Shaping Claims To Urban Land

Author : Fons van Overbeek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110734539

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Shaping Claims to Urban Land by Fons van Overbeek Pdf

The concept of 'hybridity' is often still poorly theorized and problematically applied by peace and development scholars and researchers of resource governance. This book turns to a particular ethnographic reading of Michel Foucault's Governmentality and investigates its usefulness to study precisely those mechanisms, processes and practices that hybridity once promised to clarify. Claim-making to land and authority in a post-conflict environment is the empirical grist supporting this exploration of governmentality. Specifically in the periphery of Bukavu. This focus is relevant as urban land is increasingly becoming scarce in rapidly expanding cities of eastern Congo, primarily due to internal rural-to-urban migration as a result of regional insecurity. The governance of urban land is also important analytically as land governance and state authority in Africa are believed to be closely linked and co-evolve. An ethnographic reading of governmentality enables researchers to study hybridization without biasing analysis towards hierarchical dualities. Additionally, a better understanding of hybridization in the claim-making practices may contribute to improved government intervention and development assistance in Bukavu and elsewhere.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463954147

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Author : RebekaRebekah Plueckhahn
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787351523

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Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia by RebekaRebekah Plueckhahn Pdf

What can the generative processes of dynamic ownership reveal about how the urban is experienced, understood and made in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia? Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia provides an ethnography of actions, strategies and techniques that form part of how residents precede and underwrite the owning of real estate property – including apartments and land – in a rapidly changing city. In doing so, it charts the types of visions of the future and perceptions of the urban form that are emerging within Ulaanbaatar following a period of investment, urban growth and subsequent economic fluctuation in Mongolia’s extractive economy since the late 2000s. Following the way that people discuss the ethics of urban change, emerging urban political subjectivities and the seeking of ‘quality’, Plueckhahn explores how conceptualisations of growth, multiplication, and the portioning of wholes influence residents’ interactions with Ulaanbaatar’s urban landscape. Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia combines a study of changing postsocialist forms of ownership with a study of the lived experience of recent investment-fuelled urban growth within the Asia region. Examining ownership in Mongolia’s capital reveals how residents attempt to understand and make visible the hidden intricacies of this changing landscape.

Author : Mirjana Ristic,Sybille Frank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429863547

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Urban Heritage in Divided Cities by Mirjana Ristic,Sybille Frank Pdf

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities. Investigating various examples of transformations of urban heritage around the world, the book analyses the spatial, social and political causes behind them, as well as the consequences for the division and reunification of cities during both wartime and peacetime conflicts. Contributors to the volume define urban heritage in a broad sense, as tangible elements of the city, such as ruins, remains of border architecture, traces of violence in public space and memorials, as well as intangible elements like urban voids, everyday rituals, place names and other forms of spatial discourse. Addressing both historic and contemporary cases from a wide range of academic disciplines, contributors to the book investigate the role of urban heritage in divided cities in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East. Shifting focus from the notion of urban heritage as a fixed and static legacy of the past, the volume demonstrates that the concept is a dynamic and transformable entity that plays an active role in inquiring, critiquing, subverting and transforming the present. Urban Heritage in Divided Cities will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, the political sciences, history, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, archaeology, ethnology and anthropology. The book should also be essential reading for professionals who are involved in governing, planning, designing and transforming urban heritage around the world.

Author : UNICEF
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210476683

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Shaping Urbanization for Children by UNICEF Pdf

This publication calls all urban stakeholders to invest in child-responsive urban planning, recognizing that cities are not only drivers of prosperity, but also of inequity. Through 10 Children’s Rights and Urban Planning principles, the handbook presents concepts, evidence, tools and promising practices to create thriving and equitable cities where children live in healthy, safe, inclusive, green and prosperous communities. By focusing on children, it provides guidance on the central role that urban planning should play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, from a global perspective to a local context.

Author : Richardson Dilworth,Timothy P. R. Weaver
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812297171

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How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development by Richardson Dilworth,Timothy P. R. Weaver Pdf

A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political development Ideas, interests, and institutions are the "holy trinity" of the study of politics. Of the three, ideas are arguably the hardest with which to grapple and, despite a generally broad agreement concerning their fundamental importance, the most often neglected. Nowhere is this more evident than in the study of urban politics and urban political development. The essays in How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development argue that ideas have been the real drivers behind urban political development and offer as evidence national and international examples—some unique to specific cities, regions, and countries, and some of global impact. Within the United States, contributors examine the idea of "blight" and how it became a powerful metaphor in city planning; the identification of racially-defined spaces, especially black cities and city neighborhoods, as specific targets of neoliberal disciplinary practices; the paradox of members of Congress who were active supporters of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s but enjoyed the support of big-city political machines that were hardly liberal when it came to questions of race in their home districts; and the intersection of national education policy, local school politics, and the politics of immigration. Essays compare the ways in which national urban policies have taken different shapes in countries similar to the United States, namely, Canada and the United Kingdom. The volume also presents case studies of city-based political development in Chile, China, India, and Africa—areas of the world that have experienced a more recent form of urbanization that feature deep and intimate ties and similarities to urban political development in the Global North, but which have occurred on a broader scale. Contributors: Daniel Béland, Debjani Bhattacharyya, Robert Henry Cox, Richardson Dilworth, Jason Hackworth, Marcus Anthony Hunter, William Hurst, Sally Ford Lawton, Thomas Ogorzalek, Eleonora Pasotti, Joel Rast, Douglas S. Reed, Mara Sidney, Lester K. Spence, Vanessa Watson, Timothy P. R. Weaver, Amy Widestrom.

