The present study identifies the limits and pattern of commercial activities within CBD of Peshawar. Retailing is topmost paying commercial activity and occupies the highest bid-rent location in the city. The Central Business District (CBD) is the retail heart of the city. The spatial arrangement of commercial activities happens to be very complex and their limits are dynamic in the CBD of Peshawar. The land value, rent values, taxation system, commuter behaviour, nature and transformation of commercial activities are directly dependent on this spatial arrangement and delimitation of CBD. The methodology adopted for this study is the combination of traditional rules/methods with modern tool of GIS. The results for spatial arrangement of commercial activities and delimitation of CBD are more precise which can enable the city planners and investors to achieve better sustainable development in city and regional context.
This study has a plan to measure the level of knowledge and perceptions regarding polio vaccination in south Punjab, Pakistan. To examine the dominant source of awareness concerning utilized communication channels in the Polio vaccination campaign a total of 200 respondents (100 couples) were selected as the studys sample by applying the systematic random sampling technique. The findings of the study revealed that the majority of the respondents shared the poor knowledge about Polio. As it was found that, females were more conscious and responsible towards their children as compared to their counterparts. It was also found that males were the decision making authority regarding the polio vaccination of their children. The females seemed more convinced as compared to male respondents towards polio immunization. But, they had sufficient knowledge about the importance of polio vaccination. The television was the major information source of Polio vaccination among most of the respondents.
The Cholistan desert region has the potential of agro-pastoral husbandry development with limited natural resources. The Government guided this developmental process through land allotment policy which has different implementation modality each time. The land policy has diverse impacts on the arid and semi-arid regions of the Cholistan desert. The impacts of policy on the socioeconomic conditions of the regions are associated with geo-spatial techniques. The sample settlement is geo-coded, and their responses are combined into two regions i.e. Lesser and Greater Cholistan regions. The combined responses are associated through phi coefficient and Cramér's V. The impacts of land policy in the Lesser Cholistan region are encouraging the developmental process while in Greater Cholistan, it discourages the development with poor socioeconomic conditions. The present study provide opportunity for understanding, mode of implementation and modification in land policy to achieve sustainable development.
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