Anne Vernez Moudon *, Chanam Lee , Allen D. Cheadle , Cheza W. Collier , Donna Johnson , Thomas L. Schmid , Robert D. Weather g a Department of Urban Design and Planning, Gould 410, Box 355740, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA b Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, USA c Department of Health Services, University of Washington, USA d Chro...

Abstr act: Visual Information Systems for urban planning can be produced in a variety of ways. In this paper we give an account of research into integrating scanned data with urban data sets to produce 3D applications that span built environment spatial scales from building elements to the whole city. In our research, 3D laser scanner is used to capture 3D building models as a way of developing...

The focus of family planning programmes has shifted away from an emphasis on controlling fertility towards helping individuals achieve their reproductive goals. This article seeks to expand knowledge about the quality of integrated services from the perspective of clients at health facilities in KwaZulu-Natal. The results from 300 structured interviews with clients visiting health facilities fo...

In virtually all cities across the world, the worst health problems and premature deaths are highly concentrated in neighbourhoods that also experience a host of other social inequalities, including lack of basic sanitation and water services, high poverty rates, residential segregation, and concentrations of environmentally noxious facilities. Yet, contemporary urban planning practice, which e...

Family planning programmes are costly to implement, so it is critical to determine their effect. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to determine the impact of new family planning clinics on knowledge, contraceptive use and unmet need for family planning, amongst married women in urban poor areas of six secondary cities of Pakistan. Baseline (n=5,338) and end-line (n=5,502) population s...

in order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, being on demand, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. in addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers, travel agencies and other institutions with other ser...

Background Over the last decade, Ethiopia has made impressive national improvements in health outcomes, including reductions in maternal, neonatal, infant, and child mortality attributed in large part to their Health Extension Program (HEP). As this program continues to evolve and improve, understanding the unit cost of health extension worker (HEW) services is fundamental to planning for futur...

The technology for determining the geographic location of cell phones and other hand-held devices is becoming increasingly available. It is opening the way to a wide range of applications, collectively referred to as Location Based Services (LBS), that are primarily aimed at individual users. However, if deployed to retrieve aggregated data in cities, LBS could become a powerful tool for urban ...