22 20 11648 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kombe, Wilbard. Supervisor Vestbro, Dick Urban. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lupala, John Modestus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Description An account of the resource One of the challenges confronting cities in non-industrialised countries today is the fact that cities are growing at unprecedented rates, sizes and densities. Growth trends in these cities are largely unregulated. In these countries, cities have changed in at least four major ways: their size, spatial organisation or morphology, the quality and distribution of public services and infrastructure and their employment base. While this situation can be attributed to global urbanisation trends, the general poor knowledge on how these cities develop, densify and acquire certain physical characteristics has limited effective urban planning and management. At times, the pervasive knowledge gap has been associated with the lack of relevant theories and concepts to explain the evolution, growth and prevailing spatial qualities. However, the limited research in this field has also contributed to this problem. The other problem that confronts the rapidly urbanising city is continued sprawl that has been manifested in externalities of inadequate infrastructure provision and under-utilisation of scarce resources, particularly land. This thesis is an attempt to contribute towards addressing these two problem areas. The main field of study is on urban types within a rapidly urbanising city context. Dar es Salaam city was selected as a case study area. The study explores the theoretical framework for classification and analysis of settlements. The relevance of this framework in the study context is examined. At low scale level, the study provides an analysis of house forms, density, plot characteristics, spaces and space uses in formal and informal settlements. The analysis shows that urbanisation under poverty and low-density urban types greatly influence the sprawling character of the city. The increasing market-led housing development and ineffective planning responses are contributing factors to the observed unguided densification and deteriorating spatial qualities. It has also been shown that while theoretical frameworks developed from most industrialised countries can be adapted to analyse urban types in non-industrialised countries, these theories are limited in comprehending fully the growth and character of rapidly urbanising cities. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3426 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/945 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/475b5776caaac1b7f571493ebff5a2f0.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available KTH-Royal Institute of Technology Subject The topic of the resource urban form, urban growth, urbanisation, urban space, urban sprawl, urban density, developing country Title A name given to the resource Urban types in rapidly urbanising cities : Analysis of formal and informal settlments in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Andræ, Gunilla. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lourenço-Lindell, Ilda Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Description An account of the resource Trends towards ‘informalization’ are looming large in the world today. African cities have long been characterised by the presence of an ‘informal sector’ but are now experiencing new waves of ‘informalization’. Policies of liberalisation and structural adjustment are both changing the conditions under which urban dwellers make a living and encouraging states to abdicate from responsibilities for popular welfare. In this context, urbanites increasingly rely on informal ways of income earning and of social security provisioning. This book is about processes of ‘informalization’ in the West African city of Bissau in Guinea-Bissau. It begins with a historical account of the way conditions of informality have evolved through the encounter of locally specific forms of informal relations with colonialism and the socialist era. This is followed by an analysis of how disadvantaged groups who rely on informal ways of provisioning are faring in the context of contemporary changes. The study looks at both the informal income-generating activities and the social networks that urbanites engage in to sustain their income activities and their consumption. It seeks to assess whether these groups are coping with these wider changes or are becoming marginalised from networks of assistance and from activities that provide sufficient incomes. The social relations pervading access to support and livelihood resources as well as the informal rules governing such access are in focus. Forms of regulation in the informal sphere are also discussed. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1385 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/944 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/c09bd894605ece67f0101cad665c0c0a.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Stockholm University Subject The topic of the resource social network, economics, informal economy, developing country Title A name given to the resource Walking the tight rope : Informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Myers, Garth A. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Long, Joshua Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource An increasing number of North American cities are demonstrating vocal resistance to perceived homogenization and corporatization of the urban landscape. In Austin, Texas, a grassroots movement has emerged as a form of resistance to these cultural and economic changes. "Keep Austin Weird," a slogan that has evolved from grassroots cultural movement to rallying cry for local business, is now being appropriated by numerous cities experiencing similar growth patterns (i.e. Boulder, Louisville, Albuquerque, and Portland, Oregon). This particular research is investigated in light of recent studies of the "Creative Class." Austin has been dubbed a Creative City success story by scholar Richard Florida and others, but is experiencing many challenges and externalities typical of growth in so-called Creative Cities. Ultimately, this research explores the inherent interconnections between sense of place, urban governance, and popular resistance. It also questions the potential sustainability of creative strategies for growth and the importance of civic participation. Keywords: Creative Cities, Sense of Place, Localization, Urban Landscape. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5250 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/943 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/06c245f7f85773001e44fd4e973fd6f5.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Kansas Subject The topic of the resource urban geography, social movement, urban landscape, creative city, governance Title A name given to the resource Weird city : Sense of place and creative resistance in Austin, Texas Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kombe, Wilbard. Supervisor Johansson, Rolf. