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The Ecology of Local Land Development Practices: A Case Study of Durand Mill Subdivision (Dekalb County, Georgia)
The Ecology of Local Land Development Practices: A Case Study of Durand Mill Subdivision (Dekalb County, Georgia)
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Suh, Young
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Debo, Thomas N.
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Abstract
One of the problems facing cities has been an availability of land for buildings, infrastructures
and food harvesting for the human occupants. An inclination to fixate on particular aspects of
land for tilling and building activities in order to fulfil the physical and psychological needs,
people have become locally dependent on land. It has always been the case where people have
depended on land for their survival. Because of relatively fixed territories that modem city
dwellers inhabit in fulfilling their various needs, complex political and ownership related
conflicts became prevalent in society. For this paper, it is intended to provide an example of the dynamics of interplay between nature
and people within a microcosm of the world. Within a neighborhood setting where such interplay
not only determines survival of organic elements within it, but also determines survival of
organisms in areas larger than the context in focus. In examining the processes of creating human
settlements and their supportive structures, the objective is to realize that there are other more effective approaches to creating the fundamental settings for human society.
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1999-12
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