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Examining the effect of project planning on megaproject performance: The conditional mediating role of integration

Developments in the Built Environment
While the project planning-performance relationship received much attention, the effects of project planning on megaproject performance have not been investigated empirically and little is known about the conditional mediating process between them.
Wensheng Lin, Guangbin Wang, Yan Ning, Qiuwen Ma, Yanyu Chen   +4 more
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HOUSING RETROFIT AND THE JUST TRANSITION IN THE METROPOLIS: Governance, Redistribution, and Inequality in London and Barcelona

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato, Marc Martí‐Costa, Cecilia Conde López   +2 more
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Identifying a Theoretical Framework for Megaprojects Success and Failure Factors: A Meta-Synthesis Approach [PDF]

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Megaproject means projects with a wide range of efforts to achieve strategic goals in time, financial and qualitative macro frameworks. Megaprojects have deep, comprehensive and lasting outcomes.
Jafar Gheidar-Kheljani, pedram jahedi
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
wiley   +1 more source

Chinas Megaproject – Global Security Analysis [PDF]

, 2017
The People’s Republic of China (China) is taking serious steps in accordance with its global development strategy of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative.
Jeremić, Zlatan
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THE URBANISM OF EXCEPTION: Scalar Rivalry and Political Loyalty in the Making of the Panorama Tbilisi Megaproject

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In flawed democracies, such as the Republic of Georgia, legal exceptions for urban megaprojects are becoming a standard mode of governance. While frequently analyzed as singular, top‐down sovereign acts, I argue that the imposition of such exceptions is a complex and dispersed process.
David Gogishvili
wiley   +1 more source

NEGATIVE ASSETS: Settler Colonialism, Speculative Urbanism, and the Moral Economy of Smallholding on Nairobi's Real Estate Frontier

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The expansion of Nairobi's real estate frontier into its peri‐urban hinterlands creates new opportunities and new dilemmas for smallholder families whose land is skyrocketing in value. Instead of taking the opportunity to become urban rentiers, many smallholders across Nairobi's peripheries are selling their inherited ‘ancestral’ plots in ...
Peter Lockwood, Smith Ouma, Tom Gillespie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conclusions and reflections: what have we learnt about megaproject leaders? [PDF]

, 2021
This book focuses upon the central research question: what we can learn from the personal views of megaproject leaders in managing their projects? To answer this question a group of 18 authors used the biographical research method to collect data on the ...
Marrewijk, AV, Muller, R, Shankaran, Shankar, Drouin, N, Ralf Müller, van Marrewijk, Alfons; id_orcid, Drouin, Nathalie, Sankaran, S, Müller, Ralf, Shankar Sankaran, Alfons van Marrewijk, Nathalie Drouin   +11 more
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EMIGRE CITY‐MAKING: The Micropolitics of Diasporic Real Estate Investment and Urban Growth in Pakistan

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contemporary cities in the global South are being reshaped through the intersecting logics of burgeoning real estate sectors and diasporic investment. This article examines the case of Pakistan to explore how emigration trajectories and remittance practices contribute to the transformation of urban landscapes in countries of origin through ...
Fatima Tassadiq
wiley   +1 more source