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Urbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2015 Santiago de León de Caracas siempre ha sido una ciudad de riesgos. Fundada, en 1567, en un valle fértil pero de topografía abrupta, sometido a la acción sismogénica del sistema de fallas de San Sebastián, Caracas ha padecido a lo largo de cinco siglos de
Alejandra Leal Guzmán, Florinda Amaya
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Field visits are common phenomena with non‐governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor‐oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field visits, this paper understands the field visit as a microcosm for the ...
Caspar Edward Swinkels
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Urban informality and confinement: toward a relational framework [PDF]
, 2017 In the 21st century, a growing number of people live ‘informal’ lives within fissures between legality and informality. Concomitantly, power relations are increasingly expressed through devices of confinement.
Agier M +26 more
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‘Risks’ as a justification for, and a challenge to, European territorial co-operation
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2007 Under the new ‘European territorial Co-operation’ objective of the EU’s cohesion policy the programmes for the funding period 2007-2013 refer to ‘natural’, ’environmental’ or ‘flood’ risks.
Ulrich Graute, Stephan Schöps
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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The Voluntary Association in The Slum [PDF]
, 1962 1 / Voluntary Associations in a Zone of Transition This report is a study of formal voluntary associations in a zone of transition. It seeks information on the various kinds of voluntary organizations to be found in such an area, the characteristics of ...
Babchuk, Nicholas, Gordon, C. Wayne
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Private Security and Public Space: New Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Gated Communities
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2006 This article reviews a range of arguments and some of the evidence on the emergence of gated communities or as they will be described in this article gated residential developments (GRDs).
Bill Smith Bowers, Tony Manzi
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Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney +6 more
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The Limits of Polycentrism at the City-regional Scale: The case of Luxembourg
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2014 Over the last fifteen years, promoters of the European spatial planning policy have presented polycentrism as the most promising strategy for answering the challenge of a more even spatial development.
Antoine Decoville, Olivier Klein
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INTERNAL MIGRANTS IN THE PERCEPTION OF THE HOST POPULATION OF KAZAKHSTANI CITIES
The Journal of Psychology & SociologyThe purpose of this article is to identify and comparatively analyze the perception of internal migrants by representatives of the host urban society. In the study, a series of focus groups were conducted in three cities to collect data, namely, Astana ...
Sabira Serikzhanova
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