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Journal articles on the topic "Urban public action"
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l'Her, Gwendoline, Myriam Servières, and Daniel Siret. "Citizen as Sensors' Commitment in Urban Public Action." International Journal of E-Planning Research 8, no. 4 (October 2019): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijepr.2019100103.
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Based on a case study in Rennes, the article presents how a group of urban public actors re-uses methods and technology from citizen sciences to raise the urban air quality issue in the public debate. The project gives a group of inhabitants the opportunity to follow air quality training and proceed PM2.5µm measurements. The authors question the impact of the ongoing hybridisation between citizen science and urban public action on participants' commitment. The authors present how the use of PM2.5-sensors during 11 weeks led to a disengagement phenomenon, even if the authors observe a strong participation to workshops. These results come from an interdisciplinary methodology using observations, interviews, and data analyses.
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Gotham, Kevin Fox, and Krista Brumley. "Using Space: Agency and Identity in a Public–Housing Development." City & Community 1, no. 3 (September 2002): 267–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1540-6040.00023.
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Recent critiques of conventional poverty research have highlighted the need to move beyond the conceptual limitations of “neighborhood effects” models and the use of the tropes of “adaptation” or “resistance” to explain the behaviors and actions of the urban poor. We use ethnographic field observations and interviews with public–housing residents to address these limitations in the poverty literature, assess competing explanations of poor people’s agency, and provide insight into the importance of space as a mediating link between macrostructural constraints and locally situated behaviors. We theorize agency and identity as spatial phenomena—with spatial attributes and spatial influences—and examine how different spatial meanings and locations enable or constrain particular forms of social action and behavior. Our ethnographic and interview data depict several strategies by which residents “use space” to provide a measure of security and protection, to designate and avoid areas of criminality and drug activity, and to challenge or support the redevelopment of public housing. From these data we show that urban space is not a residual phenomenon in which social action occurs, but a constitutive dimension of social life that shapes life experiences, social conflict, and action.
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Gupta, SanjeevKumar, Nitika , Ayush Lohiya, and Baridalyne Nongkynrih. "Migrants to urban India: Need for public health action." Indian Journal of Community Medicine 39, no. 2 (2014): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.132718.
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McGillivray, David, Severin Guillard, and Emma Reid. "Urban Connective Action: The Case of Events Hosted in Public Space." Urban Planning 5, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): 252–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i4.3406.
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In the past decade, significant transformations have influenced the governance of urban public spaces. There has also been a growth in new public spheres associated with digital media networks, informing and influencing the production and regulation of urban space. In this article, we explore the role of digital and social media as a form of connective action supporting public campaigns about the privatisation and erosion of public space in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. We draw on analysis of Twitter data, interviews and observations of offline events to illustrate how a broad coalition of actors utilise online and offline tactics to contest the takeover of public space, confirming that that the virtual and the physical are not parallel realms but continuously intersecting social realities. Finally, we reflect on the extent to which digital media-enabled connective action can influence the orientation of urban controversies debates and lead to material change in the way urban public space is managed and regulated.
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Fastenrath, Sebastian, Lars Coenen, and Kathryn Davidson. "Urban Resilience in Action: the Resilient Melbourne Strategy as Transformative Urban Innovation Policy?" Sustainability 11, no. 3 (January 29, 2019): 693. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030693.
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More and more cities are developing strategies and implementing actions to increase their resilience to a diversity of environmental, social and economic challenges. International networks such as 100 Resilient Cities, established by the Rockefeller Foundation, are supporting cities to find and implement solutions to ‘shocks and stresses.’ This new approach to urban governance, often initiated by philanthropic organizations, is debated. On the one hand, these initiatives are celebrated as catalysts for transformational change through ‘collaboration’ and ‘co-design’ in contexts such as mobility, energy, green space or housing. On the other hand, urban resilience initiatives have been criticized for prioritizing private sector agendas and top-down approaches and hollowing out public sector tasks and democratic participation. However, little is known how urban resilience strategies are actually implemented in practice. Embedded action research on the implementation of the Resilient Melbourne strategy provides the opportunity to have a closer look at this highly contested topic. This paper provides first insights into the research project Urban Resilience in Action, using the Resilient Melbourne strategy to assess the implementation of selected actions. It shows that a reconceptualization and new analytical dimensions are needed to understand urban resilience as an urban innovation strategy.
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Dreussi, Amy Shriver, and Peter Leahy. "URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACTION GRANTS REVISITED." Review of Policy Research 17, no. 2-3 (June 2000): 120–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-1338.2000.tb00920.x.
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Lagrelius, Hannes Juhlin, and Luisa Bravo. "Universally Accessible Public Spaces for All." Journal of Public Space 7, no. 2 (June 26, 2022): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v7i2.1610.
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At the occasion of the 10th session of the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi (2020), the World Blind Union (WBU) and City Space Architecture committed to develop and publish a special issue of The Journal of Public Space with a specific focus on universally accessible public spaces. This voluntary commitment was included in the Forum’s outcome declaration, the Abu Dhabi Declared Actions (2021), intended to support accelerating the implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and urban dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during the Decade of Action. In particular this Special Issue is contributing to Goal 17 - Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development, and its outcomes are focusing on Goal 11 - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.Today, more than half of the world’s population live in cities, 15 per cent of them being persons with disabilities. By 2050, 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in urban communities including over two billion persons with disabilities and older persons requiring inclusive and accessible infrastructure and services to live independently and participate on an equal basis in all aspects of society. Local and regional governments, and other key urban stakeholders, face immense pressure to adapt strategies, policies, and urban planning and design practices to fully respond to the rights and needs of all persons with disabilities and intersecting social groups.
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Becerril, Hector, Luisa Fernanda Rodríguez-Cortés, and Karol Yañez-Soria. "Gobernanza de ciudades intermedias: aprendiendo de acciones post-desastre en la zona Metropolitana de Acapulco, México." Revista Urbano 24, no. 44 (November 30, 2021): 46–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22320/07183607.2021.24.44.04.
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This article analyses the governance patterns of post-disaster public action carried out after Hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel hit Coyuca de Benítez in 2013, a municipality that is part of the Metropolitan Area of Acapulco, Mexico, seeking to contribute towards broadening knowledge about the modes of governance of intermediate cities, and in particular, those related to disaster risk reduction. Conceptually, the concept of adaptive governance is presented to contrast and reflect on prevailing governance patterns in Coyuca. Methodologically speaking, this work is based on the sociology of public action, to analyse the reconstruction processes of infrastructure, public services, and housing, through interviews, focus groups, and diverse written sources. This paper argues that, despite the decentralization and democratization efforts of recent decades, governance patterns are highly centralized and not very adaptive, limiting the development of participatory and articulated interventions that meet people's daily needs and improve their quality of life. In this context, public action, rather than reducing disaster risks, has increased and/or generated new risks in already precarious and vulnerable urban territories. Along the same vein, this paper questions the relevance of regulatory and conceptual frameworks, such as adaptive governance, to guide significant changes, given the distance between ideal and existing governance patterns in the territories.
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Franklin-Lyons, Adam. "Performative openness and governmental secrecy in fourteenth century Valencia." Continuity and Change 38, no. 1 (April 28, 2023): 31–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0268416023000085.
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AbstractIn the fourteenth century, the urban council of Valencia tried to balance maintaining the secrecy of their government with a perceived need to publicise their actions. The council knew from experience that information vacuums could be dangerous. Feuds between noble groups made the urban council wary of the secret actions of council members. Food shortages and the anti-Jewish riots in 1391 also pressured the council to project a public face of action to quell urban unrest. In response, the city enacted a performative publicity: a public show of information dissemination concerning the normal operations of government that still occluded the actual discussions of the council.
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Weise, Sebastian, Alexander Wilson, and Geoff Vigar. "Reflections on Deploying Community-Driven Visualisations for Public Engagement in Urban Planning." Urban Planning 5, no. 2 (June 26, 2020): 59–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i2.3008.
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<p>Publicly available visualisations play an increasing role in enabling wider audiences to contribute to debates to shape place futures. In this article, we unpack such contributions to consider the conceptualisation, actualisation and deployment of these visualisations as separate entities that each require development and reflection. In doing so we draw on our experiences of using two public engagement tools that utilise visualisations of residents’ comments. Through this we explore the limitations of visualisations in public engagement designed to support differing levels of debate and their abilities to support abstract topics and geographic associations. We discuss how visualisations alone do not produce actions and how they need to be rooted in wider conversations about a place to lead to insights and action. The article calls for the linking of visualisations for place meaning and place action at different stages of much broader public engagement projects to unlock the potentials present in them in the mediatisation of built environment outcomes.</p>
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Urban public action"
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Almirall, Catherine. "Collective action for public goods provision in low-income groups: a model and evidence from Peru." Economía, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117539.
