Richard A Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS R A |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6013-2334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Ethiopia Urban Expansion Initiative and knowledge exchange
Rapid urban expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa is a challenging policy problem with few demonstrated solutions. An approach for managing rapid urbanization resulted in considerable changes in planning strategies in cities in Ethiopia. An initiative from 2013 to 2016 created organizational capacities and capabilities. An external consultant facilitated knowledge exchange, but left the major planning activities to the public sector bodies. Local techn…
A new plan for African cities
Recent research indicates that a simplified approach to urban planning in Sub-Saharan African cities can address the challenges of rapid urban growth. Current plans focus too heavily on the existing area of the city and offer unrealistic agendas for future urban growth, such as densification, containment and high-rise development; plans that are often too complicated and too costly to be deployed in a developing-world context. In response, New Yo…
Recovery of the Education System in Myanmar
Myanmar's education system is in a very weakened state. The physical condition and human resource capacity of the system is poor by any standard, and teachers, whether in schools, colleges or universities, have few opportunities and little incentive for professional development. A process of recovery is getting underway, but it will take years before significant improvements are evident. Major cultural change is required in the style of leadershi…
Composition‐in‐Performance
Exhibition Review
(1998). Exhibition Review: Yeohlee: Energetics: Clothes and Enclosures. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 287-293
Developing the capacity for urban management in Africa
Clio Bemused
The frequency with which historical actuality occurs in American fiction of the last decades-one thinks of Barth's late seventeenth century New England or of his newest Arabian Nights, of Reed's and Doctorow's early twentieth century New York, of the Second World Wars of Pynchon, Heller, Kosinski and Vonnegut, of John Updike's persistent chronicling of the Americas of Kennedy and of Nixon, and of Robert Coover's presentation of the climactic year…
Painted Pottery from Jemdet Nasr, Iraq
Recovery of the Education System in Myanmar
Myanmar's education system is in a very weakened state. The physical condition and human resource capacity of the system is poor by any standard, and teachers, whether in schools, colleges or universities, have few opportunities and little incentive for professional development. A process of recovery is getting underway, but it will take years before significant improvements are evident. Major cultural change is required in the style of leadershi…
A new plan for African cities
Recent research indicates that a simplified approach to urban planning in Sub-Saharan African cities can address the challenges of rapid urban growth. Current plans focus too heavily on the existing area of the city and offer unrealistic agendas for future urban growth, such as densification, containment and high-rise development; plans that are often too complicated and too costly to be deployed in a developing-world context. In response, New Yo…
Painted Pottery from Jemdet Nasr, Iraq
Clio Bemused
The frequency with which historical actuality occurs in American fiction of the last decades-one thinks of Barth's late seventeenth century New England or of his newest Arabian Nights, of Reed's and Doctorow's early twentieth century New York, of the Second World Wars of Pynchon, Heller, Kosinski and Vonnegut, of John Updike's persistent chronicling of the Americas of Kennedy and of Nixon, and of Robert Coover's presentation of the climactic year…
Developing the capacity for urban management in Africa
Exhibition Review
(1998). Exhibition Review: Yeohlee: Energetics: Clothes and Enclosures. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 287-293
Composition‐in‐Performance
Recovery of the Education System in Myanmar
Myanmar's education system is in a very weakened state. The physical condition and human resource capacity of the system is poor by any standard, and teachers, whether in schools, colleges or universities, have few opportunities and little incentive for professional development. A process of recovery is getting underway, but it will take years before significant improvements are evident. Major cultural change is required in the style of leadershi…
A new plan for African cities
Recent research indicates that a simplified approach to urban planning in Sub-Saharan African cities can address the challenges of rapid urban growth. Current plans focus too heavily on the existing area of the city and offer unrealistic agendas for future urban growth, such as densification, containment and high-rise development; plans that are often too complicated and too costly to be deployed in a developing-world context. In response, New Yo…
The Ethiopia Urban Expansion Initiative and knowledge exchange
Rapid urban expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa is a challenging policy problem with few demonstrated solutions. An approach for managing rapid urbanization resulted in considerable changes in planning strategies in cities in Ethiopia. An initiative from 2013 to 2016 created organizational capacities and capabilities. An external consultant facilitated knowledge exchange, but left the major planning activities to the public sector bodies. Local techn…
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