562 20 11648 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tammaru, Tiit. Supervisor Jauhiainen, Jussi S. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kährik, Anneli Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Description An account of the resource The thesis examines the main factors that have led to changes in socio-spatial residential pattern in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, and its surrounding region in the post-socialist period, and analyses transformation of this pattern during the period 1991–2005. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter and four publications. The data used for analysis have been derived mainly from national residential surveys (covering the period 1995–1999) and residential surveys carried out in Tartu (1998) and in new suburban settlements of the Tallinn metropolitan region (2006). There is a widespread agreement that substantial differences existed between socialist and capitalist social systems, resulting in different mechanisms of socio-spatial urban pattern formation and influencing the pattern of residential segregation. Socialist cities are generally characterised by a lower level of residential segregation as compared to capitalist cities. Transition from socialist to market economy in Central and Eastern European countries has brought along new distribution mechanisms, while many continuities originating from the previous system can also be seen. The path dependence embraces the conversion of different types of capital, suggesting that capital accumulated under the communist regime can serve as an advantage, securing a good starting position at the doorstep of the new system. All the main preconditions for enhanced residential segregation, i.e. increasing social disparities, diminished public intervention – including housing privatisation – and increasing differentiation within the housing stock have paved the way for the expansion of socio-spatial disparities in the housing market of the capital city of Estonia during the post-socialist period. Transition to the market economy has altered social stratification orders in Estonia, allowing many ‘new groups’ to join the elite, whereas the institutional setting has also supported the conversion of capital for many members of the old communist elite. The increased social disparities have led to better visibility of the previously latent residential segregation pattern, as well as to changes resulting from selective residential mobility. The results of the empirical studies reveal that by the end of the 1990s, the socio-spatial residential pattern in Tallinn was to a large extent still characterised by the continuity of the socialist structures, and no substantial residential segregation or polarisation between housing submarkets and larger spatial units could be seen. However, new market distribution rules have led to a moderate but gradual increase in socio-economic residential disparities. The findings show that the Tallinn metropolitan area is characterised by the development of pockets of wealth and poverty within an otherwise mixed socio-spatial pattern. Some low-status tenement blocks in the inner city have been subject to continuous social decline during the transition period. In the more rapidly developing parts of the city region, in particular the most central gentrifying locations and low-rise suburbs attractive to the affluent, the structures of the old system contrast most sharply with the new market structures. Apart from these extremes, a vast majority of the population remains residing in socialist high-rise housing estates. Developments in these Soviet estates lead to a significant differentiation in the socio-economic residential status between the estates, which largely reflects the socialist housing allocation principles. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/handle/10062/661 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/938 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/c17f7b62dba56d2552a859786010bf9c.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Tartu Subject The topic of the resource urban form, urban space, residential area, post-socialist city, urban change, capitalism, economics, residential segregation, privatisation, housing, residential mobility Title A name given to the resource Socio-spatial residential segregation in post-socialist cities : The case of Tallinn, Estonia Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pun, Ngai. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Leung, Chi Yuen Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource This thesis is an interpretative ethnographic of two illegal hawker agglomerations sustained in the post-colonial Hong Kong. The focus of concern is on researching the everyday life resistance of the urban underclass living in a polarizing global city with a renewed Bourdieuian’s theory of practice. The persistence and resistance of illegal hawking and petty trading has denoted a reoriented street/informal politics countering the regulation and upsurge of the neo-liberal governance from the present entrepreneurial state. These groups of local and trans-local underclass have struggled tacitly and tactically in the margin to gain their independence and autonomy albeit under tight state control. During the research process, the author has identified a multiple layers of informal economic markets overlapping within a poor community located in the inner urban area. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/3615 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/939 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/ead5b18388a81372a81144be6615320d.