Development Evolves to Embrace Our Future

Development Evolves to Embrace Our Future: "Patrick Phillips, CEO of ULI, finds that perhaps one of the bigger lessons learned from the recent decade of downtown development is that there is a demand for at least some aspects of this type of development that stretches beyond downtown cores and into outlying suburbs—not inevitably sprawl."

a holistic understanding of public Space and its dimension

I.     Public space 

 

Public space consists of outdoor/indoor spaces that come in forms of sidewalks, streets, plazas, parks, city halls, libraries (Madanipour,1992; Calthorpe 1993;.Braza 2003). 

he diversity of types and respectively of the activities they foster have been the object of study of different disciplines (sociology, political theory, urban design, anthropology ).In such case , public spaces can be defined from different yet complimentary perspectives. These different definitions can highlight the key characteristics of public space.

One notion is worth noting is that ‘’public space ‘’as a theory usually considered that its supply and definition most critical in the context of urban environments (which extends to adjacent suburban environments) .In rural settings, public space supply is relatively less critical because of cheaper land prices and lower densities.

Review of World Bank PRACTICES IN LAND TITLING AND REGISTRATION (adapted) PART 2 and 3

SOME TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Systematic title registration

A systematic adjudication and registration covers all of the parcels in a jurisdiction block by block, village by village, plot by plot basis.
The target is built upon issuing titles to all eligible land holders processing them through a public land registration office- the task duration is built around the completion of the assigned area being mostly the most important target.


Most of the efforts in systematic adjudication and registration revolves around identifying the existing rights of occupied parcels using officially issued deeds or through private conveyance
Thailand issued over 5 million title deeds in about half of the provinces in the country impacting 33 percent of its population.

Systematic registration demand extensive field based search and a simultaneous running of a wide publicity guaranteeing maximum community participation. The timing of the project depends largely on the proactivness of the government in encouraging land holders as some of them may not be ready especially if issues such inheritance or mortgage is involved.

Most of the costs involved accrue to government because of the large capital costs logistically and in staff. Countries have mostly chosen not to avoid charging the full cost of systematic registration on the land holders in order not to lose their participation. However, they have chosen to recover some of the cost at the time of the next transaction. Systematic methods may bring the costs to $40 per parcel that may be recovered over a period of over 10 years and mostly used for rural area.

BEST PRACTISES_ LAND TITLING AND REGISTRATION

Review of World Bank BEST PRACTICES IN LAND TITLING AND REGISTRATION projects

adapted from

PART 1

Introduction

Based on a review of 13 World Bank implemented land titling and registration projects with a total loan value of about US$550 million, the paper has examined the different major objectives and scope for these projects, the institutional considerations, the legal and technical issues faced, training and education that needed to be provided, the information technology dimension that was tackled and analyzed in particular the traditional and community land rights; and transparency and ethics in land registration operations.
Scope and objectives


In terms of general objectives, most of the countries have
solicited support for existing titled issues accuracy and regularization relating to either providing and building accurate spatial database through mapping, surveying and recording cadastral information as well as building the necessary information technology infrastructure for that.
Regularizing the title status is an important driver which involved also building local capacity and the support of international advisory skills. for the land holder, the most important aspect of the project is to get official accurate documentary evidence of ownership especially that recording successionary ownership is Omni-absent in some countries.

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Self esteem – a wise outlook

What Self-Esteem Is and Is Not
Nathaniel Branden, PhD
Copyright © 1997, Nathaniel Branden, All Rights Reserved
This article is adapted from "The Art of Living Consciously" (Simon & Schuster, 1997).


The judgment we pass on ourselves is the most important aspect of our perception
Self-esteem is an experience. It involves emotional, evaluative, and cognitive components. It also entails certain action dispositions: to move toward life rather than away from it; to move toward consciousness rather than away from it; to treat facts with respect rather than denial; to operate self-responsibly rather than the opposite.
Self-esteem is the disposition to experience oneself as being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and of being worthy of happiness
By extension, it is confidence in our ability to learn, make appropriate choices and decisions, and respond effectively to change. It is also the experience that success, achievement, fulfillment—happiness—are right and natural for us.