This study uses data from 99 Chinese cities covering the decade from 2000 to 2010 to look at factors that drive urban development in China. There are data available to test standard measures of development like housing price. However, there are fundamental problems with doing so due to a Chinese housing market shaped by factors like planned construction with waiting lists, housing as the best a...

The article is about the analysis of the development of architecture and urban planning of Uzbekistan from ancient times till the 21st century. Scientific-based recommendations of the city structure improvement in contemporary conditions. IndexTerms: urban planning, transformation, urbanization, genesis, general plans, housing construction, functional urban planning, old city areas, reconstruct...

This paper examines a welfare issue of growing importance in many least developed countries, that of determinants of housing quality and uses the case of Ghana to add to the body of empirical knowledge. The paper presents estimates of the determinants of housing quality in Ghana using the Core Welfare Instrument. The empirical analysis based on the Logistic and Ordinary Least Square regressions...

House is considered not only as one of the main needs of human beings but also as one of the best determining characteristics of living standard. Housing shortages is one of the most acute problems next to the rapid growth of the large cities and their suburbs in developing countries. These cities take all the opportunities, services and the funds Which a country has to offer,, Despite this ...

Data from the urban renewal experience in Syracuse, New York are used to examine the impact of race on patterns of intra-urban migration. The results show that, overall, the migration patterns exhibited an exponential decay in frequency with increasing distance. Both blacks and whites display this pattern, but blacks tend to cluster more closely around the point of origin. Indirect evidence is ...

We provide the wildland urban interface (WUI) map of the autonomous community of Catalonia (Northeastern Spain). The map encompasses an area of some 3.21 million ha and is presented as a 150-m resolution raster dataset. Individual housing location, structure density and vegetation cover data were used to spatially assess in detail the interface, intermix and dispersed rural WUI communities with...

Many analyses of urban phenomena in developing countries occur in an intellectual and urban policy bubble which ignores the impacts of global economic phenomena. “Urban conventional wisdom” ignores the role of global capital flows in urban capital formation in housing and infrastructure. This narrative neglects the central role of urban employment in the generation of urban incomes and liveliho...

This paper examines land development using an integrated approach that combines residential decisions about choices of community in the Southern Appalachian region with the application of the GIS (Geographical Information System). The empirical model infers a distinctive heterogeneity in the characteristics of community choices. The results also indicate that socioeconomic motives strongly affe...

Alastair McFarlane U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research Washington, D.C. 20410 Tel. 202 708 0426 Fax 202 708 1159 Email: [email protected] Original: May 1999 First revision: August 2001 JEL Classifications: R11 (Analysis of growth, development, and changes;) R33 (Housing supply and markets); and R38 (government policies; regulatory ...