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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 ... -
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 ... -
Social and physical integration of refugees: comparing models of urban integration in Barcelona and Athens
(2018-05-28)The current humanitarian crisis in the Middle-East has enhanced the long process of forced migration over the last decades. The effect of this massive emigration has affected the physical nature of the ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
The scales of attachment: exploring territory attachment at Nahr el-Bared refugee camp and the mechanisms to overcome transience
(2018-05-22)Refugee camps, as emergency responses, embodies a hall of characteristics marked by the permanent temporariness. However, they gradually evolve, becoming informal urban settlements. Nahr el-Bared, the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Toward a community resilience assessment: exploring fertile soils in the spanish context
(2017-05-18)Over the last few years, the concept of resilience has been increasingly used in scientific and policy circles. In particular, the focus on the potential role played by communities in enhancing resilience ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“Smart city? What address are you looking for?” Perception and participation in India’s smart cities through the case of Pune
(2017-05-25)India’s Smart Cities Mission aims to improve the quality of life in 100 of its cities through a citizen-centric and all-inclusive strategy of physical, social, institutional and economic infrastructure. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...