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Limbumba, Tatu Mtwangi Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource This study explores the factors urban residents consider when making residential location decisions. The context of the study is informal residential areas in a rapidly urbanising African city – the city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. A central concern in the study is how the urban poor make their residential location decisions; the assumption is that with income limitations the urban poor rely on other non-economic resources to enable their residential location decisions in the context of rapid urban growth and urban poverty. The study attempts to question residential location choice concepts that rely on economic approaches as well as question explanations based on the developing world experiences. The study suggests that in the absence of reliable incomes, social networks and informal channels prevail in the decision-making process. The concept of social capital where networks and social relationships are used as a resource by individuals or groups to achieve goals is explored in a residential choices framework. Demonstrated through in-depth interviews with heads of households settling close to the CBD (termed the inner city), the intermediate informal residential areas and the peri-urban residential areas; the study shows how socio-cultural factors play a role in the decisionmaking process of households. This is illustrated inter alia, in the form of informal channels for information on accommodation and residential plots, being accommodated rent-free by a relative, the actions of subsequently making short-distance moves to a location within proximity of a relative, or seeking people of the same socio-economic status. The context within which the actions have taken place has also been shown to be important in corroborating the network and relationship elements in the concept of social capital. The uncertainty that residents in rapidly urbanizing cities have to deal with on an everyday basis calls for networks and relations as an important resource for survival. The study goes further to suggest how urban planning practice can learn from the social processes. The study is based on qualitative methods such as in-depth interviewing with heads of household and key informants. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-12136 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/942 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/005a0acb690c2a2147edd029ec8640b5.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available KTH-Royal Institute of Technology Subject The topic of the resource social networks, residential location, choice of location, informal settlement, social capital Title A name given to the resource Exploring Social-Cultural Explanations for Residential Location Choices : The case of an African City - Dar es Salaam Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Davis, Diane E. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Libertun de Duren, Nora R Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007 Description An account of the resource This research presents the case of growth in Buenos Aires since the late 1970s, when the decentralization of urban planning powers in the Province of Buenos Aires began, until 2001, when an economic crisis submerged -even if transitorily- more than half of all metropolitan households below the poverty line. This thesis explores why social inequality within municipal boundaries increased after the municipalities acquired autonomous planning powers. It counts with three sections: Section I investigates how the decentralized planning practices of the municipalities of Greater Buenos Aires have impacted the growth of Buenos Aires. It explains the cluster of affluent gated communities in the poorest municipalities of the urban periphery as the outcome of the special permits that these municipalities gave to real estate developers. Section II explains how national development policies have contributed to the impoverishment of these municipalities. It depicts how these policies have generated a persistent flow of poor residents to Greater Buenos Aires at the same time that they have diminished the economic sufficiency of local governments. Section III explains why these municipalities did not resist these transformations. This research has found that national industrialization policies determined much of the fate of Greater Buenos Aires. Because of the limitations that the preexisting geography of development imposes on local participants, decentralization cannot prevent social polarization when only the highest income sectors have the resources that can activate local economies. Nevertheless within these circumstances, municipal planning practices and local polities have determined the specific geography of social inequality. Thus, participatory institutions are necessary, but not sufficient to transcend social inequality. Social inequality in the metropolis will diminish only after a development project on the national scale is developed. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42062 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/941 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/1423758e540b3b830248bfda68c81fa6.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Massachusetts Institute of Technology Subject The topic of the resource urban growth, poverty, social inequality, urban planning, local authorities, urban policy, urban development, economy Title A name given to the resource Growth and poverty in the urban fringe : Decentralization, dispersion, and inequality in greater Buenos Aires Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Castro, Ricardo L. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Leventis, Panayiotis Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Description An account of the resource This study explores and reiterates the significance carried by the notions of place, multiplicity and experience in the approaches to the study of architecture, in the shaping of cultures, and in the construction of urban (hi)stories and topographies. The research aims to reveal the existence of a transcultural space constituting the cosmos of Nicosia, capital city of the late medieval and renaissance Kingdom of Cyprus. It is argued that the natural and built environment of the city simultaneously witnessed as well as constructed this highly obscure space, whose elusive nature has not been sufficiently or comprehensively researched thus far. The purpose of this study is to unearth numerous attempts at reconciliation by medieval civilizations, and to comprehend their repeated efforts at bringing in parallel existence and understanding adjacent, but seemingly oppositional or even confrontational, cultures and spaces. The method used engages a re-interpretation of Nicosia's urban space by means of a scholarly narrative, defined as a comprehensively annotated telling of citizens' experiences through the city. While maintaining that it is this telling which better exposes the city's character, past findings on the architecture, topography, and urban experience of Nicosia are concurrently examined, some of them accepted and others re-proposed. Different architectural and ethical realities for the city, as well as varied urban and social identities, emerge as possibilities for pondering only after the superimposition of scientific findings on an interweaving web of experiences, on the remarkably phenomenal world of medieval urban space. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84521&silo_library=GEN01 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/940 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/ffeb698214321768c48be0492c2df3a7.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available McGill University Subject The topic of the resource architecture, topography, urban life, urban culture, urban history, urban space Title A name given to the resource Nicosia, Cyprus, 1192-1570 : Architecture, topography and urban experience in a diversified capital city Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pun, Ngai. