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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ...