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Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation

Policy & Society, 2023
Megaprojects are increasingly common across countries and attract substantial political attention from a variety of actors. Recent studies have highlighted the need to move from an understanding of megaprojects as linear and rational processes towards ...
Giovanni Esposito, Andrea Felicetti, A. Terlizzi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Megaprojects as Niches of Sociotechnical Transitions: The Case of Digitalization in UK Construction

Social Science Research Network, 2023
Transitions are processes of systemic change where niches peripheral to a sociotechnical regime accumulate momentum, scale up and eventually transform its core.
Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki, Davicita Morgan, Dr George Papachristos   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Megaprojects as Disorderly and Unruly Endeavors

ARCHive-SR, 2020
Megaprojects have multiplied around the world as an urban response to the pressures of neoliberalism and globalization in favor of development, competitiveness and innovation.
Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría
doaj   +1 more source

A Networked Game Theoretic Model for Evaluating Resilience in Megaprojects: Integrating Stakeholder Interactions and Lifecycle Adaptability

Syst.
Megaprojects are complex systems comprising interdependent subsystems and diverse stakeholders, each contributing to the project’s resilience and long-term outcomes.
Hongsi Zhang, Shukai Jiang, Xing Lin, Xiang Yu, Wenjiang Zheng   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Local community engagement as a practice: an investigation of local community engagement issues and their impact on transport megaprojects' social value

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2023
PurposeTransport megaprojects often struggle to offer social value (SV) that meets local communities' needs. This problem is embedded in how local communities' views are captured and incorporated into SV plans through local community engagement (LCE). By
Ata Babaei, G. Locatelli, T. Sainati
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

Exploring the causes of contract disputes and their social network relationships in the megaprojects: a case of Jinan Airport Project

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
Contract disputes hinder the successful delivery of megaprojects. This study aims to identify crucial contract disputes and causes for dealing with contract disputes problems and improving megaproject performance.
Hong Xue, Chao Ye, Cheng Zhang, Zezhou Wu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source