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Leung, Chi Yuen Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource This thesis is an interpretative ethnographic of two illegal hawker agglomerations sustained in the post-colonial Hong Kong. The focus of concern is on researching the everyday life resistance of the urban underclass living in a polarizing global city with a renewed Bourdieuian’s theory of practice. The persistence and resistance of illegal hawking and petty trading has denoted a reoriented street/informal politics countering the regulation and upsurge of the neo-liberal governance from the present entrepreneurial state. These groups of local and trans-local underclass have struggled tacitly and tactically in the margin to gain their independence and autonomy albeit under tight state control. During the research process, the author has identified a multiple layers of informal economic markets overlapping within a poor community located in the inner urban area. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/3615 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/939 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/ead5b18388a81372a81144be6615320d.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Subject The topic of the resource informal economy, trade, market, world city, global city, Bourdieu Pierre, urban sociology Title A name given to the resource Everyday life resistance in a post-colonial global city : A study of two illegal hawker agglomerations in Hong Kong Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tammaru, Tiit. Supervisor Jauhiainen, Jussi S. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kährik, Anneli Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Description An account of the resource The thesis examines the main factors that have led to changes in socio-spatial residential pattern in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, and its surrounding region in the post-socialist period, and analyses transformation of this pattern during the period 1991–2005. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter and four publications. The data used for analysis have been derived mainly from national residential surveys (covering the period 1995–1999) and residential surveys carried out in Tartu (1998) and in new suburban settlements of the Tallinn metropolitan region (2006). There is a widespread agreement that substantial differences existed between socialist and capitalist social systems, resulting in different mechanisms of socio-spatial urban pattern formation and influencing the pattern of residential segregation. Socialist cities are generally characterised by a lower level of residential segregation as compared to capitalist cities. Transition from socialist to market economy in Central and Eastern European countries has brought along new distribution mechanisms, while many continuities originating from the previous system can also be seen. The path dependence embraces the conversion of different types of capital, suggesting that capital accumulated under the communist regime can serve as an advantage, securing a good starting position at the doorstep of the new system. All the main preconditions for enhanced residential segregation, i.e. increasing social disparities, diminished public intervention – including housing privatisation – and increasing differentiation within the housing stock have paved the way for the expansion of socio-spatial disparities in the housing market of the capital city of Estonia during the post-socialist period. Transition to the market economy has altered social stratification orders in Estonia, allowing many ‘new groups’ to join the elite, whereas the institutional setting has also supported the conversion of capital for many members of the old communist elite. The increased social disparities have led to better visibility of the previously latent residential segregation pattern, as well as to changes resulting from selective residential mobility. The results of the empirical studies reveal that by the end of the 1990s, the socio-spatial residential pattern in Tallinn was to a large extent still characterised by the continuity of the socialist structures, and no substantial residential segregation or polarisation between housing submarkets and larger spatial units could be seen. However, new market distribution rules have led to a moderate but gradual increase in socio-economic residential disparities. The findings show that the Tallinn metropolitan area is characterised by the development of pockets of wealth and poverty within an otherwise mixed socio-spatial pattern. Some low-status tenement blocks in the inner city have been subject to continuous social decline during the transition period. In the more rapidly developing parts of the city region, in particular the most central gentrifying locations and low-rise suburbs attractive to the affluent, the structures of the old system contrast most sharply with the new market structures. Apart from these extremes, a vast majority of the population remains residing in socialist high-rise housing estates. Developments in these Soviet estates lead to a significant differentiation in the socio-economic residential status between the estates, which largely reflects the socialist housing allocation principles. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/handle/10062/661 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/938 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/c17f7b62dba56d2552a859786010bf9c.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Tartu Subject The topic of the resource urban form, urban space, residential area, post-socialist city, urban change, capitalism, economics, residential segregation, privatisation, housing, residential mobility Title A name given to the resource Socio-spatial residential segregation in post-socialist cities : The case of Tallinn, Estonia Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bakker, Karen. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kooy, Michelle Élan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource This thesis documents the genealogy of the development of Jakarta’s urban water supply infrastructure from 1873 (the inception of the first colonial water supply network) to the present. Using an analytical framework of governmentality, supplemented by insights from postcolonial studies and political ecology, the thesis explains the highly unequal patterns of water access in Jakarta as the product of (post)colonial governmentalities, whose relations of power are expressed not only through discursive categories and socio-economic relations, but also through material infrastructures and urban spaces. The thesis presents material from the colonial archives, Jakarta’s municipal archives, and the publications of international development agencies and engineering consultancy firms. This is combined with primary data derived from interviews, questionnaires, and participant observation of the implementation of current pro-poor water supply projects in Jakarta. This data is used to document how water supply is implicated in the discursive and material production of the city and its citizens, and to challenge conventional developmentalist and academic analyses of water supply access. Specifically, a conceptual triad of water, space, and populations – produced through, but also productive of government rationalities – is used to explain two apparent paradoxes: (1) the fragmentation of access in Jakarta despite a century of concerted attempts to develop a centralized system; and (2) the preferences of lower-income households for non-networked water supply, despite its higher cost per unit volume. This analysis hinges on an elucidation of the relationships between urban governance and urban infrastructure, which documents the interrelated process of differentiation of types of water supply, water use practices, populations, and urban spaces from the colonial period to the present. This, in turn, is used to explain the barriers being encountered in current pro-poor water supply development projects in Jakarta. The thesis thus makes a contribution to current academic debates over the "colonial present". The contribution is both theoretical – in the emphasis placed upon the materiality of governmentality – and empirical. Finally, the thesis also makes a contribution to the urban and development studies literatures through its reinterpretation of the urban "water crisis". Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/2429/867 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/937 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/0ddcd7159fe1be5656401b2be1c05096.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of British Columbia - Vancouver Subject The topic of the resource governance, water, urban water management, post-colonial city Title A name given to the resource Relations of power, networks of water : Governing urban waters, spaces, and populations in (post)colonial Jakarta Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Spit, T. Promotor Kempen, R. van. Promotor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kokx, Anita Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Description An account of the resource The ambition to redevelop post-World-War Two [post-WWII] neighbourhoods (built between 1950-1975) is derived from the slow degradation process that often affected them during the last decades. The urban-restructuring processes mostly take place through the renewal of the housing stock by the demolition, upgrading, and selling of social housing, the building of more expensive dwellings, and the renewal of the public space and all kinds of facilities. We might expect that the neoliberal reforms of the Dutch welfare state since the 1980s have triggered intensive cooperation in urban restructuring policies between government layers, between the local authority and the housing associations, and with residents’ committees: urban governance (the processes of steering and coordinating urban policies between the public, private, and voluntary sectors to achieve collectively-agreed goals). Network-theory approaches stress this self-steering dimension of networks. In contrast, however, the political-economy approach of multi-scalar meta-governance emphasises the strong steering of the central state in local governance arrangements. Therefore, more insight in the usefulness of various theoretical governance approaches is important in the construction of a more appropriate explanation. Furthermore, the differences in perceptions among stakeholders might impair the cooperation processes and have not as yet been systematically researched. Therefore, the research focus is on local stakeholders’ perceptions with respect to intergovernmental relationships in urban policies, the problems and policies for urban restructuring neighbourhoods, and their roles and tasks in the collaboration process. How do local stakeholders enact the management of networks, and the sustaining of the relationships in the area-based partnerships? Moreover, urban restructuring processes require very high investments in social and financial terms. Identifying the factors that contribute to effective urban policies and well-functioning cooperation processes and those factors that hinder this is thus extremely important. We used a qualitative case study approach to investigate local stakeholders’ perceptions. During 2004-2008 79 semi-structured in-depth interviews were carried out in eight post-WWII urban restructuring neighbourhoods. These case studies are located in both medium-sized and large cities on several geographical locations in the Netherlands. The main conclusion is that institutional changes in Dutch urban restructuring shape the perceptions of the key actors about effective urban restructuring policy and effective urban governance in the area-based urban restructuring partnerships. They perceive a strong role for the market and closed governance arrangements that in turn restrict effective network management and a broad long-term joint-working capacity. This is in strong contrast with what we might expect from network theory. It highlights the serious limitations of normative network theory with respect to their explaining power, owing to the lack of attention paid to the actual underlying processes in urban governance practices and the neglect of the complexity of these processes. Our conclusions are in line with the multi-scalar meta-governance approach, in which the neoliberal restructuring of the welfare state in conjunction with a robust regulation of the cities is emphasised. This strongly influences urban governance practices at the local level. The research outcomes thus clearly illustrate the governance failure derived from the neoliberal practices in Dutch urban restructuring. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2010-0517-200237/UUindex.html http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/936 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/5c0eee1e052e69cc4c9156a9bfb6b591.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universiteit Utrecht Subject The topic of the resource governance, council housing estates, local authorities, housing policy, urban policy, social housing, urban renovation, inhabitants, neoliberalism Title A name given to the resource Between dreams and reality : Urban governance in the process of Dutch urban restructuring Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Langlois, André. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kitchen, Peter F Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Description An account of the resource In recent years, within the fields of urban geography and urban studies, increasing attention has been paid to the multidimensional concept of urban deprivation. The majority of work on this topic has focused on British and U.S. urban areas with less research directed at Canadian cities. This project made a contribution to the Canadian literature by examining the nature and changing geography of urban deprivation in East Montréal (a section of the central city) and the Montréal Urban Community (MUC) between 1986 and 1996. Essentially, Montréal contains a number of the city's poorest and most disadvantaged neighbourhoods and as an industrial area was particularly hard hit by the effects of de-industrialization, economic restructuring and recessions during the 1980s and 1990s. The project proposed a model of urban deprivation change, which was applied to the study area to examine its complex and changing social and economic geography. Fourteen indicators of urban deprivation were analyzed at the neighbourhood level (census tracts) in East Montréal and the MUC for three census years -- 1986, 1991, and 1996. A survey was also conducted in three selected neighbourhoods. The study identified several key trends and findings. There was a significant spreading of urban deprivation and decline during the study period from East Montréal to the remainder of the central city and to several inner suburban municipalities. However, deprivation and decline persisted within East Montréal in the troubled corridor south of Sherbrooke Street. Overall, worsening conditions were more evident during the 1991 to 1996 period compared to the previous five years (1986 to 1991). There was an increase in the level of deprivation among males, particularly with respect to unemployment and poverty. The survey revealed that the majority of respondents were satisfied with their neighbourhoods as a place to live. It also pointed to disparities between census and survey results and suggested that urban deprivation should be considered as more of a relative phenomenon. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9166 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/935 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/ca63912d1a37adb317e3aff0a86f8cc5.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Ottawa Subject The topic of the resource urban geography, poverty, disadvantaged district, urban change, spatial analysis Title A name given to the resource The geography of urban deprivation change in East Montréal and the Montréal Urban Community : 1986-1996 Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Cohen, Joshua. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource King, Loren A Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001 Description An account of the resource The deliberative turn in recent political theory ties legitimacy to public deliberation about reasons, offered for and against exercises of authority by informed and sincere citizens, who share a commitment to finding mutually acceptable terms of social cooperation. But even such reasonable citizens may disagree on important matters, and some citizens will only rarely, if ever, see their sincere reasoned judgements reflected in democratic outcomes. I argue that, to be widely perceived as legitimate in plural settings, fair deliberative procedures must not only be inclusive and self-evidently grounded in a commitment to reasonableness and mutual respect; they must further ensure that dissenting parties have a reasonable expectation of eventually transforming features of the public sphere to better accommodate their distinctive values and interests. The result is a fair deliberative pluralism that reflects the cacophonous and variegated character of the public sphere in modern democracies. But I caution that this ideal requires conditions that can sustain spatial patterns of wealth and control over land uses that undermine the interests of certain spatially fixed groups. I draw on the experiences of U.S. cities to illustrate this tension. These cities feature profound and enduring inequalities of wealth and political influence, and urbanization generates patterns of industry and habitat that reinforce these inequalities. Municipal and state politics rarely alter the prevailing incentives for home and industry location that perpetuate these patterns, and when efforts are made to do so - for instance, urban growth boundaries, or new taxation schemes to fund public services - the result is often increased antagonism between central cities and their regions. I suggest that these problematic features of cities emerge from political processes that determine how urban spaces are valued, resulting in boundaries and behaviors that undermine the democratic credentials of much political activity in urban settings. I evaluate two classes of solutions to these urban pathologies in light of class-specific constraints on mobility that originate in political strategies of control over urban spaces. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8241 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/934 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/25ccb1479255aff96a72536837701fee.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Massachusetts Institute of Technology Subject The topic of the resource democracy, participative democracy, governance, political sciences, urbanisation, urban form, inequality, urban space, city politics, urban policy, city life Title A name given to the resource Democracy and city life Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Zegeye, Abebe. Promoter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kihato, Caroline Wanjuku Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource This thesis interrogates the dynamics of urbanisation, gender and migration in contemporary Johannesburg through the voices and images of migrant women from the rest of the African continent, now living in Johannesburg. By revealing the lives of a population group that is often hidden from view, it provides details of women’s migration to Johannesburg, and their everyday encounters in the host city. Using these experiences, it sheds light on contemporary migration and urbanisation processes on the continent, expanding our knowledge of the contours of power that shape urban life in Johannesburg and elsewhere. Using the metaphor of the “border” or “borderlands” this thesis explores how women negotiate, cross and remain “in between” the multiple physical, social and imagined borders they encounter in the city. It finds that analyses that read the city through class relationships and capital accumulation do not give adequate weight to the multiple identities and forms of solidarity that exist in cities. Women’s narratives reveal that while their class is an important identity, other identities such as ethnicity, nationality and gender also powerfully shape solidarity and modes of belonging in the city. Moreover, state-centric governance frameworks that have dominated urban policy and scholarly work on the continent are often blinded to the ways in which urban dweller’s actions shift our understanding of the nature and character of state power. Women’s encounters with the state reveal the multiple regimes of power that constitute the city, and the ways in which these subvert, fragment, and yet at times reinforce state power in unpredictable ways. The epistemological approach and findings of this research bring to the fore broader questions around the paradigmatic lenses used to read, interpret and understand African cities. Dominant paradigms tend to draw on western models of cities in ways that undermine African cities’ empirical realities and theoretical potential. For as long as scholars and policy makers fail to see African urbanity in its own terms rather than in relation to how cities elsewhere have evolved, we will continue to miss critical socio-political and economic dynamics that are shaping urbanisation in the twenty first century. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2693 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/933 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/1fdb5c91764e4493fc7be8eae2298ef9.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of South Africa Subject The topic of the resource urban sociology, gender, urbanisation, migration Title A name given to the resource Migration, gender and urbanisation in Johannesburg Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jaumain, Serge. Supervisor Dagenais, Michèle. