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Social sustainability: Do-it-yourself urbanism, start-it-yourself urbanism [PDF]

open access: yesGeoforum, 2023
Many definitions of social sustainability focus on community engagement and economic equity as the main determinants of social sustainability. Measures to achieve social sustainability need to address (a) poverty, and (b) poverty-generating mechanisms or social and political exclusion. Governments do not take adequate steps toward social sustainability.
Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat
exaly   +10 more sources

Repair und Do-it-yourself Urbanism in Wien aus Bezirksperspektive [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In Wien wie auch in anderen europäischen Großstädten werden jährlich Tonnen von Elektrogeräten, Möbeln, Textilien, Spielzeug und anderen Alltagsgegenstände entsorgt, obwohl diese oftmals lange weiterverwendet werden könnten. Zugleich lässt in Wien ein Anwachsen von Do-it-Yourself-Aktivitäten, Repair-Initiativen und -Workshops beobachten, die unter den ...
Jonas, Michael, Segert, Astrid
core   +9 more sources

Experimentation, privilege, and difference: The politics of do‐it‐yourself urbanism

open access: yesGeographical Research
AbstractThe Canterbury Earthquake Sequence of 2010–2012 was devastating for Christchurch, New Zealand, a city built on a floodplain. The sequence resulted in widespread damage across the central business district (CBD) and residential areas. Alongside, and in contrast to, orthodox planning responses by the New Zealand Government, playful, creative, and
Francis L Collins   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Do it Yourself (DIY) Movement in Urban Space Production [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Planning, 2017
Even though urbanism is usually realized within a plan, it is sometimes formed by spontanous interventions of various actors. This study deals with the second type that includes small scale practices spontaneously realized in cities. The aim of this study is to examine the examples of these movements, which are known as 'do it yourself urbanism' (DIY ...
ATAY KAYA, İLGİ, KUT GÖRGÜN, ESRA
openaire   +3 more sources

Narrativas para un diseño urbano extendido: Urban hacking y apropiación en el barrio La Chimba

open access: yesDiseña, 2016
Los últimos años se ha venido desarrollando un cuestionamiento al carácter top-down de la pla­nificación urbana y a las ineficiencias que muchas veces manifiestan los programas burocráticos y centralizados para observar los problemas de la ciudad.
Martín Tironi
doaj   +9 more sources

Glimpses of a new profession within tactical urbanism

open access: yesPlaNext, 2018
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in urban tactics. While a precise definition of the banner urban tactics is problematic, the generally recognized common features of such practices are the short-term, the small spatial scale, a ...
Camilla Guadalupi
doaj   +3 more sources

The public health response to ‘do-it-yourself’ urbanism

open access: yesGlobal Health Promotion, 2015
Greater understanding of the important and complex relationship between the built environment and human health has made ‘healthy places’ a focus of public health and health promotion. While current literature concentrates on creating healthy places through traditional decision-making pathways (namely, municipal land use planning and urban design ...
Sibbald, Shannon L.   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Measuring Intensity – Describing and Analysing the “Urban Buzz”

open access: yesIconarp International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 2019
Density or Intensity? There is much debate about how to measure density – dwellings per hectare, bedrooms per hectare or people per hectare; including or excluding major highways, parks and open spaces; the permanent population only or the transient one
Tim Stonor
doaj   +1 more source

How to Define the Urban Comfort in the Era of Smart Cities through the Use of the Do-It-Yourself Approach and New Pervasive Technologies [PDF]

open access: yesThe 4th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 2017
The “Smart” concept applied to the cities intends to improve different fields of the urban context and in particular the life quality of citizens. An important part of the overall well-being is the urban comfort, defined as a function of some environmental parameters.
Francesco Salamone   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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