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Climate change and DIY urbanism in Luanda and Maputo: new urban strategies?
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2019 Climate-related phenomena historically have had an impact on the lives of urban dwellers of Luanda and Maputo. Recently, however, urban expansion and congestion of different sorts, aggravated by climate change impacts, call for renewed responses on the part of residents. Rising sea levels and harder impacts of flooding are the most disturbing issues in
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
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, 2023 Across Africa, protracted economic crises and enduring class stratification have impacted a majority of the continent’s city-dwellers, meaning that urban residents are forced to draw on their own resources and skills, often adopting experimental approaches to sustaining access to services and livelihoods.
Stephen Marr, Patience Mususa
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Exploring DIY urbanism as an unconventional solution for urban climate adaptation
npj Climate ActionAbstract Urban climate adaptation has advanced slowly because of complex and time-consuming processes. Residents are increasingly engaging in DIY urbanism, an underexplored form of autonomous adaptation in public space. This scoping review analyses the state of research on DIY urbanism as urban climate adaptation, and provides a first
Jänicke, Britta, Hahn, Rouven Philipp
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DIY Urbanism as a Tool of Urban Regeneration. Two Cases in Comparison [PDF]
International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, 2020 A process of urban regeneration should be able to produce social and spatial contextual effects. In order to achieve long-term results, it has to guarantee social inclusion. New rising ways of transformation of public space, consisting in the urban co-design, are defining new tools able to trigger processes of regeneration so called “community-led ...
Paolo Robazza +4 more
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ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement, 2023 This study explores the do-it-yourself (DIY) project in an urban context, a candle making with recycled used cooking oil (UCO), aiming to empower housewives in Gaga Village, Tangerang, Indonesia.
Ranti An Nisaa +2 more
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The aesthetics of green guerrilla. From activism to fine art
On the W@terfront, 2021 Grassroots movements – the activisms associated with the greening of the cities, reclaiming wastelands, establishing community gardens, improving the quality of life in industrialized places through minor nature-based interventions, as well as protection
Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek
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The aesthetics of green guerrilla. From activism to fine art.
On the W@terfront, 2022 Grassroots movements – the activisms associated with the greening of the cities, reclaiming wastelands, establishing community gardens, improving the quality of life in industrialized places through minor nature-based interventions, as well as ...
Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek
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Riverside Placemaking outside Big Cities—The Case Study of Three Polish Rivers
Land, 2023 Most placemaking activities have both tangible and intangible aspects. However, the most significant division line comes from the driving force behind the process, which can be either top-down formal actions or bottom-up informal ones.
Dawid Soszyński +1 more
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Peri-Urbanization in DIY and Its Relationship to Sustainable Agricultural Lands Protection Program [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 One of the main issues for cities in the world today is peri-urbanization. The rate of urbanization that occurred as an impact of industrialization resulted in a rapid population increase of urban areas. The increase of urban population causes the need of space for housing and other urban facilities also increase simultaneously, while administratively,
Nurcahyani Tita Thalia, Marwasta Djaka
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Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism in Glasgow's Community Gardens: The Practice of DIY Citizenship [PDF]
Antipode, 2016 In this journal, it has been suggested that citizens practising community gardening “can become complicit in the construction of neoliberal hegemony”. Such hegemony is maintained, it is argued, through the day-to-day work of neoliberal citizen-subjects, which “alleviates the state from service provision”.
John Crossan +3 more
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