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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
core   +1 more source

“We Are Willing to Change, If…”: Potential Impacts of Citizens' Assemblies on the Willingness to Change for Sustainability in Rural East German Municipalities

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of the democratic and social‐ecological crises, deliberative minipublics such as citizens' assemblies are increasingly implemented and discussed by scholars as a means for sound decision‐making and to enhance public support for sustainability transformations.
Lea Findeis, Nicolas Jager
wiley   +1 more source

Urban AI Guide

open access: yes, 2023
The URBAN AI GUIDE aids city leaders and urban technologists (academic, public, private, and community-focused) in better understanding how artificial intelligence operates in urban contexts.
Narvaez Zertuche, Laura   +2 more
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Civil Society Advocacy and Climate Change in Kenya: The Question of “Local Voices” and Their “Amplification”

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in addressing climate change is acknowledged, but engagement with questions of voice remains limited, especially in the Global South. Addressing this, this paper zooms in on (International) nongovernmental organizations ((I)NGOs) and their collaborations with domestic CSOs in the Global South on ...
Margit van Wessel, Precious Akampurira
wiley   +1 more source

Educating Future Generations of Community Gardeners

open access: yesCritical Education, 2012
In this paper, I formulate a Deweyan argument for school gardening that prepares students for a specific type of gardening activism: community gardening, or the political activity of collectively organizing, planting and tending gardens for the purposes
Shane Jesse Ralston
doaj   +1 more source

How Multiple Streams Influence Agenda‐Setting for Water Reuse in Swiss Substates

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As climate change creates significant challenges for both the environment and society, potential mitigation and adaptation solutions are widely discussed. Yet, neither challenges nor their potential solutions automatically reach the political agenda or lead to a policy decision.
Magdalena A. Knabl   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

#WomenSpatialActivism

open access: yesCubic Journal, 2019
The first attempt to reinvent the public spaces, #WomenSpatialActivism, reclaims the women’s right to the city in India. Women Spatial Activism (WSA) proposes a gender-sensitive approach to urban design in the neighbourhood of Malviya Nagar in Delhi in ...
Sugandha Gupta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural activism and the politics of place-making

open access: yes
In this paper, we explore the relationship between creative practice, activism, and urban place-making by considering the role they play in the construction of meaning in urban spaces.
Buser, Michael   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Produção capitalista do espaço e meio ambiente: ativismo urbano-ambiental e gentrificação verde no Brasil

open access: yesCadernos Metrópole
Resumo Um novo fato urbano tem ganhado terreno em diversas cidades do planeta: trata-se do fenômeno da gentrificação verde. O objetivo deste artigo é testar a aplicação do conceito em três cidades brasileiras: Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo ...
Pedro Henrique Campello Torres   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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