Browsing Master's Degree in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Memory space as symbolic repair in post-conflict situation: the case of Bojayá
(2020-05-29)During the last fifty years of armed conflict in Colombia, the Pacific region was one of the most affected with both severity and frequency. The Bojayá massacre (May 2, 2002), marked forever the lives ... -
Integrating refugees in shrinking cities through adaptative reuse: architectural principles for refugee housing projects
(2020-05-29)In the current European context, characterised by an already tight housing market, finding adequate affordable housing to ensure successful integration for a growing influx of refugees is a major ... -
Crises, capital & the immigrant: the impact of platform-delivery work on the socio-spacial integration of immigrant riders in Barcelona
(2020-05-29)In his 1872 polemic, "The Housing Question", German philosopher Friedrich Engels addressed the housing problems faced by the proletariat migrant workers in major industrial centres. He asserted that ... -
Perceptions of place within paradoxes of inclusion and exclusion: the case of unaccompanied youth migrants in Sweden
(2020-05-29)This thesis focuses on unaccompanied youth migrants in urban centers. For this study, I have looked into two main arguments – one that says that social inclusion and exclusion are inherent in any social ... -
Towards preventative urban health resilience: a case study of Cairo’s heliopolis
(2020-06-08)The increasing prevalence of diseases in urban populations caused by poor living conditions and social inequities is a major concern for cities and their dwellers alike. This concern has become even ... -
Waiting in non-places: the spatialization of discourses in Mexico’s migrant integration centres
(2020-06-08)Over the last few decades, the process of labelling migrants and refugees has become increasingly politicized. And yet, these labels imply access (or lack thereof) to resources, rights and protections ... -
Supporting self-recovery in post-conflict situations: insights from Syria
(2020-06-08)Self-recovery shelter support is a modality of humanitarian aid which remains illdefined and misunderstood despite the many aid organizations that attempt to undertake this work. Of the existing knowledge ... -
Assessing disaster risk reduction in refugee camp design: the case of Al-Wehdat and Azraq refugee camps in Jordan
(2022)Regionally, Jordan is considered one of the most refugee-welcoming countries, as today it hosts around three million refugees and asylum seekers. This situation puts cities in confrontation with ... -
The influence of background factors on children’s level of learning about disaster: the case of Bandung metropolitan area
(2023)After one decade of internalizing disaster management in a national plan, including in disaster education at schools, the disaster awareness level in Indonesia is still low. One of the possible factors ...