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¿Bajo qué circunstancias aparece la acción colectiva? ¿Cuáles son los factores que le dan mayoresposibilidades de éxito? ¿En qué medida las comunidades pobres tienen capacidad para organizarsecon el objetivo de mejorar sus condiciones de vida? Estas preguntas no son nuevas y se hanhecho muchas investigaciones, pero usualmente para el mundo rural. La investigación sobre laacción colectiva en el mundo urbano parece estar más desarrollada en la ciencia política que en laeconomía. La pregunta fundamental se mantiene: ¿cómo se producen y se mantienen los bienespúblicos en comunidades urbanas pobres?Este artículo presenta un conjunto de hipótesis sobre los determinantes de la acción colectiva. La accióncolectiva en barrios urbanos pobres enfrentan tres restricciones básicas: el problema olsoniano,el problema de Maslow y el problema de la exclusión. La parte empírica del artículo utiliza datosrecolectados en barrios marginales de Lima, Perú, en seis tipos de organizaciones comunales. -- Under what circumstances does collective action arise? What contributes to the likelihood that aparticular collective initiative will succeed? To what extent are poor communities capable of organizingthemselves to improve their quality of life? These questions are not new, and economic researchershave studied a number of models in rural settings. Yet the research on collective action in urban areasseems to be more in the political sciences, and an economic model is still lacking. The fundamentalquestion remains: How are public goods produced and maintained by poor urban communities?This paper presents a set of hypotheses on collective action determinants. Collective action in poorneighborhoods faces three key barriers to success: the Olsonian free-rider problem, the Maslowianproblem, and the exclusion problem. The empirical portion of this paper uses data collected inpoor urban and peri-urban areas of Lima, Peru, in six types of community organizations.
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Breyer, Merle. "Owning by doing : In Search of the Urban Commons." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-149736.
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In cities we generally distinguish between public and private space. This thesis tackles the distinction between public and private property and searches for the urban commons where property is determined by collective action and thus creates a greater spatial justice. A case study analyzes the Urban Garden Project “Trädgård på spåret” in Stockholm and shows how unconventional arrangements can generate a lively place in the urban fabric. The final discussion interprets the concept of urban commons and contemplates its classification within the planning discipline.I städer skiljer vi generellt mellan offentligt och privat utrymme. Denna avhandlingförsöker att nyansera den enkla distinktionen mellan offentlig och privat mark ochgår på jakt efter de urbana allmänningar (urban commons) vilkas ägande bestämsav kollektivism och som skapar spatiell rättvisa (spatial justice). En fallstudieanalyserar Urban Garden-projektet «Trädgård på Spåret» i Stockholm och visarhur okonventionella arrangemang har gett upphov till en livlig plats, som går långtutöver trädgårdens traditionella gränser. I den avslutande diskussionen tolkar vibegreppet urbana allmänningar och betraktar dess placering i planeringsämnet.
In Städten unterscheiden wir generell zwischen öffentlichem und privatem Raum.Diese Thesis versucht die simple Unterscheidung zwischen öffentlichem undprivatem Grundeigentum aufzubrechen und begibt sich auf die Suche nach der‚urbanen Allmende’ (urban commons) in der Eigentum durch Kollektivismus bestimmtwird und somit räumliche Gerechtigkeit (spatial justice) schafft. Eine Fallstudieanalysiert das urbane Gartenprojekt „Trädgård på spåret“ in Stockholm und zeigtauf wie durch unkonventionelle Regelungen ein lebhafter Ort entstanden ist, dersich in die Stadt verwurzelt hat und weit über die Grenzen des Gärtners hinausgeht.In der abschließenden Diskussion wird der Begriff der urbanen Allmendeinterpretiert und dessen Einordnung in die Planungsdisziplin betrachtet.
Urban Form and Social Behavior
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Fernández, Mendoza Joan Manuel. "Environmental optimization of the public space of cities Action on urban pavements and elements to support sustainable mobility." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/283543.
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El planeamiento urbano empieza a estar fuertemente focalizado en la provisión de redes adecuadas de infraestructuras que estimulen el desarrollo de una movilidad sostenible. Sin embargo, la integración de criterios ambientales en el diseño y gestión de las infraestructuras necesarias para el sustento de la movilidad urbana es mínima. Teniendo en cuenta la enorme extensión y la creciente inversión global en el despliegue de nuevas infraestructuras urbanas para el sustento de la movilidad sostenible, la carga ambiental aportada al espacio público de las ciudades puede ser significativa.
Esta tesis doctoral se centra en la caracterización del comportamiento ambiental del ciclo de vida de diseños convencionales de aceras de hormigón, asfalto y granito e instalaciones para la recarga de vehículos eléctricos de dos ruedas. Las aceras son pavimentos urbanos básicos implementados para el sustento de la actividad peatonal y ciclista como los modos de movilidad urbana más limpios. A su vez, las aceras son la matriz sobre la cual se distribuye un abanico diverso de elementos urbanos relacionados con el soporte de la movilidad sostenible. Las instalaciones para la recarga de vehículos eléctricos son un elemento urbano que se está implementando masivamente en las ciudades para promover la electrificación del parque de vehículos urbanos como una estrategia prometedora para reducir significativamente el consumo de petróleo y las emisiones contaminantes de la movilidad motorizada. A través de la aplicación de la metodología de Análisis del Ciclo de Vida se identifican los diseños ambientalmente más óptimos para reducir la carga ambiental aportada al espacio público y contribuir a incrementar el valor ambiental de promover la movilidad sostenible en las ciudades.
Asimismo, la tesis busca identificar soluciones para mejorar el comportamiento ambiental de aquellos elementos que presentan un alto impacto con el fin de incrementar las ventajas ambientales alcanzadas en la escala urbana. Por un lado, se analiza desde una perspectiva de Ecología Industrial el potencial de producción limpia de losas de granito utilizadas en construcción. Por otro lado, se aplican principios de ecodiseño en la conceptualización de una eco-pergola (mobiliario urbano) que puede contribuir a sustentar una movilidad urbana multimodal (peatonal y bicicleta eléctrica).
Como resultado del desarrollo de la tesis doctoral, se proveen inventarios completos y desagregados de los recursos movilizados (energía, agua y materiales) e impactos ambientales asociados a cada elemento objeto de estudio, se identifican puntos críticos y se definen una serie de criterios y buenas prácticas para la toma de decisiones que conlleven a optimizar el comportamiento del espacio público de las ciudades.Urban planning starts to be heavily focused on the provision of adequate networks of urban infrastructures to stimulate a shift towards sustainable mobility in order to alleviate resource consumption and environmental impacts in cities. Nevertheless, the integration of life cycle environmental criteria in the design and management of the urban infrastructures required to support sustainable mobility is usually missing. Given the vast span and increasing global investment in the deployment of new infrastructure, the environmental burden imposed to the urban public space can be significant. This dissertation concentrates on the characterization of the life-cycle environmental performance of conventional designs of (concrete, asphalt and granite) sidewalks and charging facilities for electric vehicles (two-wheelers). Sidewalks are basic urban pavements implemented to support walking and cycling as the cleanest modes of urban mobility. Sidewalks also represent the matrix for the layout of different urban elements required to support sustainable mobility. Charging facilities for electric vehicles represent one urban element being heavily implemented in cities to encourage the electricification of the urban vehicle fleet as a promising strategy to cut oil consumption and pollutant emissions from motorized mobility. Life Cycle Assessment is applied in order to identify the most environmentally-friendly solutions and best practices to minimize the environmental burden imposed to the urban public space, thereby increasing the value of greening urban mobility. The dissertation also looks for solutions to improve the environmental performance of those product systems with high environmental footprint in order to achieve major environmental improvements at the urban scale. On the one hand, the potential for cleaner industrial production of granite tiles used in construction is analyzed from an Industrial Ecology approach (technological improvement, rainwater harvesting and by-product synergies). On the other hand, ecodesign principles are applied in the conceptualization of an eco-pergola (street furniture) that can contribute to support multimodal (pedestrian and e-bike) mobility. As a result, this dissertation provides complete and disaggregated inventory data of the mobilized resources (energy, water, materials) and environmental impacts of the life cycle of each product system, identifies the most relevant hot-spots for environmental improvement and defines a set of criteria and best-practices for sustainability-based decision-making to minimize the environmental burden of the urban public space.
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Bissou, William II Paulin. "Approche par les instruments de l’action publique au Cameroun : le cas de la planification urbaine des villes de Douala et Yaoundé." Thesis, Reims, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021REIMD003.
