AID contract amendment no. 1 to Rivkin - Carson Inc. for the feasibility and means of adapting international land-use programming techniques for extensive use in small and intermediate sized cities in developing countries

A contractor (Rivkin-Carson, Inc. of Washington, D.C.) will implement the project. Rivkin-Carson will analyze the 7-volume study from the 1971 UN Interregional Seminar on urban land use and will visit one representative city each in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to: determine the development problems of medium and small cities; identify relevant institutional, legal, social, and economic factors; and develop a typology of national circumstances such as stage of growth, government institutions, and landownership patterns which may determine both similarities and differences in approach. Finally, Rivkin-Carson will develop and field test a set of procedures for adapting selected land use planning techniques to various types of medium to small cities, and will develop a plan detailing the systematic requirements for the wide use of these procedures in terms of packaging, dissemination, training, curriculum, donor networking, timing, etc.