The Old Town of Corfu is an excellent example a historic town and World Heritage Site, distinguished by its authentic unique character, as reflected in Venetian-era fortifications extensive building stock. Simultaneously, the also vibrant modern city vulnerable to various pressures, including climate change. This paper aims evaluate effects change on this monument, assess vulnerability using In...

In this paper, we ask “Can proximity to towns reduces poverty in rural areas?” For this study we have mapped all the villages in Orissa. The study is based on small area poverty estimation methodology as well as the secondary data covering 47,395 villages and 109 towns. Our main findings are (i) there is a relationship between the distance to nearest town and rural poverty and (ii) poverty leve...

in current century, success of organizations is dependent on the correct management of knowledge and also knowledge management (km) successful implementation relies on its critical success factors (csfs). identifying these critical factors can help businesses in planning and implementing knowledge management. hence, this study aims to propose a conceptual model with the csfs approach in order t...

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...

Most projects by the organizations were not implemented due to limited funds, low uptake of technology staff, high risks in handling cash from field office and capacity among staff whom it had informally recruited on its inception Kenya. Motivated that, this study determined influence critical success factors implementation Non-Governmental Organization Kakamega County, Kenya particularly focus...

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...

The industrial small-town development process in Shandong is influenced by the urban agglomeration strategy and regional collaborative production, thereby resulting a challenge of growth boundary planning. How to build forecast decision support system help small towns maintain sustainable with limited trial error costs an essential topic current research town-related fields. Empirical analysis ...

The aim of this study was to investigate effective factors in outsourcing of human resources activities of Saman bank. In this regard, the statistical population of the study consisted of 864 individuals of all employees and related directors in the selected branches of Saman bank and among those individuals, 122 of them were considered as sample size, by using Cochran formula and multistage cl...