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REPRODUCING OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPES: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how ...
Bosman Batubara +4 more
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Managing Inflation Risk in Megaprojects: Contract Law and International Best Practices
, 2023 The writing deals with the problem of the current inflation’s level in megaprojects, in order to avoid that it leads to their failure. Firstly, the paper focuses its attention on the megaprojects’ contracts concluded when the purchasing power has been ...
Zecchin, F.
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Megaprojects: XL challenges in project organizing
, 2023 This chapter discusses the challenges of organizing megaprojects. Due to their scale, large number of subcontractors, enormous budgets, technological complexity, risks, high societal impact, and laborious collaboration between public and private partners
van Marrewijk, Alfons; id_orcid +1 more
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TERRITORIAL FORMATION, ECONOMY AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION PROJECTS IN PAN-AMAZON
Revista Tempo do Mundo, 2022 The objective involved in this article is centered on the analytical effort to contextualize the socio-spatial formation and the economy of the Pan-Amazon, as well as the regional integration processes, which we can say is closely ...
Irenildo Costa da Silva +1 more
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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 +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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The Role of the Electricity Sector in the Economic Development of Egypt
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2018 Egypt is the most dynamically developing country in the region of North Africa. In the nearest future, it is expected to turn into the largest economy of Africa in terms of GDP measured by PPP and to overtake Nigeria.
S. N. Volkov, A. Yu. Sharova
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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
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Managing change in megaprojects
, 2023 Management of change is an important aspect of managing any construction project. Much of the literature on management of change in projects concerns changes managed as variations to construction contracts.
Ghani, N.A., Tutesigensi, A.
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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
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