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The resilience balancing act: how New York has balanced built environment and community approaches in it’s resilience framework
(2019-05-27)
Ensuring that cities are resilient against increasing risks of flooding is one of the greatest challenges for planners, especially within coastal cities like New York. Current literature has examined ...
The temporal migrant city: a study on the relationship between sub-saharan migrants and the city of Algiers
(2019-05-20)
Over the last fifteen years, there has been an increase in migratory flows of West Africans to Maghreb and Europe. Studies indicate that the trans-Saharan migration to the Maghreb region by sub-Saharan ...
Spaces of cultural exchange: integration of migrant communities in urban life through commoning practices in Athens
(2019-05-20)
Greece is a country with a large number of immigrant populations having various integration needs. To a large extent, these needs are covered by facilities open to migrant communities that help them ...
Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS): a neighbourhood scale approach for urban stormwater management. The case of Bon Pastor, Barcelona
(2019-05-20)
The increase of floods and the inability of aging sewage infrastructure to deal with stormwater retention led Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) to be one of the emerging paradigms for urban ...
Learning through housing activism in Barcelona: knowledge creation and exchange in neighbourhood-based housing groups
(2019-05-27)
As a reaction to a severe housing crisis, Barcelona’s civil society has been creatively reclaiming a radical right to housing. Previously centralized in one specific movement, housing activism in the ...
Economic recovery and vulnerable communities’ resilience: insights from two case studies in Mexico
(2019-05-20)
Most strategies developed to support recovery in the aftermath of disasters tend to address psychological, social, economic, and infrastructure issues separately. Drawing upon literature, authors agree ...
What is the future of a city center after an earthquake? A case study of the reconstruction process of Portoviejo, Ecuador
(2019-05-20)
The lack of coordination between national and municipal government entities, and the always-changing nature of their policies tend to create contradictory scenarios in reconstruction processes. This ...
Rehumanising refugee camps through sustainable environmental interventions: exploring the need for green initiatives in and around refugee camps in Lesvos
(2019-05-20)
‘68.5 million displaced people worldwide’ is a common phrase, known to most in the humanitarian field to emphasize the importance of the attention the refugee crisis needs (UNHCR, 2018). What we are ...
Are we exporting problems or solutions? A model for Transitional Field Hospitals in Natural Disasters
(2019-05-20)
Natural disaster and conflict scenarios present challenging environments for healthcare treatment. In remote or underdeveloped areas where already scant healthcare services exist, this need is exacerbated ...
Where are the NGOs? A case study of State-Led urban upgrading processes in Medellin, Colombia
(2019-05-20)
The focus of this thesis is the role NGOs have taken in response to government led urban upgrading processes in the context of Latin America. As more local governments in the region have adopted integration ...