Author : David Adams,Steven Tiesdell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415497961

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Shaping Places by David Adams,Steven Tiesdell Pdf

Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, relax and invest. It contends that the production of quality places which enhance economic prosperity, social cohesion and environmental sustainability require a transformation of market outcomes. The core of the book explores why this is essential, and how it can be delivered, by linking a clear vision for the future with the necessary means to achieve it. Crucially, the book argues that public authorities should seek to shape, regulate and stimulate real estate development so that developers, landowners and funders see real benefit in creating better places. Key to this is seeing planners as market actors, whose potential to shape the built environment depends on their capacity to understand and transform the embedded attitudes and practices of other market actors. This requires planners to be skilled in understanding the political economy of real estate development and successful in changing its outcomes through smart intervention. Drawing on a strong theoretical framework, the book reveals how the future of places will come to be shaped through constant interaction between State and market power. Filled with international examples, essential case studies, color diagrams and photographs, this is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students taking planning, property, real estate or urban design courses as well as for social science students more widely who wish to know how the shaping of place really occurs.

Author : William S. Worley
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780826209269

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J. C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City by William S. Worley Pdf

Reprint of the University of Missouri Press original published in 1990. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Paulo Jorge da Silva Bartolo,Fernando Moreira da Silva,Shaden Jaradat,Helena Bartolo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000289282

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Industry 4.0 – Shaping The Future of The Digital World by Paulo Jorge da Silva Bartolo,Fernando Moreira da Silva,Shaden Jaradat,Helena Bartolo Pdf

The City of Manchester, once the birthplace of the 1st Industrial Revolution, is today a pioneering hub of the 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), offering Industry 4.0 solutions in advanced materials, engineering, healthcare and social sciences. Indeed, the creation of some of the city’s greatest academic institutions was a direct outcome of the industrial revolution, so it was something of a homecoming that the Sustainable Smart Manufacturing (S2M) Conference was hosted by The University of Manchester in 2019. The conference was jointly organised by The University of Manchester, The University of Lisbon and The Polytechnic of Leiria – the latter two bringing in a wealth of expertise in how Industry 4.0 manifests itself in the context of sustainably evolving, deeply-rooted cities. S2M-2019 instigated the development of 61 papers selected for publication in this book on areas of Smart Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing and Virtual Prototyping, Materials for Healthcare Applications and Circular Economy, Design Education, and Urban Spaces.

Author : Mack Travis
Publisher : Cornell Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501730153

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Shaping a City by Mack Travis Pdf

Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform main street into a pedestrian mall. Cornell University began an Industrial Research Park to keep and attract jobs. Developers began renovating run-down housing. City Planners crafted a long-range plan utilizing State legislation permitting a Business Improvement District (BID), with taxing authority to raise up to 20 percent of the City tax rate focused on downtown redevelopment. Shaping a City is the behind-the-scenes story of one developer’s involvement, from first buying and renovating small houses, gradually expanding his thinking and projects to include a recognition of the interdependence of the entire city—jobs, infrastructure, retail, housing, industry, taxation, banking and City Planning. It is the story of how he, along with other local developers transformed a quiet, economically challenged upstate New York town into one that is recognized nationally as among the best small cities in the country. The lessons and principles of personal relationships, cooperation and collaboration, the importance of density, and the power of a Business Improvement District to catalyze change, are ones you can take home for the development and revitalization of your city.

Author : Thomas Cowan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009100472

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Subaltern Frontiers by Thomas Cowan Pdf

The book examines how globalised urban labour and property markets are produced by agrarian actors, institutions, spaces and territories.

Author : Smaro Kamboureli,Robert Zacharias
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554583966

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Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies by Smaro Kamboureli,Robert Zacharias Pdf

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are tied together as instances of critical practices that reveal the relations and exchanges that take place between the categories of the literary and the nation, as well as between the disciplinary sites of critical discourses and the porous boundaries of their methods. They are concerned with the material effects of the imperial and colonial logics that have fashioned Canada, as well as with the paradoxes, ironies, and contortions that abound in the general perception that Canada has progressed beyond its colonial construction. Smaro Kamboureli’s introduction demonstrates that these essays engage with the larger realm of human and social practices—throne speeches, book clubs, policies of accommodation of cultural and religious differences, Indigenous thought about justice and ethics—to show that literary and critical work is inextricably related to the Canadian polity in light of transnational and global forces.

Author : Urban Land Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Land use
ISBN : UOM:35128001418670

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Land Use in Transition by Urban Land Institute Pdf

Author : Jiaxing Zhang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781315731575

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Environmental Protection and Sustainable Ecological Development by Jiaxing Zhang Pdf

This volume contains the papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Environmental Protection and Sustainable Ecological Development (EPSED2014). The contributions cover the latest research results and explore new areas of research and development, like Earth Science, Resource Management, Environmental Protection, and Sustainable

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Soil surveys
ISBN : UOM:39015007535803

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Soil Survey by Anonim Pdf