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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Urban Political Ecology"”.
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From subprime loans to unwanted greenspace: An urban political ecology of economic crisis in Cleveland, Ohio
This dissertation examines tension between the ecology and political economy of land vacancy in former industrial hubs of the US Rust Belt. Following the 2007-2009 economic crisis, Rust Belt cities undertook sweeping demolition campaigns and have sought to repurpose the resulting vacant land for …
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The architecture of the extended mind: towards a critical urban ecology
… environmental question have so many personal, political and social dimensions, and are so radically trans-disciplinary, that architectural discourse and its metropolitan mediations is well positioned to reflect upon, articulate and stage as a new modern project, this multi-disciplinary and …
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Super Fun Superfund: Polluted Protection Along the Gowanus Canal
… of the canal relate to the changing purpose of urban waterways. Gowanus has mimicked the development of New York City since the 1600's through several phases: city settlement and development, abandonment, and redevelopment. The redevelopment phase in Gowanus couples environmental clean up with …
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The Critique of Everyday Drought: A Feminist Decolonial Analysis of Hydro-Climate Policies in Cape Town, South Africa
… analysis of the power dynamics shaping urban hydro-climate policies in the context of a growing push by the World Bank and other powerful actors to create new opportunities for water-related private investments in the global South. Drawing from the emblematic case of Cape Town, South …
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Environmental (in)activism: pollution, people, and politics in two Indianapolis neighborhoods
… activism (or lack thereof) in response to urban environmental injustices in two communities to understand differences in response between the communities. The goal is to better understand how and why residents take action to secure improvements in environmental quality and the forces that …
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The political ecology of community-based adaptation to flood risk in informal settlements: the case of a local community organisation
As urbanisation rates increase in parallel with growing climate change concerns, African cities are increasingly required to explore and support adaptation planning that reduces climate risks for the most vulnerable. Informal settlements are particularly vulnerable to climate change due to their …
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Pollinator People: an ethnography of bees, bee advocates and possibilities for multispecies commoning in Toronto and London, ON
… which has contributed to an increase in urban, hobbyist beekeeping and pollinator gardening. This dissertation employs a multispecies ethnography in two cities in Ontario, London and Toronto, to explore how the knowledges and experiences of urban bee advocates – who I call ‘pollinator …
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From drought to desalination: The case of Cape Town
… and equitable water future. Drawing on urban political ecology, this dissertation explores the process in which the instalment of three temporary desalination plants and planning for permanent desalination in Cape Town emerged. This, in order to carefully consider its consequences for …
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The Greenway Trail in Community Development: An examination of value, representation, and distribution of benefits among stakeholders
… they are often viewed as innately sustainable. Urban Political Ecology (UPE), Actor Network Theory (ANT), and Campbell's Sustainable Development are used together as lenses to better understand the greenway development process and its outcomes. This research is a case study of the Roanoke River …
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Wastelands of difference? Urban nature and more-than-human difference in Berlin and Gothenburg
… more-than-human entanglements of contemporary urban environments in order to develop a rearticulation of urban landscapes as spaces decidedly beyond the exclusively human. Taking its cue from the question “How do we live with urban difference today?,” such spaces, the thesis argues, emerge …
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'TRACK’ING THE BORDER: MICRO-GEOGRAPHIES OF INFRASTRUCTURAL BORDERS IN GUWAHATI INDIA
This thesis investigates micro-urban spaces within cities where geopolitical processes at different scales intersect, producing layers of bordering, that become legible through people-infrastructure interactions. I specifically explore the reproduction India’s partition and the immigration debate …
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Struggle and solidarity in transforming urban futures: The fisher fight for Ennore wetlands in Tamil Nadu, India
… how subaltern environmentalisms disrupt both the urban-industrial logics of development and the dominant sustainability paradigms that seek to manage their externalities, and how such disruptions enact material, epistemic, and ontological transformations. The thesis traces the struggle’s evolution …
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Community Engagement in Urban Forestry: Exploring Barriers and Strategies for Inclusion of Recent Racialised Immigrants in Toronto’s Urban Forest
The correlation of inequitable urban forest distribution with race and income is well-documented. Yet, despite the recognition of the underrepresentation of racialised communities, Canada’s urban forestry sector is slow to address access disparities to information and engagement opportunities, …