Abstract We address a debate over the effects of private versus customary property rights on external investment. Despite political economists’ claims that investors favor rights, other experts argue systems enable large-scale “land grabs.” organize these competing claims, highlighting trade-offs due to differences in legibility ability displace existing landholders under both systems. study na...

The purpose of this study was to determine the legibility of symbols formed from matrices which contained different numbers of dot elements. A set of alphanumeric symbols was constructed from each of the following dot matrices: 3x5, 5x7, 7x 11, and 9 x 15. The four symbol, sets were shown for identification to one group of operators under nearly optimal viewing conditions and to a second group ...

urban landscapes form the main parts of the city. one of these spaces is urban streets, in whichsocial interactions and urban vitality reach its maximum quality and quantity. one of the principles and properties ofurban landscape design is its intelligibility. a viewer who takes a look at an intelligible city and knows it can attract newemotional manifestations of city without damaging its orig...