The links between urban planning and health are many and varied. Environmental, social and economic conditions in cities can have both positive and negative influences on human health and centre. Urban planning and related professions play an important role in shaping those conditions. Healthy Cities and the City Planning process is a background paper supporting the developmental work of the WH...

s of PPPM Masters’ and Undergraduate Students’ Terminal Projects, Capstone Projects, and Theses September 2014 – August 2015 Listed alphabetically by student’s last name This document was updated August 27, 2015 PPPM projects and theses are open access, located online at Scholars’ Bank. https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/7552 Keeping Local Economies Safe: The Role of Economic De...

this article analyses spatial political, economic and social contexts of successful of farming and livestock development in the area of Ili river valley (AoIRV). AoIRV is located on Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where is a vital and historical agricultural area in this region. In the Context of ‘Western Development Drive’ of China, central government enhance the support for western r...

The transportation sector experienced dramatic changes during the last 300 years. This essay reviews the major technological and infrastructural developments including the transition from roads to railways to automobiles, the rise of steamships, and the emergence of air-travel. Changes in the transport market are also examined, including trends in prices, consumption, and regulation. The role o...

Researchers embracing agent-based microsimulation models often criticize the inability of urban equilibrium models to reflect spatial heterogeneity and transitional dynamics. These limitations are major barriers for land use and transportation planners who may wish to apply urban economic models in regular planning processes. To this end, this paper extends Anas’ spatial computable general equi...

Health spending growth in the United States is projected to average 5.8 percent for 2014-24, reflecting the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansions, faster economic growth, and population aging. Recent historically low growth rates in the use of medical goods and services, as well as medical prices, are expected to gradually increase. However, in part because of the impact of continued cost-s...

This study deals with wage inequality in organization and shows the relationship between ICT and wage in organization. To do so, we incorporate ICT’s factors in organization into our model. ICT’s factors are efficiencies of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Computer Assisted Design/Computer Assisted Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), and NETWORK. The improvement of ICT’s factors decrease the learning c...

Executive Summary eBusiness and egovernment initiatives have resulted in tremendous economic development, improvements in quality of life, and operational efficiencies around the globe. However, 50-80% of these initiatives fail due to re-invention of the wheel, especially in developing countries and the underserved sectors of the developed countries (e.g., local governments and small to medium ...