A Participatory Approach to Urban Transport Planning in Developing Countries

Urban Planning: Challenges in Developing Countries

Urban Transport and Poverty in Developing Countries

Linking urban transport and land use in developing countries

emobility challenges of the developingworld are considerably different than those inwealthier, advanced countries, and so are the challenges of coordinating transportation and land use. Rapid population growth, poverty and income disparities, overcrowded urban cores, poorly designed road networks, spatial mismatches between housing and jobs, deteriorating environmental conditions, and economic...

Developing a Citizen-Centric Spatial Decision-Making System to Support the Process of Participatory Construction in Urban Distressed Textures

Todays, urban distressed textures are considered as a vital concern of managers, particularly in large cities. These areas, which also appear in official parts of cities, are vulnerable because of prospective problems. Lack of proper accessibility, services, facilities, and infrastructures, as well as social, economic, environmental and spatial problems, are key problems of these areas. Althoug...

Family Planning in Developing Countries

Recently, commentators in several prominent U.S. publications have declared that the population explosion is over and concluded that population growth is no longer a serious policy issue. “The population boom is a bust,” declares one.2 One statistic commonly cited as evidence of this is the global decline in fertility rates (the number of children born per woman). It is true that fertility worl...