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African Cities Through Local Eyes
This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning experiments. The international and balanced array of the collected contributions explore emerging research concepts for understanding urban and peri-urban processes in Africa, discuss bottom-up planning and design practices, and present inspirational and innovative co-design methods and participatory tools for steering such change through public spaces, sustainable services and infrastructures. The book is intended for students, researchers, decision-makers and practitioners engaged in planning and design for the built environment in Africa and the Global South at large.
The “Cardiology case” - My life. My truth
The protagonist of the “Cardiology Case” of Modena tells her own story. At the time, 2013, of publication of this book in Italy, than two years since the beginning of the story, she was still waiting to be judged, and after being “trampled morally and professionally”, she decided to let know “her” truth publishing documents, e- mails, minutes, reports, newspaper articles, etc. concerning the “Case”.
Handbook of Quality of Life and Sustainability
This handbook provides the latest research related to quality of life and sustainability, taking into account social, economic, environmental, and political/governance aspects as well as specific socio-spatial contexts. The volume includes contributions from established and upcoming scholars from various disciplines and geographical contexts (Global South and North). The varying cultural and socio-spatial contexts of the authors in the selected cases contribute to first-hand knowledge on the realities of sustainability issues affecting the quality of life. The authors apply a wide diversity of methods and tools, which facilitates a unique understanding of the interlinkages between quality of...
Coproducing Water, Energy and Waste Services
Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed. Today, this delivery model appears increasingly inefficient in two respects. It often fails in guaranteeing its financial viability and equitable service access, and and it generally draws heavily on the natural resources conveyed by these services. The book aims thus at exploring how service coproduction, based on public-community collaborations, can represent a valuable alternative to the conventional service provision model. Contributions in this book look into service coproduction and its relationship with the conventional service model both in the Global...
Engaging urban research in policy making
Cities are considered “engines of economic growth,” yet many cities in the global South struggle to increase productivity and provide significant economic opportunities for their growing populations. There is a need to deepen the knowledge on the links between public goods and services and equitable economic growth and how to support such processes, in policy and strategic terms, locally and globally. Against this background, this publication developed in the collaboration between Cities Alliance’s Equitable Economic Growth Cities Campaign initiative and three international research networks N-AERUS, AURI, REDEUS_LAC. The research explores how the interface between urban research and p...
Co-Production and Co-Creation
Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more of society’s capacities. In addition, it is seen as part of a more general drive to reinvigorate voluntary participation and strengthen social cohesion in an increasingly fragmented and individualized society. "Co-Production and Co-Creation: Engaging Citizens in Public Services" offers a systemat...
Territoires périurbains
Nous assistons actuellement au peuplement des zones périurbaines de la planète par des centaines de millions d’individus. Cette évolution pose de redoutables problèmes et des difficultés inédites pour les politiques publiques. Si les effets de la périurbanisation sont relativement bien connus dans les pays du Nord, les analyses dédiées aux pays du Sud sont bien moins développées. L’ouvrage Territoires périurbains. Développement, enjeux et perspectives dans les pays du Sud permet de lever un coin du voile sur cette problématique et sur les grands défis que la périurbanisation pose pour le Sud en général et pour l’Afrique centrale en particulier. L’o...
Il Caso Cardiologia
La protagonista del "Caso Cardiologia" di Modena si racconta. A oltre due anni dall'inizio della vicenda è ancora in attesa di essere giudicata, e dopo essere stata «calpestata moralmente e professionalmente» vuole fare conoscere la "sua" verità pubblicando documentazioni, e-mail, verbali, relazioni, articoli di giornali ecc. che riguardano il Caso.
Clara n°2/2014
Ce deuxième numéro de la revue CLARA Architecture/Recherche aborde deux thématiques qui se situent au coeur de récents débats d’architecture et de société. Dans un premier dossier thématique, étudiants et enseignants d’un atelier de la Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta, aidés de chercheurs de l’ULB, nous emmènent à la découverte des mosquées bruxelloises. À travers des relevés de terrain, des enquêtes et des projets, ils visitent l’architecture des lieux de culte musulmans, en questionnant la place de l’islam dans l’espace public et la capacité du tissu urbain et social bruxellois à accueillir de nouveaux usages. Un second dossier est consacré au récent transfert de l’enseignement de l’architecture à l’université. Il interroge l’historicité du dispositif pédagogique de l’atelier, la scientificité de la discipline architecturale, les défis de son enseignement et le statut de l’architecte.
Governance in International Livestock Research
Governance of organizations is less studied than management, yet is a key determinant of strategic vision and direction, oversight and values. An organization’s Board selects, appoints and monitors Management with which it must maintain a productive interaction with both parties understanding their different roles. International research institutions funded by variable contributions from wealthy national governments and philanthropic bodies have specific governance requirements. Neither governmental nor UN-style bodies offer prescriptions for the expertise and complexity of such legally constituted specialist organizations. In the case of such organizations as the International Livestock R...
