There is increasing number of people suffering from “Sick-building Syndrome” in Japan. Therefore, we started “Chemi-less Town Project”, building a model town in which buildings are constructed with fewer chemicals. In this paper, we introduce the background, concept and current situation of the project. We made the key word, “Chemi-less”, which means “fewer” chemicals. In the model town, there ...

My interest in the relationship between fear and city building was sparked while doing research on the French new town of Jouy-leMoutier 15 years ago. This new town was an experiment in neotraditional urbanism (or the ‘new urbanism’), an effort to build a new town which looks and functions something like an old town. I wanted to discover whether or not this was a good strategy for city building...

Introduction: The World Health Organization estimates occupational health risks as the tenth leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The burden of disease from selected occupational risk factors amounts to 1.5% of the global burden in terms of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY). The World Health Report 2002, has reported that occupational risk factors account for a number of morbid conditi...

3 Acknowledgements 4 List of Tables and Figures 6 Glossary of Acronyms 6 Chapter One: Introduction 7 Definitions 8 Methodology 9 Limitations 9 Structure 10 Chapter Two: Housing for the Urban Poor – The Roads Taken 11 Slum clearance and resettlement 11 Sites and services 12 In-situ upgrading 13 Urban management 16 Where to? 19 Chapter Three: The Indian Context and a Brief History of Indian Housi...

Taking as an example the land resources management in Dingzhuang town, Guangrao County, Shandong province, this thesis makes sufficient investigation and demand analysis in accordance with the features of land resources management in villages and towns. It studied in details the main content of land resources management in villages and towns. On this basis, the thesis first makes a general desi...