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Cette thèse de doctorat porte sur les instruments d’action publique de planification urbaine dans les villes de Douala et Yaoundé. Elle s’inscrit dans la dynamique des recherches sur le politique en Afrique. Elle interroge la trajectoire de l’Etat à travers son déploiement dans un domaine concret de politique publique qui est la planification urbaine.Deux cadres géographiques ont été mobilisés pour mener cette étude à savoir Douala la capitale économique du pays et Yaoundé la capitale politique.46 entretiens, le recueil des documents d’archives et de travail, ainsi que l’observation non participante ont servi à construire une analyse de sociologie politique reposant sur les rapports gouvernants/gouvernés. Les principaux résultats de l’étude montrent une forme de réappropriation des instruments d’action publique et une contextualisation de la planification urbaine influencées par les dynamiques propres à chaque territoire. L’élaboration des instruments d’action publique ainsi que leur mobilisation dans le cadre de la planification évoluent en fonction de la nature de l’Etat. Cette approche par les instruments permet d’avoir une vue globale sur le secteur de l’urbanisme et les politiques de développement élaborées par le Cameroun depuis l’époque coloniale jusque nos jours. Cette politique de planification urbaine qui émerge dans le contexte colonial se veut d’abord territoriale avant de se sectoriser avec la mise en place des plans FIDES. L’Etat post-indépendant va hériter de cette orientation sectorielle. Face aux difficultés récurrentes et au vu des défis contemporains de la gouvernance urbaine, la tendance est désormais à une (re)territorialisation de cette action publiqueThis Phd thesis focuses on public policy instruments for urban planning in the cities of Douala and Yaoundé. It is part of the dynamics of political research in Africa. It questions the trajectory of the state through its deployment in a concrete area of public policy, which is urban planning.Two geographical locations were mobilized to carry out this study, namely Douala the economic capital of the country and Yaounde the political capital.46 interviews, the collection of archival and working documents, as well as the non-participant observation were used to build an analysis of the political sociology based on the relations between the rulers and the ruled. The main results of the study concern a form of reappropriation of public action instruments and a contextualization of urban planning based on the specific realities of each territory. The development of public policy instruments as well as their mobilization within the framework of planning evolves according to the nature of the state. This instrument-based approach provides a comprehensive view of the urban planning sector and the development policies developed by Cameroon from the colonial era till date. This urban planning policy, which emerges in the colonial context, is primarily a territorial before becoming sectored policy with the establishment of the FIDES plans. The post-independent state will inherit this sector orientation. Faced with recurrent difficulties and considering the contemporary challenges of urban governance, the trend is now towards a (re) territorialization of this public action
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Baticle, Johana. "Espaces publics et action artistique à Montpellier : de nouveaux enjeux culturels pour la ville contemporaine." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MON30040.
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Cherchant à croiser projets urbain et culturel notre position critique met en avant les tendances principalesqui articulent enjeux culturels et enjeux urbains. Les arts et la culture servent le discours urbain plus qu'ils ne cofabriquentle projet de ville. Aujourd'hui l'art dans la ville se territorialise en un espace qui devient événement. Nousnous appuyons sur l'analyse de situations concrètes, où l'art investit la ville et où les pratiques culturelles migrentdes lieux dédiés (musées, théâtres) vers l'espace public. Notre étude de cas porte sur les pratiques culturelles de etdans l'espace public avec les Zones Artistiques Temporaires (Zat) à Montpellier de 2010 à 2015. D'une part, nousobservons la spatialité et la matérialité de neuf quartiers investis par les Zat, d'autre part, nous qualifions le temps, lemouvement ct l'action en étudiant comment les thèmes artistiques interrogent la ville concrète, l'imagibililé urbaineou encore la ville pratiquée. Enfin nous observons les transformations des espaces publics investis. En mettant enrésonance le projet culturel des Zat ct le projet urbain pour Montpellier il l'horizon 2040 nous cherchons ilproblémariser la possible transformation concrète du milieu urbain par l'action artistique. En imaginant unealternative pour le futur nous cherchons à faire mieux avec moins pour favoriser les expressions de l'art et de laculture mais aussi à agir sur la qualité des espaces à vivre de la ville. Dans l'idée d'une écologie culturelle, la thèsevise un potentiel de requalification des espaces publics en mettant en évidence les leviers d'une diffusion plus largede la culture dans la ville. Nous menons une réflexion sur les supports de cette diffusion autour des espaces pour lesarts et la culture à l'intérieur du projet urbain, mais aussi à travers diverses temporalités, le durable, le temporaire etl'éphémère. Dans un territoire qui révèle de trop grandes disparités, la question de la diffusion culturelle dans unformat d'éducation populaire cherche à atteindre tous les publics. Les pratiques culturelles s'appuient alors sur unespace public média de sa propre constitution ct des spécificités locales mais aussi sur une action artistique qui agitcomme médiateur sur l'altérité des lieux. A la recherche de valeurs symboliques, dans un projet urbain spatial ctsocial, les dimensions éphémère et temporaire sont susceptibles de répondre d'une plus large diffusion culturellemais aussi d'une plus grande acceptabilité grâce à la mobilité et au nomadisme envisagés par les dispositifs. Laquestion du vivre-ensemble est alors entendue au travers des possibilités de communautés éphémères pourintensifier l'urbanité. L'action artistique doit être en mesure de proposer des dispositifs multi-sensoriels visant àinduire des pratiques dans l'espace public. Au travers d'un art de j'espace dans l'espace, avec des esthétiques quipeuvent être temporaires voire éphémères mais surtout qui induisent des pratiques sensibles, il s'agit de proposer descentralités temporaires ct mobiles au travers d'un espace public plus muableSeeking to cross urban and cultural projects our critical position highlights the key trends that articulatecultural and urban issues. Arts and culture serve the urban discourse more than they co-produce the city project.Today art in the city temtorializes itself in a space that becomes an event. We rely on the analysis of concretesituations, in which art inveslS the town and cultural practices migrate from dedicated places (museums, theaters) tothe public space. Our case study focuses on cultural practices in the public space as shown by the Temporary ArtisticZones (Zat) in Montpellier from 2010 to 2015. On the one hand, we observe the spatiality and materiality of ninedistricts Ï.nvested by these Zat; on the other hand, we qualify time, movement and action by analyzing how artisticthemes question the concrete city, urban imageabilily, or the practiced city. Finally wc watch the transformation ofthe public spaces investigated. By attuning the Zat cultural project to the urban project for MontpeUier in 2040, weseek to question a possible real transformation of urban environment through artistic action. By imagining analternative for the future we aim to do more witb less in order to encourage expressions of art and culture but also toact on the quality of the city's Uving spaces. Bearing in mind a cultural ecology, the thesis ai ms to the potentialredevelopment of public spaces by highlighting levers ofa wider dissemination of culture in the city. Wc conduct areflection on the supports of this dissemination around spaces for arts and culture within the urban project, but alsothrough various time frames, sustainable, temporary and ephemeral. ln a territory wbich reveals significantdisparities, the issue of cultural diffusion in a popular education format endeavors to reach ail audiences. Culturalpractices are then based on a media public space of its own constitution and local specificities but also on an artisticaction which acts as a mediator on the otherness of places. Searching for symbolical values in a spatial and socialurban project, the ephemeral and temporary dimensions are likely to ensure a wider cultural diffusion but alsogreater acceptability through the mobility and nomadism imagined through these devices. The question of livingtogether is then tacklcd through the possibilities of ephemeral communities aiming to intensify urbanity. Artisticaction must be able to offer multi-sensory devices capable of inducing practices in the public space. Through an artof space inside space, witb aesthetics that can be temporary or even ephemeral but above ail that induce sensitivepractices, it offers temporary and mobile centralities through a public space that is more mutable. ET
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Hernandez, Pulgarin Jose Gregorio. "Renaissance" à Montpellier et "refondation" à Pereira : invocations mythiques et conceptions du temps dans des opérations d'urbanisme en France et en Colombie." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC1101.
