de Janeiro. Rapid change in the number and distribution of favelas and their inhabitants (favelados) over time is seen as the outcome of two opposing sets of factors. Demand-led housing factors, including population growth and variations in levels of poverty in the city, have constantly outstripped the supply side of the housing equation where inadequate housing policies and investment, together with restricted building land have been characteristic. Added to these factors are a set of more specific developments which shape the favela geography, including the timing and location of urban redevelopment, favela eradication and recognition, transport development and access by the favelados to employment sources. Evidence shows that the contemporary distribution of favelas in the city does not conform to spatial models of this urban form, and that any interpretation of the Rio favelas, including their growth, development and diversity, needs to be space and time specific.
Mumbai (Bombay) is India's main industrial and commercial centre. According to the Unite... more Mumbai (Bombay) is India's main industrial and commercial centre. According to the United Nations it is the seventh largest city in the world with the fifth fastest rate of population growth. Over half the population, however, live in conditions of abject poverty, crammed into overcrowded slums and hutments located in unhealthy marginal environments. There are many complex reasons for Mumbai's
The impacts of personal stress upon critical project decision making in construction The public (... more The impacts of personal stress upon critical project decision making in construction The public (UK) attitudes toward the implementation of renewable energy technologies in dwellings Measuring material wastage on construction sites: a case study of local authority highway projects Exploring the strategic dimension of business continuity and process re-engineering management Strategic considerations for construction in the People's Republic of China: the case of German contractors in the 1990s The role of early supplier involvement in managing risk in supply chains Purpose of the Built and Natural Environment Research Papers The aim of this Journal is to provide an opportunity for preliminary publication of material that is in progress, or likely to be developed further in the future. Contributors will primarily be members of staff of Northumbria University School of the Built and Natural Environment and its partner organisations. Articles are welcome in any discipline (or interdisciplinary fields) relating to the Built and Natural Environment. Enquiries should be made to
In her classic theory of economic development Jane Jacobs (1971) identifies explosive city growth... more In her classic theory of economic development Jane Jacobs (1971) identifies explosive city growth as the key mechanism. Less well known is her description of a broader urban consequence of this rapid change that she terms the rounding out of the city, a new array of goods and services for the local population. Her list of these for her ‘home town’ Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the first half of the twentieth century are given as a zoo, a museum of natural history, a central public, reference library, several hospitals, ‘several stuffy but imposing clubs’, departmental stores, city departments for fire-fighting and public health services, and a trolley-car system (Jacobs 1970, p. 160). That is, although Jacobs defines a city as a settlement that experiences one or more momentous economic spurts, it only begins to more broadly function as we expect of a city during its period of rounding out. In this chapter we equate Jacobs’s rounding out with development of an urban associati...
Part of a series covering key topics of most A-level geography courses, relating them to original... more Part of a series covering key topics of most A-level geography courses, relating them to original data and resources. This volume introduces the students to the geography of the Third World using a thematic structure with a mix of general description, theory, case studies, statistics and examples.
... rural emigrants. Indigenous, middle-class, second home owners had preferred to invest in tour... more ... rural emigrants. Indigenous, middle-class, second home owners had preferred to invest in tourist areas alongside concentrations of foreign owners (Gormsen, 1997), attracted by the superior infrastructure and services. In contrast ...
Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar la protección de las áreas rurales de Inglaterra y Gal... more Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar la protección de las áreas rurales de Inglaterra y Gales y está dividido en tres secciones. En primer lugar, se investigará el desarrollo de la política y la legislación en relación con la protección del medio ambiente de las áreas rurales de Inglaterra y Gales. En segundo lugar, se estudiarán los rasgos principales del sistema actual para administrar el cambio de los paisajes y para proteger dichos paisajes. Finalmente se analizará, con más profundidad, el carácter de algunos de los problemas actuales en relación con la protección ambiental, junto con la consideración de algunos intentos de solución de estos problemas. Aunque se examinará toda la gama de medidas aplicadas para proteger estas áreas, se prestará mayor atención a lo que probablemente es el aspecto más conocido, importante y controvertido de tal protección, es decir, los diez Parques Nacionales de Inglaterra y Gales. Espacios protegidos: el desarrollo de la legislación Durante el siglo xix y con anterioridad al mismo, la protección de los paisajes en Inglaterra y Gales fue considerada «asunto privado»
A spatial and temporal analysis, at a city wide scale, is given of the main type of informal hous... more A spatial and temporal analysis, at a city wide scale, is given of the main type of informal housing (favelas) in Rio de Janeiro. Rapid change in the number and distribution of favelas and their inhabitants (favelados) over time is seen as the outcome of two opposing sets of factors. Demand-led housing factors, including population growth and variations in levels of poverty in the city, have constantly outstripped the supply side of the housing equation where inadequate housing policies and investment, together with restricted building land have been characteristic. Added to these factors are a set of more specific developments which shape the favela geography, including the timing and location of urban redevelopment, favela eradication and recognition, transport development and access by the favelados to employment sources. Evidence shows that the contemporary distribution of favelas in the city does not conform to spatial models of this urban form, and that any interpretation of the Rio favelas, including their growth, development and diversity, needs to be space and time specific.
Mumbai (Bombay) is India's main industrial and commercial centre. According to the Unite... more Mumbai (Bombay) is India's main industrial and commercial centre. According to the United Nations it is the seventh largest city in the world with the fifth fastest rate of population growth. Over half the population, however, live in conditions of abject poverty, crammed into overcrowded slums and hutments located in unhealthy marginal environments. There are many complex reasons for Mumbai's
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