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An Ecological Assessment of Property and Violent Crime Rates Across a Latino Urban Landscape: The Role of Social Disorganization and Institutional Anomie Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The present research put forth an integrated theoretical framework aimed at providing a more holistic community- level approach explaining crime across a heavily populated Latino city.
Cancino, Jeffrey Michael   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Food Policies: Governance Processes and Policy Designs From Three Spanish Cities

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the integration of gender mainstreaming in urban food policies (UFPs) through three Spanish case studies: Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza. While UFPs are pivotal for addressing sustainability in urban food systems, attention to gender disparities within them remains insufficient.
Chiara Bergonzini, Francesca Donati
wiley   +1 more source

An Institutionalist View on Experimentalist Governance: Local-level obstacles to policy-learning in European Union Cohesion Policy

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2017
The paper has the dual objective of contributing to theory development as well as to the debate about the added value of EU Cohesion Policy.
Stefan Telle
doaj  

Habitações operárias: evolução das imagens de representação

open access: yesUrbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2011
O surgimento das cidades ao redor das fábricas a partir da Revolução Industrial acarretou em um acelerado processo de urbanização devido a necessidade por moradias por parte do contingente desenfreado de imigrantes-operários vindos do campo.
Daniela Ketzer Milano
doaj   +1 more source

Architects and designers meet sociologists to design urban space : reflection on the (im)possible crossing of disciplinary borders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Space as an academic concept occupies a place in various disciplines and professions. In each case it tends to be named, studied, understood and created in the appropriate conceptual apparatus, using the relevant methodology for the acquisition and ...
Nóżka, Marcjanna   +1 more
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Insurgent participation: consensus and contestation in planning the redevelopment of Berlin-Tempelhof airport [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Despite decades of debate, participatory planning continues to be contested. More recently, research has revealed a relationship between participation and neoliberalism, in which participation works as a post-political tool—a means to depoliticize ...
Hilbrandt, Hanna
core   +2 more sources

How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges to Local Government Innovation: Legal and Institutional Impediments to the Exercise of Innovative Economic Development Policy by Subnational Jurisdictions

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2013
A local government can use innovative governance practices to expand its jurisdictional capacity, thereby promoting local economic development.
Adam Grydehøj
doaj  

O saber médico e a utopia da cidade higiênica no contexto luso-brasileiro (1750-1800)

open access: yesUrbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2012
A partir de tratados e memórias de medicina, esse artigo busca compreender o olhar médico produzido sobre as cidades entre metade do século XVIII e início do XIX.
Jean Luiz Neves de Abreu
doaj   +1 more source

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

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