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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"right to the city"”.
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The right to the city and environmental justice in urban South Africa
… and failing service delivery. Urban areas are further confronted with challenges such as increasing numbers of people, pressure on built environment infrastructure, pollution, and natural resources such as water that are under strain. These challenges affect how well cities and other urban areas …
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Towards an Architecture of Civil Disobedience to Reclaim Informal Settlements Right to the City
Informal settlements sit at the transition between numerous dimensions of globalisation and political decisions. Although poverty plays a big role in the manifestations of informal settlements, it is more complex due to the human tendency to find resolution with living in the city. The problem when …
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Contesting Erasure: The Museu Da Maré and the Right to the City in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
<p>Rapid growth in cities of the Global South has precipitated urban inequalities, particularly the urban and social exclusion of low-income city residents. Right to the city scholars have investigated claims to urban space but have not fully considered the role of museums and the politics of …
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Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico
In 2010, then-Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of Mexico's Distrito Federal (DF) signed the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City. Echoing a global movement by activists, academics, citizens, and government officials, a consortium of municipal activist organizations had written the charter over a …
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Urbanism with Chinese Characteristics and the Right to the City : The Regeneration of Urban-Villages in Guangzhou, China
The aim of the thesis is to describe and evaluate the transformation of urban form in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), China, with a particular focus on the relations between social processes and spatial forms in the context of the regeneration of urban-villages in Guangzhou. Referring to in-depth …
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The right to the city in disputed sites : urban redevelopment and the street economy space nexus in Maputo, Mozambique
The study established the nexus between market-led urban redevelopment and involuntary displacement of street economy workers from public spaces. Taking Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, as a case-study, it investigated how street economy workers are circumventing displacement from public …
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The right to the City (Centre): a spatial development framework for affordable inner-city housing in Cape Town's Foreshore
There is a spatial dislocation between jobs and people in Cape Town, which is largely caused by financial exclusion through urban land markets. The majority of low-income households - who also constitute the majority of the city's population - live on the urban periphery, where property is …
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THE RIGHT TO NAVIGATE RISK IN MEXICO CITY: Possibilities for creating safer spaces for women experiencing fear of sexual harassment in their daily use of the city
This thesis explores the effects of fear of harassment on women’s mobility choices in Mexico City by analyzing it through a Right to the City framework. Women’s fear of harassment constitutes a constant state of alert to the smaller and more subtle forms which exist in a spatial continuity as a …
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Politics of Space in Ankara: The Spatial Triad as Mobilization and Demobilization
Decades after the post-structuralist, Marxist, and postmodernist critiques of power, architects continue to play a role in assimilating and, sometimes, marginalizing the population through a mode of spatial production that contributes to climate change, structural racism, income inequality, social …
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Architecture for performance - exploring the relationship between architecture, dance and the city
The focus of this investigation is the relationship between architecture and dance. The main concern is the challenge of translating dance to enhance architectural design, questioning how dance can inspire and unlock a potential in architecture through scale and movement of the body at various …
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Acessibilidade dos estudantes com deficiência na Universidade Federal da Paraíba
This paper aims to address issues of accessibility to students at the Federal University of Paraíba, in which through the Inclusion and Accessibility Committee observed monitoring said University gives students that have some type of disability. Data will be explained which were published by the …
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O incentivo ao transporte cicloviário como política de desenvolvimento sustentável e de direito à cidade
This monograph addresses the issue of importance to urban centers can bring alternatives to encourage nonmotorized transport through cycling systems, enhancing local sustainable development, and to propose the city and citizens, conditions of living the city out of what is imposed by trade, media …
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Housing Provision through Real Estate Development: Adopting Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing Delivery in Brazil
… particular, those associated with state efforts to attract the private sector to participate in the design, finance, development and long-term management of infrastructure and housing provision systems. While the study's focus is on adoption of the public-private partnership (PPP) mechanism in …
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Creando barrios. Vecindarios, cine y poesia. La concepcion del espacio urbano en Espana. 1970-1985.
… neighborhoods and in poetry and cinema during the Transition. I explore how urban spaces are not so much physical entities but lived spaces, with the potentials of reconceptualizing human practices in today's artistic creations. My point of departure studies how different grassroots …
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Land use planning innovations in the midst of a 'Migration Crisis' : developing a spatial definition of refugee integration
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' 2016 Global Trends Report, global human displacement is at a record high and refugee crises are increasingly urban. Research on forced migration has historically focused on the obligations of the nation state, overshadowing the role of …
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L.A. Micro-Publics : expanding the seams of the transportation system
The global city is the privileged site of "repositioning ... citizenship in practice," where traditional notions of identity and citizenship are being radically reconstructed. This thesis examines contemporary Los Angeles as such a site, a heterotopia built on difference, without a coherent civic …
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Urban Interventions: Architecture as a mechanism of inclusion
In the rapidly urbanizing world, it may seem normal to hear that while only 2% of the earth's surface is occupied by cities, 53% of the world's population lives in cities. What may seem alarming however is the fact that of that 53%, 33% of city dwellers today actually live in slums. To place …
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Producing a Black Oeuvre: Narratives of Black Grassroots Cultural Organizing in Boston
Amidst a bevy of nonprofits and governmental actors that support and facilitate cultural and aesthetic production in the City of Boston, a vanguard of Black artists and cultural organizers are developing structures and organizations to help local members of Boston’s Black communities steer their …
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"Museu das remoções" potencia de resistencia creativa y efectiva como respuesta sociocultural a Río de Janeiro en mega eventos.
This paper will examine the construction of the Evictions Museum in Vila Autódromo, which took place amidst the rise of various civil rights movements in Rio de Janeiro. The introduction of a form of city management called 'urban entrepreneurship,' (Harvey, 1996) prompted a steady loss of civil …
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Re-imagining a child-centric spatial environment that promotes quality of life for children in Altantis (Witsand)
… how Urban Design can promote quality of life for the development of children in Atlantis (Witsand). Altantis is located 45 kilometers north of Cape Town, Which is a long distance from the economic city centre. Atlantis was created in the early 1970s as a “model industrial node” within the …
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