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Subject The topic of the resource informal economy, trade, market, world city, global city, Bourdieu Pierre, urban sociology Title A name given to the resource Everyday life resistance in a post-colonial global city : A study of two illegal hawker agglomerations in Hong Kong Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Castro, Ricardo L. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Leventis, Panayiotis Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Description An account of the resource This study explores and reiterates the significance carried by the notions of place, multiplicity and experience in the approaches to the study of architecture, in the shaping of cultures, and in the construction of urban (hi)stories and topographies. The research aims to reveal the existence of a transcultural space constituting the cosmos of Nicosia, capital city of the late medieval and renaissance Kingdom of Cyprus. It is argued that the natural and built environment of the city simultaneously witnessed as well as constructed this highly obscure space, whose elusive nature has not been sufficiently or comprehensively researched thus far. The purpose of this study is to unearth numerous attempts at reconciliation by medieval civilizations, and to comprehend their repeated efforts at bringing in parallel existence and understanding adjacent, but seemingly oppositional or even confrontational, cultures and spaces. The method used engages a re-interpretation of Nicosia's urban space by means of a scholarly narrative, defined as a comprehensively annotated telling of citizens' experiences through the city. While maintaining that it is this telling which better exposes the city's character, past findings on the architecture, topography, and urban experience of Nicosia are concurrently examined, some of them accepted and others re-proposed. Different architectural and ethical realities for the city, as well as varied urban and social identities, emerge as possibilities for pondering only after the superimposition of scientific findings on an interweaving web of experiences, on the remarkably phenomenal world of medieval urban space. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84521&silo_library=GEN01 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/940 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/ffeb698214321768c48be0492c2df3a7.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available McGill University Subject The topic of the resource architecture, topography, urban life, urban culture, urban history, urban space Title A name given to the resource Nicosia, Cyprus, 1192-1570 : Architecture, topography and urban experience in a diversified capital city Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Davis, Diane E. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Libertun de Duren, Nora R Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007 Description An account of the resource This research presents the case of growth in Buenos Aires since the late 1970s, when the decentralization of urban planning powers in the Province of Buenos Aires began, until 2001, when an economic crisis submerged -even if transitorily- more than half of all metropolitan households below the poverty line. This thesis explores why social inequality within municipal boundaries increased after the municipalities acquired autonomous planning powers. It counts with three sections: Section I investigates how the decentralized planning practices of the municipalities of Greater Buenos Aires have impacted the growth of Buenos Aires. It explains the cluster of affluent gated communities in the poorest municipalities of the urban periphery as the outcome of the special permits that these municipalities gave to real estate developers. Section II explains how national development policies have contributed to the impoverishment of these municipalities. It depicts how these policies have generated a persistent flow of poor residents to Greater Buenos Aires at the same time that they have diminished the economic sufficiency of local governments. Section III explains why these municipalities did not resist these transformations. This research has found that national industrialization policies determined much of the fate of Greater Buenos Aires. Because of the limitations that the preexisting geography of development imposes on local participants, decentralization cannot prevent social polarization when only the highest income sectors have the resources that can activate local economies. Nevertheless within these circumstances, municipal planning practices and local polities have determined the specific geography of social inequality. Thus, participatory institutions are necessary, but not sufficient to transcend social inequality. Social inequality in the metropolis will diminish only after a development project on the national scale is developed. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42062 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/941 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/1423758e540b3b830248bfda68c81fa6.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Massachusetts Institute of Technology Subject The topic of the resource urban growth, poverty, social inequality, urban planning, local authorities, urban policy, urban development, economy Title A name given to the resource Growth and poverty in the urban fringe : Decentralization, dispersion, and inequality in greater Buenos Aires Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kombe, Wilbard. Supervisor Johansson, Rolf. