top 10 places to visit in the world Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/top-10-places-to-visit-in-the-world Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:28:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Best Destinations in the World http://travelsfinders.com/best-destinations-in-the-world.html http://travelsfinders.com/best-destinations-in-the-world.html#respond Sat, 16 Dec 2017 08:30:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=248034 Formal and Informal Peri-urban Developments in the Cities of the Global South Responding to ever-increasing population numbers, many new cities are being planned in the Global South. Even though the transport characteristics of these cities are different from those of cities in Global North, many are still reliant on conventional auto-centric, Western city planning. An example of applying Western-style planning in developing countries is the edge city concept emerging in China, India, and the United Arab Emirates. City outskirts brim with gated and boxed mid-rise glass office towers surrounded by gardens and parking lots. Shopping malls, wholesale supermarkets, and high-tech

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]]> http://travelsfinders.com/best-destinations-in-the-world.html/feed 0 Best places to Visit http://travelsfinders.com/best-places-to-visit.html http://travelsfinders.com/best-places-to-visit.html#respond Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:18:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=248036 Role of Informal Collective Transport and Private Two-Wheelers While car ownership may be on the rise in the cities of the Global South, informal collective modes, sometimes referred to as ‘para-transit’ or low-cost transport, and private two-wheelers are leading the way in mass motorization. Informal transit coexists with formal public transport, such as buses, metro systems, and trams, and survives by filling service gaps. In Nairobi, Kenya, 33 percent of total public transport trips are provided by matututs, consisting of a range of vehicles from minibuses and vans to pickups. Mini- and micro-buses provide 510 percent of trips in India

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]]> http://travelsfinders.com/best-places-to-visit.html/feed 0 The Best Places to Travel in 2018 http://travelsfinders.com/the-best-places-to-travel-in-2018.html http://travelsfinders.com/the-best-places-to-travel-in-2018.html#respond Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:57:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=248035 A good example of connectivity for peri-urban lower-income communities and slum settlements can be found in Cape Town. Here, the objective of the arterial road design was to link the pockets of disadvantaged communities to the city centre. Responding to the fractured internal spatial structure after the collapse of Apartheid, the vision for Cape Town was to achieve a higher density and a spatially integrated city. The resulting plan identified arterial roads, with a concentration of middle-class residents, and the roads that connected the city core with the south-east section of Cape Town, where there was an over-representation of disadvantaged

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