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Montpellier en France et Pereira en Colombie sont deux villes intermédiaires où se sont réalisées depuis la fin du XXe siècle des opérations d’urbanisme d’une grande envergure. À Montpellier, l’opération de développement urbain Port Marianne, et à Pereira, l’opération de rénovation urbaine Ciudad Victoria, se sont construites dans le but de résoudre certains problèmes en matière d’urbanisme mais aussi avec l’espoir de transformer radicalement l’économie des villes. Dans cette thèse, je propose d’analyser la manière dont ces opérations sont présentées comme légitimes par ceux qui construisent la ville matériellement à partir de représentations, les concepteurs de la ville : les élus, les techniciens à l’urbanisme, les architectes, la presse, etc. Or, je ne m’occupe pas des raisons techniques, économiques ou politiques, mais d’analyser certains dispositifs culturels qui sont mobilisés afin de montrer ces opérations comme nécessaires, voire indispensables. Ces dispositifs culturels abordés sont de deux types. D’un côté, apparaissent les discours de nature mythique, idéologique et identitaire qui sont mobilisés pour montrer que les opérations doivent se réaliser. Ainsi, par exemple, une opération peut être conçue comme la source d’une redéfinition de l’identité des villes qui est en accord avec les attentes idéologiques d’attractivité ou de compétitivité entre elles-mêmes. D’un autre côté, j’analyse les conceptions du temps passé, présent et futur, les temporalités, qui sont présentées discursivement comme des sources de légitimité des opérations. Ainsi, certaines notions temporelles comme celles de tradition, de crise de la ville, de développement, de progrès ou de modernité sont mises en récit par les concepteurs des villes afin de montrer que les opérations doivent se réaliser, car elles sont inscrites dans le sens du temps des villes et répondent aux attentes de développement. La comparaison des fictions opératoires, créées par les discours concernant ces dispositifs de légitimation culturelle et temporelle, est réalisée en recourant à une perspective plutôt anthropologique au niveau des outils d’analyse et en incluant une perspective méthodologique éclectiqueMontpellier (France) and Pereira (Colombia) are two intermediate cities where large scale urbanism operations have taken place since the mid-twentieth century. In Montpellier, the urban development operation called Port Marianne, and Pereira the urban renewal operation called Ciudad Victoria, were made with the objective of solving certain urban problems, but also with the hope of radically transforming the economy of both cities. In this research, I propose to analyze the way in which these urban operations are presented as legitimate realizations by those who build the cities both materially and through representatives, that is, the city producers: city administrators, urbanists, architects, the press, etc. However, I do not intend to deal with technical, political or economic reasons that might legitimize these operations. I propose to analyze certain cultural devices that are put to work in order to demonstrate that these operations are necessary, or even more, indispensable. The devices analyzed here are two kinds. On one hand are the mythic, ideological, and identity devices that are put to work in order to demonstrate that the operation must take place. For example, an urban operation might be thought of as a source for the redefinition of the city identity that is consistent with the ideological expectations around interurban competitiveness. On the other hand, I propose to analyze the concepts of past, present and future time, the temporalities that are presented throughout the discourse as sources of legitimacy of urban operations. In this way, certain notions relative to time like those related to tradition, city crises, development, progress, or modernity, are used by the city producers to demonstrate that the operations must be done because they are consistent with the historic and temporal sense of the city and because they respond to the expectations of development. The comparison of the fictions created by the legitimation discourse of a cultural or temporal nature is done by using an analysis perspective that is close to Anthropology in conceptual terms, and an eclectic perspective of methodologies
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Ferguson, Yann. "Politiser l'action publique : une approche par les instruments : le cas du programme Constellation." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20026/document.
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Les grands projets urbains sont devenus des éléments indispensables des stratégies de développement local, dans un contexte de compétition entre les territoires. Leur pilotage nécessite souvent une remise en question des formes organisationnelles convenues de l'action publique. Ainsi, le programme Constellation, opération toulousaine réunissant une zone industrielle et deux éco-quartiers, a été l’occasion de ré-instruire les connaissances et les pratiques urbaines locales. Ce processus se matérialise dans des instruments d’action délibérément mobilisés pour domestiquer l’incertitude générée par la mise à distance du fonctionnement traditionnel du système de fabrication de la ville. Ces instruments, qui peuvent être des chartes, des équipes-projets, des procédures de désignation d’urbanistes ou d’architectes, des normes qualité ou des bases-vie de chantier, mobilisent de nouveaux acteurs et de nouvelles formes managériales. Les usagers leur attribuent une capacité à transformer la culture du projet urbain. Cette thèse vise à comprendre comment les acteurs instrumentent leur action en situation d’incertitude. Elle montre que l’action instrumentée active quatre types de médiation, pragmatique, épistémique, interactive et symbolique, dont les combinaisons produisent quatre mécanismes de confinement des problèmes : la socialisation et la communalisation, la sélection et la socialisation. L’ensemble rend compte d’une politisation de l’action, dans la mesure où les instruments transforment la nature des échanges, passant d’échanges économiques à des échanges politiquesLarge urban projects have come to play an indispensible part in local development strategies, in the context of competition between areas. Their successful conduct often requires calling into question conventional ways of organizing public action. The Constellation project in Toulouse, including an industrial zone and two eco-neighborhoods, provides an occasion to re-examine local urban knowledge and practices. This process is seen in the tools used deliberately to calm the incertitude caused by departures from traditional ways of building cities. They can include charters, team projects, procedural designations of urbanists and architects, drawing up of quality standards and managing on-site locales. They mobilize new participants and new forms of management. Users of the site accredit them with an ability to transform an urban project’s culture. This doctoral thesis intends to provide an understanding of how participants use these tools in a situation of uncertainty. It shows how action involves four types of mediation: pragmatic, epistemic, interactive, and symbolic. Combinations of these produce four mechanisms for delimiting problems: association and community building, selection and socialization. The whole gives an account of the politicization of action insofar as the tools transform the nature of exchanges, from economic to political ones
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Modula, Michael Vincent. "Trust, Knowledge, and Legitimacy as Precursors to Building Resident Participation Capacity in Public Land-Use Decisions." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420761351.
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Modula, Michael Vincent. "Trust, Knowledge, and Legitimacy as Precursors to Building Resident Participation Capacity in Public Land-Use Decisions." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420761351.
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Kelly, Janet, and janet kelly@flinders edu au. "Moving Forward Together in Aboriginal Womens Health: A Participatory Action Research Exploring Knowledge Sharing, Working Together and Addressing Issues Collaboratively in Urban Primary Health Care Settings." Flinders University. School of Nursing & Midwifery, 2009. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20090324.084222.
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This collaborative qualitative research explored ways of improving Aboriginal womens health and well-being in an urban Adelaide primary health care setting. This involved respectful knowledge sharing, working effectively together and addressing issues related to colonisation, discrimination and exclusion. It was identified that while Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal professionals are committed to Closing the Gap in health disparities, many have questioned how best to do so within the current health system. Therefore, this research focused on filling gaps in knowledge about the spaces where Aboriginal community women, and Aboriginal and non Aboriginal health professionals can work collaboratively regardful and regardless of health system polices, programs and practices.
A strong commitment to local community preferences and national Aboriginal health research ethics enabled Aboriginal community women and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal heath professional co-researchers to be actively and meaningfully involved with me in both the research processes and outcomes. A modified Participatory Action Research (PAR), with repeated cycles of Look and Listen, Think and Discuss and Take Action emerged as an effective model of collaborative practice, suitable for health care and research.
Four unique yet interconnected areas of collaboration developed, each highlighting particular aspects of culturally safe knowledge sharing and collaboration in health care. The first involved working with Aboriginal community women, acknowledging and addressing their most health and well-being priorities related to high levels of stress in their lives. Collaborative action involved creating a womens friendship group, seeking and accessing a range of services, and co-presenting our findings at conferences
The second Collaboration Area offers insights into the practicalities and difficulties experienced by staff as they tried to provide health services for Aboriginal women in a newly developing Aboriginal health organisation. The third Collaboration Area focused on the challenges and benefits of collaboration between sectors, in particular a local high school and the Aboriginal health service. We explored effective ways to work across sectors and engage young Aboriginal women in health programs. The ongoing impact of discrimination, exclusion and colonisation for this next generation of Aboriginal women was highlighted. The fourth Collaboration Area involved wider collaboration and road testing our collaborative methodology in a broader environment. A diverse group of co-researchers came together to plan, implement and evaluate a de-colonising national action research action learning conference embedded in Aboriginal preferred ways of knowing and doing.
Findings are discussed under the three central themes of knowledge sharing, working together and addressing health care access and colonisation and key recommendations for the future are proposed. This research has reinforced the need identified in Aboriginal health documents for policy, program and practice commitment to holistic and collaborative approaches such as comprehensive primary health care and participatory action research. While the National Apology and Close the Gap campaign have provided opportunities for change, these need to be followed by tangible action at all levels of health care.
Books on the topic "Urban public action"
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Project, Mirzapur Healthy City, WHO Healthy Cities Project, N.I.U.A (Organization : India), and Regional Brainstorming Workshop (2000 : Mirzāpur, India), eds. Mirzapur Healthy City Project: Report on action research. New Delhi: National Institute of Urban Affairs, 2003.
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Blackman, Tim. Planning Belfast: A case study of public policy and community action. Aldershot, Hants, England: Avebury, 1991.
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Onibokun, Adepoju G. Public utilities and social services in Nigerian urban centres: Problems and guidelines for action. [Canada]: International Development Research Centre, 1987.
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M, Sudarshan Ratna, Pande Suchi, and Institute of Social Studies Trust (New Delhi, India), eds. Ensuring public accountability through community action: A case study in East Delhi. New Delhi: Institute of Social Studies Trust, 2007.
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Hantzopoulos, Maria. Restoring dignity in public schools: Human rights education in action. New York: Teachers College Press, 2016.
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Smith, Jerry. Community development and tenant action. London: Community Development Foundation, 1992.
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Michalopoulos, Charles. Assessing the impact of welfare reform on urban communities: The Urban Change Project and methodological considerations. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., 2000.
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Brian, Lewis. New for old: The story of the first Housing Action Trust. Pontefract: Pontefract Press, 1998.
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Ginzberg, Eli. Local health policy in action: The Municipal Health Services Program. Totowa, N.J: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985.
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United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development., ed. From reinvention to action, 15 ways the new HUD helps people. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 1995.
