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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 ... -
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 ... -
Build back better? Not only a technical matter. Insights from owner-driven reconstruction in Nepal
(2017-05-26)Post-disaster Recovery and Reconstruction play a vital role in amplifying or reducing the magnitude of future hazards, challenging communities to Build Back Better in order to reduce their exposure to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Female consciousness and social activism: a gender análisis of the Plataforma de los Afectados por la Hipoteca de Barcelona
(2018-05-22)This thesis examines the role of women in the Plataforma de los Afectados por la Hipoteca de Barcelona (PAH BCN), a movement fighting for the right to housing. While the female presence in the PAH BCN ... -
From privatisation to the human right to water in Latin America: a closer look at Uruguay, Argentina and the plurinational state of Bolivia
(2017-05-25)Following the many failed private-sector management contracts in Latin America, the anti-privatisation campaigns have gradually risen in numbers and shifted their attention towards the Human Right to ... -
Immigrants’ employment and integration in Barcelona: a qualitative study
(2017-05-18)The research addresses the role played by employment in the Integration process of immigrants in Barcelona, Spain. It regards two main identified aspects of Integration: 1) legal insertion (related to ... -
(IN)formal conquers: a critical assessment of manteros’ public space occupation in Barcelona
(2018-05-22)Cities bonded to tourism in the global North are facing a series of issues in their public spaces that have to do with informality, materialized as unofficial street vending. This dynamic phenomenon is ... -
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 ... -
An inquiry into the culture of Street vending: accounts from Sitabuldi Market, Nagpur
(2018-05-28)Vendors are quintessential to Indian streets. These wandering merchants have intrinsically woven themselves into the historical and social fabric of our cities. Despite this, many perceive them as ... -
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 ... -
Integrative refugee housing: the efficacy of adaptative reuse in the United States and Germany
(2017-05-25)The combination of recent refugee crises and related anti-immigration political sentiment has led an increasing number of countries to enact restrictive refugee policies. For instance, despite a long, ... -
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 ... -
Negotiating cultural identities in post-conflict spaces: the memorial landscapes of Nicosia
(2016-05-17)During the last fortytwo years, Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus has been a city divided by the Green Line after a long period of intercommunal conflicts and the Turkish military invasion in 1974. ... -
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 ... -
Rebuilding from the ground up. The role and challenges of knowledge exhange in supporting post-disaster self-recovery in the Philippines
(2018-05-22)Less than 15% of the population affected by natural disasters receive shelter assistance from humanitarian or governmental institutions; the other 85% reconstruct their own places independently. When ... -
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 ... -
Residents’ perceptions: a collective critical cartography of gentrification in Vallcarca, Barcelona
(2018-05-29)Displacement of low-income workers as a result of speculation processes is a challenge recognized by the current government of Barcelona. The physicality of speculation can be broadly noticed when a ...