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Limbumba, Tatu Mtwangi Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource This study explores the factors urban residents consider when making residential location decisions. The context of the study is informal residential areas in a rapidly urbanising African city – the city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. A central concern in the study is how the urban poor make their residential location decisions; the assumption is that with income limitations the urban poor rely on other non-economic resources to enable their residential location decisions in the context of rapid urban growth and urban poverty. The study attempts to question residential location choice concepts that rely on economic approaches as well as question explanations based on the developing world experiences. The study suggests that in the absence of reliable incomes, social networks and informal channels prevail in the decision-making process. The concept of social capital where networks and social relationships are used as a resource by individuals or groups to achieve goals is explored in a residential choices framework. Demonstrated through in-depth interviews with heads of households settling close to the CBD (termed the inner city), the intermediate informal residential areas and the peri-urban residential areas; the study shows how socio-cultural factors play a role in the decisionmaking process of households. This is illustrated inter alia, in the form of informal channels for information on accommodation and residential plots, being accommodated rent-free by a relative, the actions of subsequently making short-distance moves to a location within proximity of a relative, or seeking people of the same socio-economic status. The context within which the actions have taken place has also been shown to be important in corroborating the network and relationship elements in the concept of social capital. The uncertainty that residents in rapidly urbanizing cities have to deal with on an everyday basis calls for networks and relations as an important resource for survival. The study goes further to suggest how urban planning practice can learn from the social processes. The study is based on qualitative methods such as in-depth interviewing with heads of household and key informants. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-12136 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/942 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/005a0acb690c2a2147edd029ec8640b5.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available KTH-Royal Institute of Technology Subject The topic of the resource social networks, residential location, choice of location, informal settlement, social capital Title A name given to the resource Exploring Social-Cultural Explanations for Residential Location Choices : The case of an African City - Dar es Salaam Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Myers, Garth A. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Long, Joshua Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource An increasing number of North American cities are demonstrating vocal resistance to perceived homogenization and corporatization of the urban landscape. In Austin, Texas, a grassroots movement has emerged as a form of resistance to these cultural and economic changes. "Keep Austin Weird," a slogan that has evolved from grassroots cultural movement to rallying cry for local business, is now being appropriated by numerous cities experiencing similar growth patterns (i.e. Boulder, Louisville, Albuquerque, and Portland, Oregon). This particular research is investigated in light of recent studies of the "Creative Class." Austin has been dubbed a Creative City success story by scholar Richard Florida and others, but is experiencing many challenges and externalities typical of growth in so-called Creative Cities. Ultimately, this research explores the inherent interconnections between sense of place, urban governance, and popular resistance. It also questions the potential sustainability of creative strategies for growth and the importance of civic participation. Keywords: Creative Cities, Sense of Place, Localization, Urban Landscape. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5250 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/943 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/06c245f7f85773001e44fd4e973fd6f5.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Kansas Subject The topic of the resource urban geography, social movement, urban landscape, creative city, governance Title A name given to the resource Weird city : Sense of place and creative resistance in Austin, Texas Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Andræ, Gunilla. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lourenço-Lindell, Ilda Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Description An account of the resource Trends towards ‘informalization’ are looming large in the world today. African cities have long been characterised by the presence of an ‘informal sector’ but are now experiencing new waves of ‘informalization’. Policies of liberalisation and structural adjustment are both changing the conditions under which urban dwellers make a living and encouraging states to abdicate from responsibilities for popular welfare. In this context, urbanites increasingly rely on informal ways of income earning and of social security provisioning. This book is about processes of ‘informalization’ in the West African city of Bissau in Guinea-Bissau. It begins with a historical account of the way conditions of informality have evolved through the encounter of locally specific forms of informal relations with colonialism and the socialist era. This is followed by an analysis of how disadvantaged groups who rely on informal ways of provisioning are faring in the context of contemporary changes. The study looks at both the informal income-generating activities and the social networks that urbanites engage in to sustain their income activities and their consumption. It seeks to assess whether these groups are coping with these wider changes or are becoming marginalised from networks of assistance and from activities that provide sufficient incomes. The social relations pervading access to support and livelihood resources as well as the informal rules governing such access are in focus. Forms of regulation in the informal sphere are also discussed. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1385 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/944 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/c09bd894605ece67f0101cad665c0c0a.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Stockholm University Subject The topic of the resource social network, economics, informal economy, developing country Title A name given to the resource Walking the tight rope : Informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kombe, Wilbard. Supervisor Vestbro, Dick Urban. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lupala, John Modestus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Description An account of the resource One of the challenges confronting cities in non-industrialised countries today is the fact that cities are growing at unprecedented rates, sizes and densities. Growth trends in these cities are largely unregulated. In these countries, cities have changed in at least four major ways: their size, spatial organisation or morphology, the quality and distribution of public services and infrastructure and their employment base. While this situation can be attributed to global urbanisation trends, the general poor knowledge on how these cities develop, densify and acquire certain physical characteristics has limited effective urban planning and management. At times, the pervasive knowledge gap has been associated with the lack of relevant theories and concepts to explain the evolution, growth and prevailing spatial qualities. However, the limited research in this field has also contributed to this problem. The other problem that confronts the rapidly urbanising city is continued sprawl that has been manifested in externalities of inadequate infrastructure provision and under-utilisation of scarce resources, particularly land. This thesis is an attempt to contribute towards addressing these two problem areas. The main field of study is on urban types within a rapidly urbanising city context. Dar es Salaam city was selected as a case study area. The study explores the theoretical framework for classification and analysis of settlements. The relevance of this framework in the study context is examined. At low scale level, the study provides an analysis of house forms, density, plot characteristics, spaces and space uses in formal and informal settlements. The analysis shows that urbanisation under poverty and low-density urban types greatly influence the sprawling character of the city. The increasing market-led housing development and ineffective planning responses are contributing factors to the observed unguided densification and deteriorating spatial qualities. It has also been shown that while theoretical frameworks developed from most industrialised countries can be adapted to analyse urban types in non-industrialised countries, these theories are limited in comprehending fully the growth and character of rapidly urbanising cities. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3426 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/945 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/475b5776caaac1b7f571493ebff5a2f0.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available KTH-Royal Institute of Technology Subject The topic of the resource urban form, urban growth, urbanisation, urban space, urban sprawl, urban density, developing country Title A name given to the resource Urban types in rapidly urbanising cities : Analysis of formal and informal settlments in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Goheen, Peter. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mackintosh, Phillip Gordon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001 Description An account of the resource The moral injunctions about beauty and order that attach to turn-of-the-twentieth-century urban reform and city planning derived from the era's concern with Domesticity and evangelicalism. Evangelical Protestant women believed they could protect their homes and children by creating, safe, orderly, aesthetic--"homelike"--environments in the home and in the city. This environmentalist city milieu hummed with ideas appropriated from the Decorative Arts--the social necessity of art, the practicality of beauty, the beauty of practicality--and millennialism, namely the social, moral, and Christian efficacy of environmental perfectionism. Little wonder that city planners created perfectionist plans for the comprehensive implementation of beauty in the city. City planning emphasised parks, parkways, artfully designed roadways, and "street furnishing" to create cities that abated congestion and exuded probity in what planners saw as over-populated and immoral modern cities. In Toronto, parks and even asphalt pavement were conveyors of municipal beauty, dignity, and art, and could lend moral influence to a city under the weight of size, density, and heterogeneity. The creation of parks and diagonal roadways in both the 'Plan of 1909' and the 'Plan of 1929' were intended to add not only beauty through decorative design, but also practicality, by relieving the city of population and traffic pressures. The bicycle, too, was seen by Torontonians as means of beautifying the city; the creation of noiseless, clean, and smooth pavements would entice handsome bourgeois riders into the streets and effect the beautification of the human space of the city. Ultimately, this manifestation of "social environmentalism" signifies the organisational proclivity of reformers' geographic imaginations. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/s4-bin/Main/ItemDisplay?l=0&l_ef_l=-1&id=724139.474946&v=1&lvl=1&coll=18&rt=1&rsn=S_WWWlaaXm2ItG&all=1&dt=26189254 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/946 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/25c3b6b8f941500b279afbdbb00f3c0c.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Queen's University - Kingston Subject The topic of the resource imagination, urban planning, urban geography Title A name given to the resource Imagination and the modern city : Reform and the urban geography of Toronto, 1890-1929 Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rodger, Richard. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madgin, Rebecca May Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource The transition from deindustrial to post industrial city from the 1970s exposed how cities developed regeneration strategies as their traditional industrial base experienced terminal contraction. These strategies to re-make urban places positioned at their core an improvement of the built environment either by retaining and adapting or demolishing and replacing historic buildings. Decisions to re-use or demolish revealed the contemporary valorisations of the past as they mediated the extent to which the reinvention of the city embraced or denied the cumulative memories of the city. Unravelling these decisions revealed the process of urban change by exposing the management of urban regeneration, the actors and agencies involved, their motives, constraints and failings and their ability to access funding. How these actors valued, perceived, and subsequently received the cityscape was revealed by their decisions whether or not to incorporate the historic environment in their vision for the city. Moreover, how public and private agencies such as local authorities, government quangos, and entrepreneurs manipulated the existing capital stock to attract people and investment into the inner cities was a vital component of urban regeneration. Four stages of re-making places: recognising place, managing urban change, seducing urban users, and manipulating the historic environment that each exposed the contemporary valuations of the past were identified and were explored through an examination of two British and one French urban centre. By these means, and using these examples, the research located the practice of restoration and re-use in the context of place-making and value judgements to question the extent to which there was a contemporary place for urban history. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4076 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/947 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/f09222a6a24f9b5384188b800cd910bf.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Leicester Subject The topic of the resource post-industrial city, de-industrialisation, urban renewal, heritage, urban heritage, urban change Title A name given to the resource Urban renaissance : The meaning, management and manipulation of place, 1945 - 2002 Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kundu, Amitabh. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mahadevia, Darshini Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Description An account of the resource The aim of the proposed study is to investigate the emerging process of residential segregation within metropolitan cities with specific reference to two case studies. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in:8080/dspace/handle/2009/5881 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/948 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/568e6a8ef178e5ed07dbb3485918014d.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Jawaharlal Nehru University Subject The topic of the resource metropolis, residential segregation, housing, poverty, social housing Title A name given to the resource Emerging process of residential segregation in metropolitan cities : Case study of Bombay and Madras Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hage, Ghassan. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mar, Philip Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Description An account of the resource This ethnography is based on fieldwork in two very different cities, Hong Kong and Sydney. It traces the movements of subjects from Hong Kong through the analysis of differing modes of inhabiting urban space. The texture of lived spaces provides an analytic focus for examining a highly mobile migrant group. This ethnography explores the mesh of objective structures and migrant subjectivities in a mobile field of migrant ‘place’. A basic assumption of this study is that people from Hong Kong have acquired a common array of dispositions attuned to living in a specific environment. Hong Kong’s dense and challenging urban space embodies aspects of the singular historical ‘production of space’ underpinning a colonial entrepôt that has expanded into a major global economic node. The conditions of lived space are examined through an historical analysis of urban space in Hong Kong and an ethnographic analysis of spatial practices and dispositions. The sprawling spaces of suburban Sydney clearly differ sharply from that of Hong Kong. Interview accounts of settling in Sydney are used to investigate the ‘gap’ in spatial dispositions. Settling entails both practical accommodations to new and unfamiliar localities and an interweaving of cultural and ideological elements into the expanded everyday of migrant subjectivity. Language and speech are integral to spatial practices and provide means of referencing and evaluating ongoing social relations and trajectories. The ‘discourse space’ of interview accounts of settlement in Sydney and movements back to Hong Kong are closely examined, yielding an array of perceptions and representations of different, and contested styles of urban life. All the senses are brought into play in accounts of densities and absences in people’s everyday worlds. At the same time this thesis provides a perspective from which to interrogate contemporary interpretations of ‘transnational’ migration, suggesting the need for an analysis grounded in a specific economy of capacities and dispositions to appropriate social and symbolic goods. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1209 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/949 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/8bb2f27a535659d5fa18472d50fd6aa6.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Sydney Subject The topic of the resource immigration, urban space, migrant, ethnography Title A name given to the resource Accommodating places : A migrant ethnography of two cities (Hong Kong and Sydney) Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Carmona, M. I. Promotor Rosemann, H. J. Promotor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marengo, Maria Cecilia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource This research proposes to study spatial planning in a context of high social inequity. The analysis is focused on the possibilities that spatial planning has to attenuate conditions of inequity in urban development derived from urban growth process; in the framework of neoliberal policy orientation and new consensus on strategic planning developed in the last decades. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid:ccf91c24-f65b-4a20-9982-2b21451790f7/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/950 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/e69d6a96474a56fe46c71a615c2210dd.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available TU Delft Subject The topic of the resource urban sprawl, spatial planning, social equity, urban segregation Title A name given to the resource Urban sprawl and spatial planning : Facing the challenges of growing social inequity. Case study : Córdoba - Argentina Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sutcliffe, Anthony. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marmaras, Emmanuel V Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Description An account of the resource The thesis deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain on the one hand, and on the other, with the replanning efforts undertaken in London and especially the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the comprehensive development projects. The central hypothesis is that, although the planning thought, legislation and technique realised significant evolutionary steps by introducing important innovatory instruments and bold planning concepts, the rebuilding of Central London was not a success to a comparable extent. This divergence between concept, plan and outcome was mainly due to the difficulties faced during the implementation stage as a result of financial problems and, in addition, to the way that the application of aspects of Modern Architecture in some of the new buildings were carried out. The work is structured in three parts. The first one, under the title "Reconstruction and Planning Machinery", explores the administrative and statutory developments in town planning matters during the period 1940-1959. The conclusion of this analysis is that, because of the sweeping character of the new planning system which was introduced, a contradiction had emerged due to the pluralistic character of the British socio-economic system. The second part has the title “Replanning London” and deals with the plans proposed for London as a whole during the 1940s. The main finding was that the six plans which were proposed could be considered as sections of one planning endeavour. These plans have a unified and continuous character, although each one had been prepared by a different team of planners. Finally, the third part, under the title “Redeveloping Central London”, examines the proposals for the rebuilding of the City of London and for specific areas of Central London located on both sides of the Thames. The main conclusion of this analysis is that, although these projects introduced innovations concerning the control of urban densities, and the hygiene of residence and office accommodation in the city centre, they failed to achieve one of their main targets. This was the unification of both parts of Central London located at the north and south banks of the Thames. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/2381/7984 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/951 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/25f278cf9693dbc846d820ab3e1bc379.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Leicester Subject The topic of the resource reconstruction, urban planning, history of urban planning, post-war, city centre Title A name given to the resource Central London under reconstruction policy and planning, 1940 - 1959 Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bollerey, F. Promotor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Martire, Agustina Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource The urban waterfront is in the spotlight. During the last decades harbour facilities have been moved away from urban centres. Projects for the recovery and restructuring of obsolete industrial areas by the water are sprawling all over the globe. The process of recovery of the urban waterfront that takes place currently began more than a century ago with the discovery of the urban waterfront as a space of leisure. Waterfronts, as urban spaces, have followed a development signed by different conflicts than those of the rest of the city. On the one hand, they have been spaces especially open to intervention, for their location