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Mitteregger, Mathias, Emilia M. Bruck, Aggelos Soteropoulos, Andrea Stickler, Martin Berger, Jens S. Dangschat, Rudolf Scheuvens, and Ian Banerjee. "ACTION PLANS." In AVENUE21. Connected and Automated Driving: Prospects for Urban Europe, 141–58. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64140-8_6.
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AbstractMedia outlets, as well as specialist engineering and science journals, have repeatedly been stating that connected and automated driving will soon be possible on all public roads. But in recent years, doubt has increasingly been cast on this supposed certainty. The analysis conducted as part of this research also suggests that the development of technologies for CA vehicles and infrastructures is moving more slowly than initially anticipated.
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Stafseng, Vebjørn Egner, Anna Marie Nicolaysen, and Geir Lieblein. "Key Characteristics of Co-produced Urban Agriculture Visions in Oslo." In Urban Agriculture in Public Space, 175–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41550-0_8.
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AbstractIn this education research-oriented chapter, we present the findings from student and stakeholder co-produced visions, hindering and supporting forces and proposed action steps for urban agriculture initiatives in Oslo, Norway. Students in agroecology conducted participatory visioning workshops with initiatives in 2018 and 2019 and wrote reports based on these workshops. In our analysis of these reports, we found that the key characteristics of the visions could be categorized in terms of social, nature, and governance. Collaboration, lack of funds and time and other initiative-specific forces were common challenges to achieving the vision. Strong political support and increased interest in urban agriculture emerged as forces supporting the future visions. The proposed actions could be grouped in the categories of ecology, food, education, organization, social and municipality. The insights of our research on urban agriculture in public space gave us new perspectives and translations and can inform new and innovative visions.
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Paulhiac Scherrer, Florence. "Temporary Urbanism in Pandemic Times—Disruption and Continuity of Public Action in Montreal." In The Urban Book Series, 113–38. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45308-3_6.
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AbstractFaced with the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Montreal and its boroughs quickly deployed temporary facilities aimed at sharing public space and promoting active mobility (cycling and walking). This so-called strategy of “temporary urbanism” is common to North American cities from the spring of 2020. Several inventories of such measures demonstrate this. However, few of these databases open up the black box of the decision-making processes and levers that the actors have implemented to deploy this urbanism. Thus, the chapter is devoted to these processes, explaining the Montreal case in detail. It reveals the main characteristics of Montreal’s public action. As such, it highlights the local particularities of it, considered at the same time as agile, a source of numerous conflicts but also very adaptative. To conclude, we emphasize on two dimensions. First, the pandemic demonstrates that Montreal public actors had resources to respond to the crisis, rooted in action routines but also in a capacity for innovation. Secondly, that this incremental dimension of temporary urbanism is now considered by public actors as an opportunity to implement sustainable changes, in the longer term, through the deployment of a “transitory urbanism”.
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Eriksen, Arild, Deni Ruggeri, and Esben Slaatrem Titland. "Urban Agriculture and the Right to the City: A Practitioner’s Roadmap." In Urban Agriculture in Public Space, 223–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41550-0_10.
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AbstractThis essay approaches urban agriculture from the perspective of an architect and urban farmer/beekeeper practicing bottom-up, participatory design in Oslo. It discusses the motivations for the co-creation of livable, experientially rich, place-making, and inclusive urban agriculture in public space to complement to compact city development. It touches on a few critical dimensions of urban agriculture in public space, which relate to the private and corporate claim on these landscapes, and their potentiality as multifunctional and abundant contributors to sociocultural and ecological diversity, food security, health, and democratic discourse. It also critiques its current aesthetics of impermanence and temporality and questions the notion that the joy and a sense of freedom urban agriculture brings to a community should be built upon and enriched by future development and policy. Rather than a replicable model of urban gardening, what emerges from this essay is a rich collection of stories of regeneration and change and of collective action and cultivation.
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Thébert, Mariane, Manon Eskenazi, Matthieu Adam, Guy Baudelle, Laurent Chapelon, Adrien Lammoglia, Patricia Lejoux, Sébastien Marrec, Adrien Poisson, and Michaël Zimmermann. "Public Action in Times of Crisis: Trajectories of Cycling Policies in Four French Cities." In The Urban Book Series, 45–69. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45308-3_3.
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AbstractFrench local authorities developed over 500 km of pop-up cycling infrastructure to face the Covid-19 pandemic. These experiments raise questions about the impact of a crisis situation on public decision-making and policies. This chapter reports on a comprehensive analysis of the roll-out of the Covid cycle lanes in four metropolises—Paris, Lyon, Montpellier, and Rennes—with a particular attention to the factors of continuity or interruption pre-and post-crisis. It retraces the involvement in collective action of the different actors during the crisis peak, the reactions sparked by these measures, and the status of the temporary infrastructure in the local mobility policy landscape a year after it was introduced. It shows that the crisis has served more as an accelerator than as a course changer for public policies introducing elements of change for the future by slightly modifying the actors’ interests, representations, and instruments.
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Bresciani, Sabrina, Francesca Rizzo, and Francesco Mureddu. "Indicators of Social Innovation for Cities’ Action Plans Evaluation." In SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, 39–92. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53111-8_3.
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AbstractFor each of the ten categories of the social innovation component of an action plan (SIAP), a set of indicators is developed which can be utilized by the public administration to monitor implementation and outcome of social innovation actions at urban level.
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Mastrolonardo, Luciana. "The Urban Riverfront Greenway: A Linear Attractor for Sustainable Urban Development." In The Urban Book Series, 557–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29515-7_50.
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AbstractThe strategy for sustainable mobility of December 2020 by the European Commission defines the alignment of the transport sector with the European Green Deal, for a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions related to transport by 2050. This involves linear infrastructure of sustainable mobility in our cities. The research has a focus on strategies to increase sustainable travel, with a view to improving the quality of public space and reducing the weight of heavy transport. A coordinated planning directs actions toward mitigation tools and sharing of public spaces through necessarily systemic interventions, which identify a common scenario, involving increased use of city greenways connected with urban node. Working on the level of cycling in Pescara case study (IT) means to act to a systemic approach involving different kind of action on infrastructure and on active participation of inhabitants. Among all a focus was developed on the urban greenway on the riverfront, crossing stretches of great environmental and landscape quality with its seven kilometers, which potentially could connect peripherals part of the cities, currently in a state of semi-abandonment. The Biciplan guidelines, meeting the objective by a project involving youth activism, could help achieve sustainability objectives and improve environmental performance, starting from its integrated enhancement, developing the axis in an urban sense, reconnecting the city and improving the peripheral mobility of the city. The consequence of coordinated planning and directing actions toward mitigation tools are followed in the reduction of emissions at the local level, contributing to proximity of travel.
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Woldetsadik, Lia Gabremariam. "The State, Trust and Cooperation: Local Government-Residents’ Joint Neighbourhood Upgrading Initiatives in Addis Ababa." In The Urban Book Series, 13–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06550-7_2.
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AbstractCollaborative planning is acknowledged to enable several positive outcomes including the building of local knowledge and capacities. It is deemed to facilitate mobilisation of resources, support, acceptance, coordination of action and ownership. However, the collaborative planning literature’s focus on techniques to perfect the process design (i.e., regarding modalities for structuring participation, communication and deliberations) to transform social and political institutions pays little attention to the penetration of planning practices by the overall institutional environment that impede or enable operationalising these techniques. And based on Western liberal realities, it presumes that a minimum level of trust and at least democratic culture and cooperative norms needed for collaborative planning exist everywhere. As de Satgé and Watson (Urban planning in the global south: conflicting rationalities in contested urban space, Springer, 2018) argue, the “thin and instrumental assumptions” that planning theories make regarding the applicability of public participation or collaborative planning do not fit in with what is on the ground in other contexts, such as what is found in many parts of Africa. The chapter aims to bring the state back into the collaborative planning discourse by analysing how government systems affect the conceptions and actions of the different urban actors in collective action. Through local government-residents’ joint urban upgrading projects in two localities of Addis Ababa, it provides insight into the link between government systems, trust, planning practices and cooperation.
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Bresciani, Sabrina, Francesca Rizzo, and Francesco Mureddu. "Impact Logic: Social Innovation Categories for Cities’ Action Plans." In SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, 21–38. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53111-8_2.
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AbstractHow can cities’ public administrators, policy makers or transition teams be supported in selecting and monitoring social innovation actions that support people-centred systemic solutions to reduce carbon emissions? Including social innovation in cities’ climate city contracts and action plans, requires decision makers to consider the impact logic and impact pathways: which social innovation initiatives could lead to expected outcomes? In order to develop such impact logic, it is necessary to define categories of social innovations that can be implemented in urban or reginal action plans, for then identifying indicators for each category.
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Hodgson, Kimberley. "Integrating Equity as a Central Theme in Urban Agriculture: The Case of the City of Seattle, Washington." In Urban Agriculture, 335–49. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32076-7_18.
