Rapid growth of urbanization and its complications in recent decades has absorbed urban planners' attention to stability and stable development issues. In this regard community which is the core stone of urban development stayed away from formal system of spatial planning, and established communities are in contrast with preserving stable development rules and principals, therefore this researc...

Archaeological settlement systems are usually analysed in terms of the relation between the rank of a settlement and its size (Zipf’s law). We argue that this approach is unreliable, and can be misleading, in application to archaeological data where the recovery rate of settlements can be low and their size estimates are often approximate at best. An alternative framework for the settlement dat...

This study analyzes the level of awareness barangay (the smallest administrative division in Philippines) regarding Lupong Tagapamayapa, an informal justice system established under Local Government Code (Republic Act No. 7160). The is situated selected barangays third district Cagayan, and was motivated by observations a low adherence to Tagapamayapa provisions one such barangay. research used...

BACKGROUND Quality of healthcare is an important determinant of future progress in global health. However, the distributional aspects of quality of care have received inadequate attention. We assessed whether high quality maternal care is equitably distributed by (1) mapping the quality of maternal care in facilities located in poorer versus wealthier areas of Kenya; and (2) comparing the quali...

Fire spread between informal settlement dwellings (ISD) is a primary concern for large scale settlements conflagrations. Globally, approximately one billion people live in and are exposed to these fires. This paper presents fire experiment two dwellings, built with ISO 9705 dimension as an approximation of ISD separated by 1 m. The development mechanisms within the ISDs were investigated benchm...