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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Southern Urbanism"”.
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Occupations as housing models: The everyday and political role of collective labour in sustaining an occupation over time
… an attentive, intimate and embodied reading of southern urban planning and repair practices; conceptually, in tying together disparate bodies of literature on southern urbanism, infrastructures, repair and affect; and methodologically, in insisting on the use of the body to generate data. As …
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Electricity Supply in Khartoum: the planned, the delivered, the experienced
As the first step in rethinking infrastructure configurations and their alternatives, this thesis aims at looking into the existing policy framework that governs electricity supply in Khartoum, its implementation and how it's experienced by Khartoum's residents. By zooming into one locality in …
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Improving access to maternal health care beyond health care policy: pregnant women's experience of maternal public health care services in Cape Town, South Africa
Unequal access to maternal health care continues to be a concern in South Africa despite the efforts of government and health practitioners to make the system more inclusive and accessible to all women, especially for women who have been previously disadvantaged prior to and during Apartheid. …
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Cosmo City Greens: contested aspirations of ecologically sustainable lifestyles in mixed-income housing
… gained momentum in urban planning, especially in southern cities. These policies potentially not only bridge racial and economic disparities but they also confront issues of fragmented environmentalism through housing developments. South Africa's first mixed-income housing development, Cosmo City …
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“We are going to turn this place into a place!” Affective politics and everyday life in a pavement occupation in Cape Town
… case suggests some, emerging ways in which this Southern City is transforming through informal inhabitation of interstitial spaces. It does so at a time when the appearance of tents and makeshift shelters under bridges, along unfinished highways and pavements are initially associated, initially …
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Heritage movements in the postcolonial city: Contestations between middle-class activisms and urbanisation processes in Kolkata
… heritage notions and their intertwining within southern urban practices. It explores postcolonial heritage through the concept of urban assemblage to go beyond essentialist and dichotomous heritage meanings between elite v/s popular, official v/s unofficial, tangible v/s intangible and state v/s …
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The Informalization of Formal Housing Projects in the Global South: Policy Failure or Counterhegemonic City-making?
… the intersection between State building theory, Southern Urbanism, and Design Politics, I suggest that it is instead a series of interconnected counterhegemonic city-making efforts that attempt to undo the norms and forms imposed by the national State to guarantee the political and social …
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Encountering city governance: an analysis of street trading in Gaborone, Botswana
There is a need to review and recast how space is being planned and how regulations are responding to the realities of the informal economy. Street trading provides a critical platform to explore the dynamics and complexity of planning and management of informal activities in public spaces. This …
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The Accommodation City : Private Low-income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai
… and the seemingly dysfunctional landscapes of Southern megacities. First, I address who lives in the ‘Accommodation City’ by reproducing the intricate and ambiguous socio-spatial patterns of the workers living and inhabiting these spaces to discern the categories of temporary residents’, and …
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The Grey Matters: Investigating the Wingfield Strip as an Urban Borderspace
… literature on critical border studies and Southern urbanism in conversation creates an opportunity to grapple with the complexities of urban belonging in interaction with the national border regime. This research endeavour has been theorised through the site of the Wingfield Strip, a highly …
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Your Mess, My Life: The Junction between Land Use Planning and Street Vending in the Accra Mall Enclave
… planning in the global South and feeding into Southern urban theory, the research focuses explicitly on the Accra Mall Enclave (AME) as a microcosm of African cities. It explores how various players – planners/vendors/politicians – interact and navigate the dynamics of daily experiences. The …
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Understanding the Contemporary Character of Braamfontein Johannesburg: Towards a renewed understanding of urban renewal in cities in the South
… poverty, rent-seeking behaviour, and neoliberal urbanism. These arguments tend to centre the interests and actions of certain actors, prioritize certain forces (such as economic ones), and thus tend to predict a particular set of outcomes. In adopting a southern urbanist epistemology, and …
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Racial and Relational Urbanisms: The Spatial Politics of Afro-Colombian Emplacement in Bogotá
… city. While broadening studies on postcolonial urbanism through disciplinary intersections, this research proposes a decolonial research agenda for urban studies, urging a special attentiveness to its scarcity in Colombia. Finally, it complements global and Southern urban literature with …