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AbstractLocal food is not a new topic in Seattle and surrounding region. Nestled in an agriculturally rich region, Seattle has a long and robust history of backyard and community gardening. A strong network of grassroots and community-based organizations work on food system issues. Many of these organizations have been actively addressing issues such as community gardening, food production, and food security since the early 1970s, long before the city government began to take an interest in the Seattle food system. The Seattle city government established the P-Patch Community Gardening Program in 1973, and the Seattle-King County department of public health has been actively engaged in nutrition issues for decades. However, it was not until the early 2000s, that the city government began engaging in systems change. The Seattle city government supports a number of urban agriculture and food systems related issues through public planning, policy and funding decisions. This chapter explores the various geographic, social, agricultural and governmental contexts at play and provides a critical examination of the city government’s response to urban agriculture. The chapter describes the city government’s impetus for addressing urban agriculture through public policy and an overview of the various opportunities and challenges it has faced along the way in addressing larger societal issues such as racial and social justice through urban agriculture. The author uses a critical lens to examine key policies such as the urban agriculture zoning regulations and the Local Food Action Plan, and key projects, such as the Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Wetlands Project, to better understand the impacts of urban agriculture policies on social, health and racial equity in Seattle.
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"A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICE ABOUT HEPATITIS IN A SUB-URBAN COMMUNITY IN SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA." In International Conference on Public Health and Humanitarian Action. International Federation of Medical Students' Associations - Jordan, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56950/jhhi8301.
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Background: The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a common infection that causes viral hepatitis B, which accounts for the world's most common cause of acute and chronic liver disorders. The WHO estimates 257 million people, or 3.5% of the world's population, had chronic HBV infection in 2015. July 28 every year, the world comes together under "World Hepatitis Day" (WHD) to raise awareness of the burden of viral hepatitis around the world. Objective: This study was conducted on WHD 2021 to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice toward hepatitis in an urban community in south-western Nigeria. Materials and Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted among residents in the Tejuosho market in Yaba, Lagos State, on WHD 2021. A self-administered structured questionnaire was filled by conveniently sampled participants in a strategic location in the market. Inferential statistics utilized the Pearson's Chi-Square test and multiple linear regression with P< 0.05 of statistical significance Results: One hundred and thirty-four (134) participated in the study. Most participants were between 18-29 years 45(33.6%). 72(53.7%) had good knowledge of hepatitis B. 47(53.4%) of the respondents had a low awareness of Hepatitis B. Majority 62(46.3%) of the respondents had a positive attitude toward Hepatitis B. There was no statistically significant relationship between Awareness and Knowledge of hepatitis and hepatitis B vaccine, p>0.05. Conclusion: Most participants had high knowledge about hepatitis but poor awareness of the disease. In addition, more than half of the participants had positive perceptions of hepatitis. Key Word: Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, hepatitis B vaccine, hepatitis B virus
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"Maternal health seeking behaviors and health care utilization in Pakistan." In International Conference on Public Health and Humanitarian Action. International Federation of Medical Students' Associations - Jordan, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56950/xzpo9700.
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Background: Direct estimations of maternal mortality were carried out in Pakistan for the first time. Maternal health and health issues, maternal mortality and the specific causes of death among women must be studied to improve the health care of women and better utilization of maternal health services for better public health. Objective: The main objectives of this study are to analyze maternal health, morbidity and mortality indicators. The causes of death and health care utilization will be highlighted, hence, useful recommendations can be made to reduce maternal deaths and to attain the Sustainable Development Goal 3.1. Method: Utilizing the data of Pakistan Maternal Mortality Survey 2019, crosstabs and frequency tables are constructed and multivariant analysis was conducted to find out the most effective factors contributing to the deaths. IBM SPSS and STATA were used for the analysis. Results and Conclusion: 40% population surveyed was under 15, age 65 or above. Average household members were 6-7. Drinking water facility was majorly improved in both urban and rural areas. Hospital services in rural areas were mostly (54%) in the parameter of 10+ kms and Basic Health Units were mainly found inside the community. Very few urban households were in the poorest quantile while very few rural households were in the wealthiest quantile. Women education distribution showed that a high percentage of women (52%) were uneducated and only a 12% had received higher education. Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) for the 3-year period before the survey was 186 deaths per 100,000 live births while pregnancy related mortality rate was 251 deaths per 100,000 live births, which was higher compared to the MMR. Maternal death causes were divided into direct and indirect causes, where major causes were reported to be obstetric Hemorrhage (41%), Hypertensive disorders (29%), Pregnancy with abortive outcome (10%), other obstetric pregnancy related infection (6%) and non-obstetric (4%). 37% women who died in the three years before the survey sought medical care at a public sector health facility while 26% at private sector and 5% at home. A majority (90%) of women who had pregnancy complications in the 3 years before the survey received ANC from a skilled provider. Keywords: Maternal health, antenatal care, maternal mortality rates, pregnancy related diseases
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Parnisari, Elena. "A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH DEVELOPED IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. Measuring children’s right to the city through urban design." In International Urban Planning Research Seminar. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Grup de Recerca en Urbanisme, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.12778.
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Today public spaces have become fragile environments highlighting socio-spatial inequalities. This PhD research intends to investigate whether it is possible to define more inclusive urban programs, considering children as determinants of inclusive urban design. It will do so by measuring children’s right to the city and systematising an urban toolkit as a child participation assessment tool to make knowledge reproducible and adaptable. PAR - participatory action research - is the selected methodology. It was developed through implementing urban diagnostic workshops in two social housing neighbourhoods in Porto, Portugal, and through analysing three successful international policy programs that share common values and guidelines in Southern Europe. The research's scientific merit is to understand how to promote equitable, inclusive and caring neighbourhoods through urban and participatory design that enables residents to co-create alternatives targeted to children in contexts of social exclusion. In doing so, making it inclusive to all. Keywords: participatory action research, children’s rights, public spaces, urban policies.
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Khafif, Mona El. "In Action: Urban Design Pedagogy for Co-Production." In 112th ACSA Annual Meeting. ACSA Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.112.106.
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How are we learning to collaborate and co-design with community stakeholders when traditional real-world engagement processes are not in sync with the requirements of semester schedules or could burden the communities we try to serve? What are the emerging techniques and pedagogical mechanisms that we can test and explore to allow for a learning environment that facilitates for urban design in action?Working with the Trust for Public Land (TPL) and a fictional Community School Yard project in East Cleveland, thepresented research is based on the long legacy of TPL’s program that pioneered a new model for environmentalleadership and community stewardship. Since 1996, the program transformed over 200 formerly paved schoolyards into community schoolyards in New York City alone. Today, TPL works across the nation and the model points at a future where community schoolyards could become standard practice, addressing the open space equity gab of our cities, and serving as excellent precedents for co-production and alliance building.This paper reflects on a seminar that implemented game mechanisms to introduce students to co-production strategies while designing a public space network with adjacent neighborhood communities.The paper introduces precedents and theories that investigate participatory design methods and shows how roleplays can help to stage real-world dynamics. The discussion includes design strategies that put the integration of game mechanisms at the project’s core and concludes with a reflection on a pedagogical framework exploring an emerging field around game scenarios, simulation games, and storytelling as an essential part of our disciplinary canon.
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"Prevalence of Hepatitis B virus and Haemoparasites among Apparently Healthy Individuals in College of Health Sciences Ladoke Akinola University of Technology Ogbomoso." In International Conference on Public Health and Humanitarian Action. International Federation of Medical Students' Associations - Jordan, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56950/fynm6569.
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, a viral disease, is of great concern to health community due to its adverse effects on the liver of infected individuals. Haemoparasites are blood-dwelling parasites whose effects span from mild to severe infections. This study focused on Plasmodium falciparum Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and microfilaria which causes malaria, sleeping sickness and microfilaramia in humans respectively. This is a retrospective study that was designed to determine the prevalence of hepatitis B infection and haemoparasistes among apparently healthy individuals in the College of Health Sciences, Ladoke Akintola University of technology, Ogbomoso. Paucity of data regarding prevalence of HBV and haemoparasites among apparently healthy individuals in Ogbomoso necessitated this study. A total number of one hundred and fifty five (155) blood samples were collected within 3months for this study. Out of the one hundred and fifty five (155) blood samples collected, ten (10) tested positive to HBsAg giving a prevalence rate of 6.5%. The samples were also examined for haemoparasites on thin and thick blood smears stained with Giemsa dye using oil immersion (100X) objective of the light microscope. Only one type of haemoparasite was detected: malaria parasite with a prevalence of 87.1%. Prevalence rate for HBV and malaria parasite with respect to age group was found to be higher in age group of 25-30 and in term of sex, males have higher prevalence rate than females. The prevalence of 7.4% for co-infection of HBV and malaria parasite within the study population confirmed the high endemicity of both infections in the studied area being an urban area. It could be recommended that the Nigerian government HBV vaccination program should be extended to the adult population and not just limited to the national childhood immunization program. This is important because none of the subjects that participated in the study were vaccinated.