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kenny, Nicolas Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource Through a comparative examination of Montreal and Brussels, this thesis considers the way city dwellers shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space in terms of sensorial experiences and bodily practices. The analysis is based primarily on qualitative sources relating to urban life and to the relationship with the city environment during the period 1880-1914, a time when cities underwent intense transformations associated with modernity and industrialisation. The discourses and representations examined in this study were produced by a wide range of urban actors, including elected officials and municipal bureaucrats, industrialists, urban reformers, factory and housing inspectors, workers, doctors, hygienists, writers, artists and ordinary citizens. This was a period in which the city was increasingly conceptualised as a total, organic object. Consequently, the thesis first examines representations, both critical and celebratory, of these cities in their entirety, showing how the discourse about urban space was constructed through experiences with, and perceptions of, its materiality. The subsequent chapters examine, in turn, spaces of industrial production, homes and the streets. In each of these spaces, representations of these changing environments were produced in marked reference to the body and the senses. In a time marked by the rise of scientific and rational thought, the sources consulted demonstrate the centrality of personal and subjective experiences in the construction of understandings of the city. Analysing these specific milieus also affords the opportunity to consider the cultural significance of the body, as well as its place in the social tensions that characterised the period. The comparative approach through which these cities are analysed illuminates the development of similar processes in analogous, yet discrete, contexts. In this way, certain specificities of Brussels and Montreal, as well the commonalities they shared, are brought to light. The principal objective of this bipartite perspective, however, is to demonstrate, in reference to two local examples, how urban dwellers interiorised vast processes of global transformation by means of their bodies, the spaces through which they moved on a daily basis, as well as their immediate socio-cultural context. Se penchant sur les cas de Montréal et de Bruxelles en comparaison, cette thèse examine la façon dont, à travers la perception sensorielle et les pratiques corporelles des citadins, la signification sociale et culturelle de l’espace urbain se construit. L’analyse se base principalement sur des sources discursives témoignant de la vie urbaine et du rapport à l’espace d’une multitude d’acteurs durant la période 1880-1914, traversée par d’intenses transformations liées à la modernité et à l’industrialisation. Les discours émanant des élus et des fonctionnaires municipaux, des industriels, des réformateurs urbains, des inspecteurs d’usines et de logements, des ouvriers, des médecins, des hygiénistes, des écrivains, des artistes et de simples citoyens ont été consultés. S’agissant d’une époque où la ville est de plus en plus conceptualisée dans sa totalité, la thèse aborde, dans un premier temps, les discours, à la fois critiques et élogieux, concernant la ville industrielle dans son ensemble, en montrant comment ceux-ci sont construits par rapport à l’expérience et aux perceptions de la matérialité urbaine. Puis, dans les chapitres subséquents, les lieux de production industrielle, le logement et les rues sont examinés successivement. Dans chacun de ces types d’espace, les discours faisant état de l’intensification des transformations à l’environnement se déclinent, de façon prononcée, en référence au corps et aux sens. Ils témoignent de la place prépondérante des expériences personnelles et subjectives dans la construction du rapport à l’espace urbain, et ce à une époque marquée par la montée de la pensée scientifique et rationnelle. L’analyse de ces milieux permet aussi de mettre en relief la façon dont se construit la signification culturelle du corps, ainsi que la place de celui-ci dans l’évolution des tensions sociales caractéristiques de l’époque. À travers une approche comparative, l’étude de ces deux villes permet d’examiner l’évolution de processus similaires dans deux contextes analogues, mais distincts. Ainsi est-il possible de déceler certaines spécificités de Bruxelles et de Montréal, de même que des traits communs aux deux villes. Cependant, l’apport principal de cette perspective croisée est de montrer, à la lumière de deux exemples locaux, la manière dont les citadins intériorisent de vastes processus globaux de transformation par le biais de leur corps, des espaces qu’ils fréquentent quotidiennement, et de leur contexte socioculturel immédiat. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://theses.ulb.ac.be/ETD-db/collection/available/ULBetd-05242008-164612/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/932 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/852ea6ce5d4e8edd9f7ca54550ba80d2.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Université de Montréal Subject The topic of the resource urban space, urbanisation, social relations, urban history, industrialisation, body, environment Title A name given to the resource Forging urban culture: Modernity and corporeal experiences in Montreal and Brussels, 1880-1914 Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Butzer, Karl W. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaluzny, Margaret Ann Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2004 Description An account of the resource A city is more than a physical imprint. Through its architecture and human use of urban space, it is an extension of its residents, an expression of their culture. This investigation is situated within the domain of urban historical geography, focusing on both humanistic and structural dimensions of Spanish urbanism. A late medieval through early modern time frame was chosen because it compares and contrasts the Islamic and Christian experiences and imprints during periods of major urban change. By investigating change and continuity across several centuries it was possible to identify the differences between cultural, socio-political, and economic moments and trajectories. Several themes emerged during preliminary fieldwork in southern Spain in the regions of Andalusia and Extremadura, and were later developed and refined during dissertation fieldwork at the microscale of Sevilla, and barrio, San Bartolomé : (a) Spanish cities in the early modern period (1500-1800) were not predominately Roman from an earlier tradition, or a resuscitation of Roman ideas in the wake of Renaissance. Spain reflects a complex process of cultural exchange - Roman, Visgothic, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian - in planning urban settlements, in which each cultural group had a concept of "cities" from their own experience which they grafted on the structures of the existing infrastructure and expressed in rituals and architecture; (b) Urban planning decisions and use of urban space were motivated by practical considerations, people adapting to their urban environment, planning and administering their cities in a functional pragmatic way, yet ensconced within cultural traditions; (c) The religious use of space in ritual and architecture is embedded in a multi-faceted religious framework, encompassing not only theology, but identity exploration, political and social dimensions, resulting in a continually changing religious context. This research, based on extensive fieldwork, historical and archaeological data, reveals the complexity of the relationship between people and their urban environment, and rejects a single factor deterministic explanation of urbanism. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2032 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/931 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/a690f6f0ef6263c1be98d3240757e68b.