Housing and Town Planning

When Walmart comes to town: Always low housing prices? Always?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2014.10.004 0094-1190/ 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. q We thank Emek Basker, Nick Kuminoff, Lars Lefgren, Chris Parmeter and Arden Pope and seminar participants at Brigham Young University, the summer meetings of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and the meetings of theWeimer/Seldin School for Advanced Studies, as well a...

New Insights into Harappan Town-Planning

Dholavira’s elaborate town-planning rests on the conscious use of specific proportions for its successive enclosures. Those proportions combined with the city’s dimensions allow us to calculate precisely the unit of length used for the fortifications, to relate it to the Lothal ivory scale, and to work out potential subunits. Both proportions and units receive overwhelming confirmation from str...

Obstacles of Sustainable Planning in Housing Sector of Iran

Investigation of physical resilience of suburban housing against natural hazards (Case study: Bahonar town of Mashhad)

Background and objective: Today, most cities and residential communities are built in places that are exposed to a variety of disasters, such as natural and man-made hazards. Therefore, paying attention to the physical dimensions of residential structures in suburban areas has become very important. The study area is Bahonar town of Mashhad, which is a separate area from district 6 with a popul...

status of land administration in the town and country planning

sixty-year history of town and country planning in the world, raised a fundamental question: why following the successful models in the process of town and country planning don’t have always similar results? whether, the origin of differences and ambiguities are not in the boundaries, interrelation among the levels of decision making, policy making, uncontrollable democracy in land ownership, i...