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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Just city"”.
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Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city.
… in One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City (OneNYC). The resilience metaphor's form and function is inherently conservative, constraining the vision of an ecologically just NYC within broader discourses of growth-dependent urban planning, the reversal of white flight, and …
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Enabling 'just' forms of regeneration in Woodstock, Cape Town
… individuals' ability to remain in central inner-city neighbourhoods. The inner-city neighbourhood of Woodstock in Cape Town appears to reflect this problem through private sector development that results in the increase of property prices to the detriment of low-income residents. Research …
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Whose city? : redevelopment and governance in Boston
… in a way that enhances the creation of a more just city.
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The unfulfilled promise of neoliberal housing policy : how the dynamics of the rental housing market influence the spatial concentration of voucher holders in New York City
… Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program in New York City. Scholars have long been interested in understanding the reproduction of HCV holders into higher poverty, racially segregated neighborhoods in cities across the U.S. Most of the research to date has focused on the ways demand-side factors …
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The political ecology of community-based adaptation to flood risk in informal settlements: the case of a local community organisation
… ISN uses insurgent planning to envision a more just city. They navigate sanctioned and un-sanctioned spaces of citizenship to drive development from the bottom-up. The community designed and spearheaded reblocking process (rearranging shacks in a settlement to allow for flood drainage and …
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The Pursuit of Urban Justice: Managing processes of decline and regeneration in Salt River, Cape Town
… the area. These changes are interpreted by the City of Cape Town (CoCT) as an indication that Salt River is in decline and, consequently, in need of regeneration. In response to this perception, the CoCT has developed a number of spatial frameworks and plans to guide regeneration in the area. …
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The pursuit of urban justice through transit-orientated development: The potential of the Lansdowne-Wetton Corridor
… forms, established by modernist, and apartheid city models. This has resulted in low density sprawl, fragmented and segregated structures, all contributing to unsustainable and unjust city practices. The City of Cape Town is no exception. Cape Town is a tale of two cities, where the urban and …
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Community participation in planning practice : analysis of Sydney Metropolitan Strategy 2005
… is considered fundamental to promote social justice, sustainability and democracy in contemporary urban planning practice. Despite many decades of such practice, the needs and concerns of local communities remain largely unaddressed. Consequently, an important question which emerges is how it …
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The right to a 'world class city'?: street trading, public space and urban governance in the Cape Town city centre
… nature of street trading in the Cape Town city centre. The Grand Parade, South Africa's oldest public space, sits adjacent to the city's major public transport hub, and plays a vital role in the daily lives of many city residents. Therefore, public space contestations, and the informal …
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Bridging the divide: Integrating the metro South East to the rest of the city through design
… still reflects the apartheid and modernist city planning regime. The result of this can be seen in the fragmented urban and social fabric of the city today. The apartheid planning regime had created a city of boundaries which was divisive and psychotic (Mbembe, 2008). The main objective of …