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Texas at Austin Subject The topic of the resource urban history, urban geography, urban culture, urban space, history of urban planning, religion, urban society Title A name given to the resource From Islamic Ishbilya to Christian Sevilla : Transformation and continuity in a multicultural city Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Herrle, Peter. Adviser Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ivani, Hadi Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource From the third decade of the 20 century onward, Iranian cities have experienced a rapid transformation resulting from swift social, economic and political changes. These changes, stemming from many global factors such as industrial revolution, led to a new lifestyle in Iranian society and also in the cities and their residential areas. A lack of proper urban policy and management, as well as inadequate attention to the real societal and cultural needs of Iranian inhabitants has resulted in the emergence of many problems in Iranian cities and their residential neighborhoods. This thesis with an inquiry into the socio-physical aspects of the residential areas in contemporary Iran with a particular reference to the City of Mashad tries to understand the physical aspects of residential areas, activities of residents in outdoor neighborhood spaces, and also the effect of these physical characteristics on the social behavior, activities, and sense of community of the inhabitants. A multi-method approach (both quantitative and qualitative methods) is adopted to examine the objectives of this research. Also, in order to understand the influence of the physical characteristics of residential neighborhoods on social attributes of their inhabitants, a quasi-experimental method is employed. In this research, seven neighborhoods were selected as study areas and seven hundred households were interviewed using a multi-optional questionnaire. Additionally, observation by note and photo-taking was employed for data gathering during the field work. While quantitative data has been analyzed by statistical methods and by SPSS software, qualitative data has been analyzed using data reduction, and data display. The findings indicate that a lack of affordances and proper spaces in the most common urban pattern of all of the three income groups of these residential areas have led to reducing the creation and promotion of some or all of the examined social attributes like social connections, positive interactions, fulfillment of social needs, and sense of community. Also, the results demonstrate that the spatial and physical characteristics of the common urban pattern of current residential areas in Mashad are not able to form or integrate the social behavior of their residents. This inability is demonstrated through some different competitive and conflicting behavior in middle and low incomes neighborhoods and through accommodative behavior in high income neighborhoods. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://opus.kobv.de/tuberlin/volltexte/2009/2420/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/930 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/bdb84da20bab7de94e8a9a80a3fd41d5.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available TU Berlin - Technische Universität Berlin Subject The topic of the resource neighbourhood, community, residential area, urban society, urban form, social cohesion, social interaction Title A name given to the resource Socio-physical aspects of urban neighborhoods in Iranian cities : With special reference to the city of Mashad Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Gruneau, Richard. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Huang, Ying-Fen Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource This dissertation investigates the history and political economy of two Chinese cities, Shanghai and Hong Kong, in the context of debates about globalization and ‘global cities.’ My inquiry focuses on the interwoven relationships between colonization, global capitalism, ideology, and the changing nature and objectives of national and local governments. On the stage of globalization, cities have become the sites of competition for the concentration of flexible global investment money, new technologies, media and cultural industries, in order to enhance their wealth and their status in the world. Becoming a global city is now a prized goal for many cities around the world, including Shanghai and Hong Kong. Since the 1980s this has led to unprecedented global inter-urban competition. Cities not only have capitalized on their traditional roles as financial and manufacturing centers, but many have also adopted a strategy geared toward the ‘mobilization of spectacle’ to boost their global status. My work illustrates the ways in which Shanghai and Hong Kong, as two self-defined global cities, are engulfed by the formidable force of inter-urban competition in the Asia-Pacific Rim. Much of the analysis focuses on conditions arising from China's broader ideological and political move toward neo-liberalism. The Chinese government has actively promoted Shanghai into the hierarchy of the global urban order by launching a mega urban project, the Pudong Lujiazui New Area, by staging events, such as the Global Fortune Forum, and by massively rebuilding the city's skyline. Similar initiatives in Hong Kong include the creation of Hong Kong Disneyland. In both cases, these initiatives reflect a move toward a more ‘entrepreneurial’ urban culture. I argue, however, that such initiatives are more than a simple reflection of broader global political economic dynamics. Rather, the trajectories followed by both cities require an understanding of their colonial past. In the past, these cities were shaped by the spectacle of imperial capitalism. Today, they are willing participants in embracing forms of globalization that continue to be heavily influenced by the West. I conclude that both cities’ current obsession with becoming global cities entails a complex and often contradictory post-colonial complex. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/10416 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/929 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/32b4aaa0e4b3238cd5eef43d563c48e0.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simon Fraser University Subject The topic of the resource post-colonial city, globalisation, world city, global city, capitalism, urban culture Title A name given to the resource Spectacular post-colonial cities : Markets, ideology and globalization in the making of Shanghai and Hong Kong Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Humphrey, Michael. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hossain, Md. Shahadat Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Description An account of the resource This thesis explores urban poverty and the adaptations of the urban poor in the slums of the megacity of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It seeks to make a contribution to understanding and analysis of the phenomenon of rapid mass urbanisation in the Third World and its social consequences, the formation of huge urban slums and new forms of urban poverty. Its focus is the analysis of poverty which has been overwhelmingly dominated by economic approaches to the neglect of the social questions arising from poverty. This thesis approaches these social questions through an ‘urban livelihood framework’, arguing that this provides a more comprehensive framework to conceptualise poverty through its inclusion of both material and non-material dimensions. The study is based on primary data collected from slums in Dhaka City. Five hundred poor households were surveyed using a structured questionnaire to investigate the economic activities, expenditure and consumption, access to housing and land, family and social networking and cultural and political integration. The survey data was supplemented by qualitative data collected through fifteen in-depth interviews with poor households. The thesis found that poverty in the slums of Dhaka City was most strongly influenced by recent migration from rural areas, household organisation, participation in the ‘informal’ sector of the economy and access to housing and land. Almost half of the poor households in the study locations were identified as ‘hardcore poor’, that is having insufficient income for their physical needs. The remainder were found to be ‘absolute poor’, those who experienced poverty and vulnerability but varied in their levels of income and consumption. This level of poverty was also characterised by their social, cultural and political marginalisation. In summary, the urban poor remain very much dependent on their household and social networking, the main social capital they use to adapt to life in Dhaka City. Overall, the urban poor in this study experience the highest level of poverty and vulnerability in their everyday life. The thesis argues that the experience of poverty in the megacity of Dhaka for these households follows the pattern of urbanisation without development, the very opposite to their expectations and aspirations. