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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"conflicting rationalities"”.
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Implementing sanitation for informal settlements: conflicting rationalities in South Africa
… policy and programmes in Cape Town according to conflicting rationalities that accommodated the'lived' and 'practical' realities of servicing informal settlements. In light of these circumstances, this thesis argues that there is a disproportionate focus on turning national policy into practise - …
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Conflicting rationalities and the governance of homelessness in Ward 64, Cape Town
… approach was combined with Watson's theory of Conflicting Rationalities and used to examine the sociological experiences of street-based people. What resulted was a framework which allowed the “logics and imperatives” of homelessness to be understood through a rationality of survival. …
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Ways of seeing: Conflicting rationalities in contested urban space - the N2 Gateway in the context of Langa
… of the N2 Gateway exposes the underlying rationalities shaping relations amongst and between organs of state and key non-state development actors. Although the BNG policy made provision for in situ upgrading of informal settlements, in practice the state declared war on shacks and through …
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A tenuous middle ground : conflicting rationalities and the lived negotiation of low income housing in Cape Town
… production and interaction of divergent housing rationalities through qualitative research in a low income housing development called Stock Road and in the offices of the para-statal company that developed and administered the area, the Cape Town Community Housing Company (CTCHC). Investigations …
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Understanding conflicting rationalities in city planning: a case study of co-produced infrastructure in informal settlements in Kampala
… under co-production are shaped by power and rationalities that occur at the interface between state and society. This study draws on key proponents of the case study method. Primary data and information were collected, using semi-structured interviews. Document analysis and observations were …
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Analysis of the land administration and housing management systems in view of adequate self-built incremental housing development in Lesotho
… overarching theoretical and analytic lenses of conflicting rationalities and spatial planning. Ethnographic case study research methodology (ECSRM) is adopted, using a mixed-methods approach. Multiple conflicting rationalities about SBIH development are identified. These are between the central …
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Integrating land administration systems in peri-urban customary areas in Ghana
… behind them is different, and possibly conflicting (Watson, 2003). The conflicting rationalities between the dual systems have created binaries in land administration discourse. Some scholars have promoted statutory land administration systems over customary systems (Hardin, 1968). Many …
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The night - time economy in Sydney, Australia: policies and actors pre, during and post the Covid - 19 pandemic
… NTE in Sydney was highly contested, I draw upon conflicting rationalities to analyse the contestations around the NTE and its policies. The blame games framework was relevant to highlight the actor’s dynamic of interaction. Finally, I applied antifragility as a framework to analyse the impact of …
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Deconstructing the boundary between environmental sustainability and social justice: decision-making and obscured rationalities in government-led housing in Johannesburg
… for identifying trade-offs and understanding how conflicting rationalities impact decision-making within cities. Given that urbanisation, poverty, and climate change impacts are concentrated in cities in the global South, the challenge of building socially just and environmentally sustainable …
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An Exploration for a Holistic Approach to Upgrading Informal Settlements as an Alternative to Settlement Elimination: A case study on Okapale informal settlement, Windhoek
… declaration. The theoretical concepts 'conflicting rationalities' (Watson, 2003) and 'urban fantasies' (Watson, 2014) reinforced some findings, such as conflicting positionality on the 'upgrading' concept [and what it constitutes]; and the imposition of formal planning standards on the …
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A unified spatial framework for the evaluation and enhancement of economic potential and efficiency in Cape Town
… in the analysis section. It further finds conflicting rationalities in the approach to long term spatial planning that will not likely promote a more economically efficient urban structure. Based on these critiques the dissertation of recommendations on how urban planning can better promote …
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Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana
… predominant situation articulated by a clash of rationalities between policies and everyday socio-economic practices of access to land and housing by low income households in Gaborone. The investigation of these tensions between policies promoting access to land and housing and the advocacy of …
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Understanding the context of informality: urban planning under different land tenure systems in Mzuzu city, Malawi
… (Roy, 2009), gray spaces (Yiftachel, 2009), conflicting rationalities (Watson 2003), quiet encroachment (Bayat, 2010), insurgency (Holston, 2008) and hidden transcripts (Scott,1990) to frame the analysis of housing informality in Mzuzu City. The case study method (Yin 2014) was used to …