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Milito, Alessandra. "The regeneration of Mouraria. An innovative systemic, strategic and participatory approach to the co-working of urban space." In International Urban Planning Research Seminar. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Grup de Recerca en Urbanisme, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.12711.
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Between 2011 and 2014, a process of urban and social regeneration took place in the historic neighborhood of Mouraria in Lisbon. This initiative embraced an interdisciplinary, systemic, participatory, and experimental approach. The regenerative process was guided by strategic choices, such as the centrality of public space, the integration of physical and social dimensions, and the involvement of local communities. Through a widespread, bottom-up, and place-based action, developed upon a few clear and simple strategic lines, extensive results were achieved. This approach overturned the intervention paradigm on existing structures, combining municipal and local interests and including residents in the co-elaboration of the urban and social space. This article aims to provide an overview by examining population engagement strategies, the key actors through which various forms of participation were activated, the new roles adopted by planning and architecture, and the possibilities for preserving sociocultural heritage in urban regeneration. Keywords: Urban regeneration, innovative approach, public space, participation.
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Garg, Samir, Shikha Gupta, and K. Rizu. "HEPATITIS E OUTBREAKS IN URBAN AREAS: CHALLENGES FOR INTERSECTORAL ACTION." In EPHP 2016, Bangalore, 8–9 July 2016, Third national conference on bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy Equitable India: All for Health and Wellbeing. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-ephpabstracts.56.
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Cognigni, Marta. "City, unexpressed spaces, sport. Resilience in the design of new public spaces." In 3rd Valencia International Biennial of Research in Architecture, VIBRArch. València: Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/vibrarch2022.2022.15203.
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The city evolves and overwrites itself and this overwriting creates an overlap of the various plots that bring out unplanned parts of it. The contemporary city is therefore the result of design and incidental actions that have radically transformed it, leaving around it a “kind of space” of difficult interpretation because of the peculiarity that characterizes them. They are ambiguous, undetermined spaces, often resulting from the informal action of man or the result of stratifications within the urban dimension. This type of space is called “interstitial” because it is located between things. They can be elements in urban spaces, entire buildings, or only portions within their sphere. The aim of the present text is on the one hand to construct a definition of what an interstitial space is inside the contemporary city. On the other hand, thanks to the help of case studies, we can understand the most suitable functions for the reactivation and enhancement of these areas in the city. The need to reactivate existing city spaces has increased following the climate crisis and pandemic. It’s appropriate to recognize the empty spaces of the city as a “new opportunities” ready to host new functions. Therefore, flexible strategies of action are necessary, which find in the void space of primary importance to realize adaptive devices capable of increasing “urban resilience” and that act as relief valves during extraordinary events. The picture that emerges from studies and research related to the European and Italian panorama of sports infrastructure allows us to identify interesting and innovative trends that show, also in this sector, an increasing attention to issues of urban resilience, architectural and social. Based on this premise, the contribution aims to analyze the recent evolution of public space design modalities in sports practices as a field where resilience policies are applied.
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Buckley-Marudas, Molly. "Developing Youth Participatory Action Research Pedagogies for Urban, Public Schools: Negotiating the Teacher-Facilitator Role." In 2019 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1446779.
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Isni, Khoiriyah, and Kartika Anggraeni Adira Rahmatun. "Community Participation to Promote Disaster Risk Reduction in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A Qualitative Study." In 2nd International Conference on Public Health and Well-being. iConferences (Pvt) Ltd, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32789/publichealth.2021.1004.
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Ledoksari is one of the areas where natural disasters often occur, primarily floods every year. Therefore, the government designated the area as a disaster-resilient village to Promote Disaster Risk Reduction. Active community participation is needed for the success of the program. An evaluation program is required to explain this. The purpose of this study is to explore community participation in developing a Disaster-resilient Urban Village. This study is a qualitative method with in-depth interviews as data collection. Fifteen people were selected as research subjects by the purposive sampling technique. The study results show that the steps of activities in Ledoksari as a Disaster-resilient Urban Village are preparation, profiling, and disaster risk analysis. Then, the movement continued with mapping, community action plan, simulation, and review. Participation in planning, implementing, evaluating, and utilizing the results is formed community participation. Meanwhile, the lack of public awareness to be actively involved in each activity was claimed as a barrier. The community has participated well and actively in the implementation and utilization of the results. But, the study shows the whole community has not been completely involving in the planning and the evaluation process.
Reports on the topic "Urban public action"
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Rao, Menaka, Shantanu Menon, Kushagra Merchant, and Aruna Pandey. Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA): An ethos of care. Indian School Of Development Management, January 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.58178/2301.1017.
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This case study engages with the journey of SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action), a public health non-profit organization founded in Mumbai in 1999. India has the distinction of being witness to a long history of efforts by public-spirited healthcare professionals. Alongside treatment, their work in public health has consistently involved giving due emphasis to prevention, reducing the excessive reliance on institutional-led public health delivery, moving towards community-based approaches and giving considerable attention to maternal and child health, the bedrock of any sound public health system. The efforts of SNEHA (which means “love” or “affection”) in developing, expanding and adapting this approach amongst some of the world’s largest and dense poor and low-income urban settlements in India constitutes an important part of this history. Started with little funding, in a little over two decades, it now oversees over Rs. 29 crores of funds; and its programs, which started as small pilot projects to gather evidence, have evolved into large interventions drawing in many individuals and institutions along the way. Public health, unlike many other spaces of developmental interventions, demands balancing affordability, quality care and credibility with little margin for error. The case engages with the ways in which intentional evolutions to its practice have allowed SNEHA to grow, in full public glare, in a rapidly urbanizing agglomeration. The case also offers an opportunity for learners to reflect on how SNEHA’s organizational culture of appreciative inquiry and its adoption of technology have enabled it to hold together a team of 500 staff and over 6,000 volunteers; and how community-based models can overcome the shortage of full-time medical professionals in a resource-constrained to deliver consistently high standards of care.
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Guerra, Flávia, Alex Caldera-Ortega, Daniel Tagle Zamora, Gorka Zubicaray, Acoyani Adame, Michael Roll, and Lucas Turmena. TUC City Profile: León, Mexico. United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53324/gjss3214.
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Economic dynamism has been maintained at the expense of rising socio-environmental issues in León, namely the deterioration of air and water quality, the overexploitation of groundwater sources, soil erosion and contamination, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, urban sprawl and inequality. These issues contribute to, and are worsened by, climate change. Climate governance in León began to materialize in the early 2010s, largely emulating the state’s legal and institutional framework. It has since progressed incrementally with each municipal administration. Nevertheless, mainstreaming of the climate agenda is hampered by several factors, including lack of effective coordination across government bodies and insufficient funding. Climate change mitigation projects implemented in León have mostly been aimed at addressing sectoral urban problems, only contributing to reducing emissions implicitly and marginally. Changing this trend requires all urban actors to explicitly integrate climate goals in their agendas and implement them collaboratively. León’s civil society has increasingly denounced social and environmental injustices associated with both public and private projects. It demands greater participation in urban decisions around topics such as air quality and transport, water, green public spaces and urban reforestation, and gender – all of which could be entry points for transformative climate action.
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Gupte, Jaideep, Louise Clark, Debjani Ghosh, Sarath Babu, Priyanka Mehra, Asif Raza, Vaibhav Sharma, et al. Embedding Community Voice into Smart City Spatial Planning. Institute of Development Studies, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2022.005.
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Public participation in spatial planning is a vital means to successful policymaking and can be enhanced by combining geospatial methods with participatory learning and action. Based on a pilot study in Bhopal, India involving urban authorities, civil society organisations and experts in an informal settlement during Covid-19 lockdowns, we find that the obstacles to sustaining public participation are not technological, but arise from a lack of awareness of the added value of ‘second order solutions’. We outline key approaches that emphasise short-term, feasible, and low-cost ways to embed community voice into participatory spatial planning.
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Turmena, Lucas, Flávia Maia, Flávia Guerra, and Michael Roll. TUC City Profile: Teresina, Brazil. United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53324/eycc5652.
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Climate injustice is obvious in Teresina. Although the city makes a small contribution to national and global emissions, it is situated in a global warming hotspot. Teresina is already affected by extreme heat, and models anticipate that it will become even hotter and drier in the coming years. The city's high vulnerability to climate change particularly affects Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) groups living in low-income neighbourhoods. Social injustice and racism are tied together in the urban development process of Teresina. Flood-prone areas often overlap with vulnerable neighbourhoods at the fringes of the city, resulting in precarious living conditions. Climate action at the city level must simultaneously favour racial and climate justice to promote transformative changes towards sustainability. Teresina will likely have to absorb climate-induced migration from its surroundings, which may increase the challenges of already overloaded basic services and infrastructure. Urban planning in Teresina must accommodate future projections by combining climate mitigation with adaptation to provide low-carbon and resilient development. Urban climate governance is still emerging in Teresina, which makes this a key moment for transformative action towards sustainability. Entry points for transformation in the city include: promoting vertical and horizontal coordination to implement the climate agenda; increasing climate-related technical knowledge within the municipal government and awareness at the community level; fostering collaboration to generate and disseminate municipal climate data and amplify bottom-up climate initiatives; creating new climate narratives; strengthening citizen participation while recognizing and including vulnerable groups; declaring a climate emergency; and leveraging additional public and private funds for climate action.