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/25762 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/928 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/5ab089db997f22623b77e4fc53416423.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of New South Wales – Sydney Subject The topic of the resource poverty, slum, urbanisation, urban life Title A name given to the resource Urban poverty and adaptations of the poor to urban life in Dhaka City, Bangladesh Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kombe, Wilbard J. Doctoral committee Rödding, Walburga. Doctoral committee Kreibich, Volker. Doctoral committee Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hill, Alexandra Lindner, Christian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Description An account of the resource Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is one of the fastest growing urban agglomerations in Africa and projected to become a megacity (i.e., a city with more than 5 mil. inhabitants) by 2025. Rapid urban growth under poverty has outstripped the capacities of planning authorities to cope with the enormous pace of urban expansion. As a consequence informal settlements absorb almost all urban settlers leading to rapid urban sprawl into the unplanned periphery. But still only little is known about the drivers and mechanisms of ongoing urbanisation processes and the means of intervention. The need for well balanced and informed decisions becomes evident and calls inter alia for support of urban planning by geo-information technology and so-called decision support systems. This thesis approaches these needs by designing a land-use simulation model for the city of Dar es Salaam. Particularly in developing countries urban modelling inevitably comprises the challenge of setting up an appropriate database. Public authorities in Dar es Salaam lack precise and up-to-date information and were unable to contribute to the database needed for the modelling work particularly since multi-temporal information was required. Basic datasets which have been provided by another research institution were extended and updated to serve as the database required by the analysis and modelling work. The model presented is based on standard GIS software and designed along the principles of Cellular Automata (CA) which are particularly suitable to capture neighbourhood dynamics and likewise do not demand for a highly sophisticated database. Population projections by the UN Population Division have been used to determine future demand for informal residential land. The model simulates its allocation based on variables which represent major drivers of informal urban growth: natural conditions, accessibility and local-scale dynamics, i.e., so-called neighbourhood effects. These drivers have been proven to be adequate to explain and project urban growth during the process of model calibration and validation based on regression analyses. The model has been employed to project land-use patterns until 2022 as a baseline scenario. In accordance with recent local urban planning and development discourse the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the distribution of future urban growth has been simulated in four scenario settings. The results have been analysed with reference to the baseline scenario to compare the characteristics of likely urban futures. The application of the model demonstrates the considerable potential of urban growth modelling for the situation in Dar es Salaam and its transferability to cities facing similar conditions. It provides a valuable laboratory to test the drivers and mechanisms of urban growth and the associated means of intervention. During field work interim results have proven that the model is able to establish and maintain a discourse among planners and other stakeholders thus mitigating one of the major weaknesses of urban development planning - the lack of cooperation and coordination. This is an essential first step for strategic intervention into informal urban development processes given the limited resources at hand and to support planning authorities in Dar es Salaam to cope with future urban development in a pro-active manner. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/2003/27283 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/927 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/2bfe8396eb5d9621576298c6f011da27.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available TU-Technische Universität Dortmund Subject The topic of the resource urban modelling and simulation, informal urban dynamics, cellular automata, megacities Title A name given to the resource Modelling informal urban growth under rapid urbanisation : A CA-based land-use simulation model for the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Baud, I. S. A. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hendriks, Bob Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Description An account of the resource This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through ‘invited spaces’ offered by the government and ‘claimed spaces’ created by the poor. The study questions how increased contributions to poverty reduction and improvement of quality of life for Nairobi citizens can be realised in an equitable and responsible way, while contributing to development of the city and country. To adequately address this two-sided objective of economic growth and poverty reduction in the contemporary context, the study analyses both processes and impacts; moreover it examines impacts in terms of quality of life as well as influence and political rights. The study explores the individually claimed spaces of households in Nairobi’s slums, the collectively claimed spaces of hybrid mechanisms for access to peri-urban land and tenure, and the invited spaces of city-wide governance networks. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://dare.uva.nl/en/record/355296 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/926 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/6fc36004843ae9969eae1bd5a5faa9f4.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Vossiuspers UvA - Amsterdam University Press Subject The topic of the resource governance, living environment, urban space, poverty, economics, slums, city politics Title A name given to the resource Urban livelihoods, institutions and inclusive governance in Nairobi : 'spaces' and their impacts on quality of life, influence and political rights Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis