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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"urban peripheries"”.
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Understanding landscape dynamics using spatial metrics: A case of Maseru City Council (MCC), Lesotho
… growth together with an irreversible process of urbanisation results in productive agricultural land which serves as the main source of livelihood under pressure for residential purposes. The reason being rapid urbanisation led to rapid increase of informal settlement in the developing countries …
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Situações de risco e vulnerabilidade social: desafios, perspectivas e implicações para a Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), em periferias urbanas
… social vulnerability classes EJA located in urban peripheries, because of an experience we live when youth and adult educator in a school located on the outskirts of Mandacaru (Wet Edge) neighborhood. Besides the report of the experience, was also included in this work the theoretical …
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Assessing the implementation of neoliberal policies in the city of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality: challenges of service delivery
… focus on the townships and informal settlements (urban peripheries), specifically focusing on the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The City of Johannesburg has faced the challenge of protest action against the local government proportionally more often compared to other …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… post-Fordist socio-spatial dynamics occurring in urban peripheries are reshaping what is collectively understood by working-class identities, their boundaries and markers, and what limitations social democratic political organisations face when appealing to them. The underlying processes affecting …
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Politics of Writing: Latin American Testimonio, Brazil's Literatura Marginal and the Question of Neoliberalism
… expression of the individual residents of the urban peripheries of the metropolises of Brazil, this study finds not only thematic continuities between the two discursive modes, showing that testimonio not only taught us important lessons and continue to provide a pathway to understanding the …
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Urban flood mitigation through land-use adaptation : a socioecological perspective of Paraty
… of adapting land-use change dynamics in periurban floodplains to the Social Function of Property and the City, as a potentially effective way of mitigating urban flood risks. The Brazilian city of Paraty is the empirical object of analysis, considering the Mateus Nunes and Perequê-Açu river …
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Creole identity: a post-colonial research in contemporary Mauritius
… been enclaved into degraded slums in the outer urban suburbs. This research also considers the creoles’ problematic contribution to wider creolisation in Mauritius (i.e., socio-cultural changes, the entanglement of cultures, transculturation, and miscegenation). This research examines creoles …
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A periferia urbana como lugar da educação patrimonial: o ensino de História no Grande Bom Jardim
… and practices about potentialities of the urban periphery as place of the construction of historical knowledge, focusing in Grande Bom Jardim, a neighborhood in Fortaleza. The work was inserted in the line of research Historical Knowledge in Different Spaces of Memory and has as main issue …
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Celebratory Insurgency. The Art of Peripheral City-Making
Urban peripheries across Latin America have witnessed an explosion of cultural initiatives led by the youth born and raised in the neighborhoods built by their parents. This phenomenon is both insurgent, in its creation of uncharted opportunities for peripheral residents to thrive, and celebratory …
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The Informalization of Formal Housing Projects in the Global South: Policy Failure or Counterhegemonic City-making?
… 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 stability of …
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The Right to Access: credit, concrete hope and a new politics of worth in Brazilian community banks
… subjectivity, and social relations in Brazil's urban peripheries, through a study of the Bem Community Bank in the community of São Benedito (Vitória, Espírito Santo). Drawing on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork and 33 in-depth interviews, the research follows the lives of eleven residents …
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The role of urban design in South African corridor development
… tiers of government and in local authorities. Urban development policy was repeatedly rewritten; first in response to the dictates of the socialist RDP in 1994, and again in response to a neo-liberal GEAR in 1996. In 2000 the fragmented urban management system of appointed officials was …
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Producción de la Vivienda de Interés Social en el Hipercentro del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito. Estudio de caso del Plan de Uso y Gestión del Suelo (PUGS)
… VIS basado en la configuración de las periferias urbanas del DMQ, que ha acentuado la desigualdad y exclusión social, la presente investigación tiene como objetivo principal evaluar el impacto del nuevo Plan de Uso y Gestión del Suelo (PUGS) en la producción de Vivienda de Interés Social (VIS) en …