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Guerra, Flávia, Gabriela Merlinsky, Jorgelina Hardoy, Daniel Kozak, Michael Roll, Tobías Melina, and Pablo Pereira. TUC City Profile: Buenos Aires, Argentina. United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53324/sbph3038.
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While it is the jurisdiction with the highest per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in Argentina, there are historically marked differences in socioeconomic levels and socio-environmental conditions between the north and the south of the city of Buenos Aires. The effects of climate change are intertwined with those of economic globalization, a process of “double exposure” that disproportionately affects particular social groups and areas in the city. Slums and informal settlements in Buenos Aires are growing in size. Most face significant resource and infrastructure deficits, as well as high flood risk, and are thus highly vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate. Tackling climate change in Buenos Aires requires integrated adaptation and mitigation approaches that put the most vulnerable at the centre. The ongoing socio-urban integration processes in informal settlements represent opportunities to rethink and territorialize climate action from an integrated habitat perspective. Since the early 2000s, Buenos Aires has built a robust track record of climate policy, including a climate change law and three Climate Action Plans (PACs). The city has also long been a hotbed for social movements, with a recent resurgence of “the right to the city,” defined as the right of urban dwellers to build, decide and create the city. This provides fertile ground for climate justice narratives and transformative climate action to take root. More than half of the city’s GHG emissions come from the consumption of grid electricity and fuels in buildings, mostly natural gas. Multilevel and intersectoral articulation of public policies are key to advance the climate agenda at the city level, particularly in light of limited urban authority over the electricity sector. Sustainability transformations in Buenos Aires could also be enabled by strengthening the existing capacity development efforts of particular local actors to raise climate awareness; connecting and amplifying emerging community-led initiatives that showcase transformative climate action; and clarifying financial flows as a way to stimulate climate financing.
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Alarcón, Lía, Patricia Alata, Mariana Alegre, Tamara Egger, Rosario Fassina, Analía Hanono, Carolina Huffmann, Lucía Nogales, and Carolina Piedrafita. Citizen-Led Urbanism in Latin America: Superbook of civic actions for transforming cities. Inter-American Development Bank, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004582.
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This is a publication about citizen-led urbanism processes in Latin America. It follows the recent life of a movement originating from, and driven by and for citizens, who out of a compelling love for their cities, have brought together actors from all fields to co-create new, more inclusive and equitable public space models. By using tools such as innovation, creativity and co-responsible solidarity, citizen-led urbanism has been able to complement the traditional approaches to urban planning and city governance. This publication also invites us to move from the theory and concepts that provide the rationale for citizen-led urbanism to the actual practical experiences which are helping to shape it and consolidate it as a regional movement. It thus takes us on a journey through successful projects developed in different places and contexts of Latin America and looks at the experience of the first urban innovation labs, as a means to consider the paths that may lead to new horizons of an inclusive future, in view of the challenges, both known and yet to be known, of the first half of the 21st century. In less than one decade, with their impressive diversity and vigorous urban activity, members of the citizen-led urbanism movement have brought about changes in the streets, neighborhoods and cities where they live: changes in the way of thinking of authorities and fellow citizens; changes in public policies, which have an impact not only on the urban landscape, but also on how we relate to each other through our relationship with what we call “the urban” and with ecosystems, with our individual needs and with the urgency of organizing ourselves collectively to identify solutions for the common good. This is why this book became a superbook, i.e., an extensive compilation about a fabulous collective adventure, undertaken by thousands of people whose common denominator is creativity and their will to think and do things differently. We hope it may serve as an inspiration to its readers so that they, too, may take a leading role in this story.
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Bhatt, Mihir R., Shilpi Srivastava, Megan Schmidt-Sane, and Lyla Mehta. Key Considerations: India's Deadly Second COVID-19 Wave: Addressing Impacts and Building Preparedness Against Future Waves. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2021.031.
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Since February 2021, countless lives have been lost in India, which has compounded the social and economic devastation caused by the second wave of COVID-19. The sharp surge in cases across the country overwhelmed the health infrastructure, with people left scrambling for hospital beds, critical drugs, and oxygen. As of May 2021, infections began to come down in urban areas. However, the effects of the second wave continued to be felt in rural areas. This is the worst humanitarian and public health crisis the country has witnessed since independence; while the continued spread of COVID-19 variants will have regional and global implications. With a slow vaccine rollout and overwhelmed health infrastructure, there is a critical need to examine India's response and recommend measures to further arrest the current spread of infection and to prevent and prepare against future waves. This brief is a rapid social science review and analysis of the second wave of COVID-19 in India. It draws on emerging reports, literature, and regional social science expertise to examine reasons for the second wave, explain its impact, and highlight the systemic issues that hindered the response. This brief puts forth vital considerations for local and national government, civil society, and humanitarian actors at global and national levels, with implications for future waves of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries. This review is part of the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) series on the COVID-19 response in India. It was developed for SSHAP by Mihir R. Bhatt (AIDMI), Shilpi Srivastava (IDS), Megan Schmidt-Sane (IDS), and Lyla Mehta (IDS) with input and reviews from Deepak Sanan (Former Civil Servant; Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre for Policy Research), Subir Sinha (SOAS), Murad Banaji (Middlesex University London), Delhi Rose Angom (Oxfam India), Olivia Tulloch (Anthrologica) and Santiago Ripoll (IDS). It is the responsibility of SSHAP.
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Muelaner, Jody. Unsettled Issues Regarding First- and Last-mile Transport. SAE International, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/epr2021024.
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Sustainable first/last/only-mile (FLO-mile) transport is the key to sustainable travel. It could directly replace private car use for short urban journeys, which account for 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. More importantly, it could enable public transport to be used for longer journeys, which account for 6% of emissions. Active travel, such as walking and cycling, has the lowest emissions and provides huge economic benefits that pay for the required infrastructure many times over. Unsettled Issues Regarding First- and Last-Mile Transport discusses the mass switch to more sustainable modes of transport and how to increase their perceived value to users. It also covers the prioritization of publicly owned cycles over rideshare options due to the latter’s higher lifecycle emissions, including manufacture, redistribution, and service operations and station construction.
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Gupte, Jaideep, Sarath MG Babu, Debjani Ghosh, Eric Kasper, and Priyanka Mehra. Smart Cities and COVID-19: Implications for Data Ecosystems from Lessons Learned in India. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2021.034.
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This brief distils best data practice recommendations through consideration of key issues involved in the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response in resource constrained urban contexts. We draw lessons from how data enabled technologies were used in urban COVID-19 response, as well as how standard implementation procedures were affected by the pandemic. Disease control is a long-standing consideration in building smart city architecture, while humanitarian actions are increasingly digitised. However, there are competing city visions being employed in COVID-19 response. This is symptomatic of a broader range of tech-based responses in other humanitarian contexts. These visions range from aspirations for technology driven, centralised and surveillance oriented urban regimes, to ‘frugal innovations’ by firms, consumers and city governments. Data ecosystems are not immune from gendered- and socio-political discrimination, and technology-based interventions can worsen existing inequalities, particularly in emergencies. Technology driven public health (PH) interventions thus raise concerns about 1) what types of technologies are appropriate, 2) whether they produce inclusive outcomes for economically and socially disadvantaged urban residents and 3) the balance between surveillance and control on one hand, and privacy and citizen autonomy on the other.
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Gupte, Jaideep, Sarath MG Babu, Debjani Ghosh, Eric Kasper, Priyanka Mehra, and Asif Raza. Smart Cities and COVID-19: Implications for Data Ecosystems from Lessons Learned in India. Institute of Development Studies, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2022.004.
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This brief distils best data practice recommendations through consideration of key issues involved in the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response in resource constrained urban contexts. We draw lessons from how data enabled technologies were used in urban COVID-19 response, as well as how standard implementation procedures were affected by the pandemic. Disease control is a long-standing consideration in building smart city architecture, while humanitarian actions are increasingly digitised. However, there are competing city visions being employed in COVID-19 response. This is symptomatic of a broader range of tech-based responses in other humanitarian contexts. These visions range from aspirations for technology driven, centralised and surveillance oriented urban regimes, to ‘frugal innovations’ by firms, consumers and city governments. Data ecosystems are not immune from gendered- and socio-political discrimination, and technology-based interventions can worsen existing inequalities, particularly in emergencies. Technology driven public health (PH) interventions thus raise concerns about 1) what types of technologies are appropriate, 2) whether they produce inclusive outcomes for economically and socially disadvantaged urban residents and 3) the balance between surveillance and control on one hand, and privacy and citizen autonomy on the other.