created little conflict with the social order of cities. On the other hand they have been conflicted spaces regarding the struggle between the installation of harbour facilities and leisure spaces, linked to jurisdictional problems between national and metropolitan authorities. The use of the urban waterfront as leisure space was different in Europe and in North and South America. In most of European capitals the waterfront was occupied by harbour facilities, and due to commercial expansion, these spaces were growing and became segregated from urban space. This process did not allow the development of leisure areas on the waterfront. On the other hand, in North and South America the waterfronts became spaces of opportunity and the development of harbour and leisure space was contemporary and flexible, giving an important role to landscape on the waterfront. The cases of Barcelona, Chicago and Buenos Aires appeared to be the most suitable for the analysis of this phenomenon. They appear as models for other waterfront cities throughout the western world. Incidentally they were also hosts of international exhibitions in the period between 1870 and 1930. This project studies the issues of these spaces with an analytical and critical view, searching for primary and secondary sources to evaluate the use of leisure in the projects for the urban waterfront and the way this has been practised in three particular case studies. The reciprocal influence between leisure activities, urban design and mass events are analysed as a main backbone of this research. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid:1344b20a-541f-4b76-b11e-758db2010b08/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/952 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/12744cbc3989217b1cf9e7f8ec80e72e.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available TU Delft Subject The topic of the resource urban history, leisure, park, public space, waterfront, port city Title A name given to the resource Leisure Coast City : A comparative history of the urban leisure waterfront. Barcelona. Chicago. Buenos Aires. 1870-1930 Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ivy, Marilyn J. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Martinez, Alejandra M. Leal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Description An account of the resource This dissertation examines the production and experience of class and racial distinctions in contemporary Mexico City by focusing on encounter and proximity between different social groups in the country's most emblematic urban center. It draws on eighteenth months of ethnographic fieldwork with artists and young professionals living in the city's historic center as part of a public-private redevelopment plan locally known as the "rescue." Led by multimillionaire Carlos Slim, this endeavor has been framed as an initiative of civil society to recover the symbolic heart of the nation from crime and illegality while transforming it into a secure and livable space for all Mexicans. The rescue mobilizes a neoliberal idiom of the modern (associated in Mexico and across the world with democracy and responsible citizenship, a retreating state and a free market economy) and epitomizes the illegibility of public and private distinctions. I focus on moments of encounter between the historic center's new affluent residents, on the one hand, and the inhabitants of its dilapidated tenements and the vendors of its informal street markets, on the other. Such encounters slide into suspicion, uncertainty, instability and misrecognition. In focusing on encounter I trace new residents' desire for commonality, for an "all of us" in the historic center (a recognition as urban dwellers or as fellow citizens), and their anxieties about the very possibility of this commonality. Such situated fears, I argue, articulate with longstanding elite apprehensions in Mexico about the popular masses, historically construed as the embodiment of the national subject and at the same time as the manifestation of atavistic residues. In the discourses and practices of different agents of rescue (new residents, the police, private investors and state officials) these masses figure at once as subjects to be redeemed and as plainly irredeemable others, unfit for the requirements of modern democratic citizenship. The dissertation thus traces relations between new residents' quotidian fears of crime and violence in the socially mixed spaces of the historic center on the one hand, and contemporary debates and anxieties over liberal democracy, citizenship and social belonging, on the other. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:10318 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/953 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/20e00c7f26cb0915ba2d1a36b0139875.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Columbia University Subject The topic of the resource diversity, social mix, class, ethnicity, social interaction, social segregation, urban space, urban planning, cultural anthropology, cosmopolitism Title A name given to the resource For the enjoyment of all" : Cosmopolitan aspirations urban encounters and class boundaries in Mexico City Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pichova, Hana. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mayhew, Linda Marie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2005 Description An account of the resource In Universe of the Mind, Yuri Lotman proposes that some cities are "eccentric". These eccentric cities do not clearly correspond to the nation in which they are located because of discrepancies in architecture, geography, or politics, thus pushing them to the edge or beyond a country's identity. The cities of Saint Petersburg and Prague represent two examples of cities existing beyond the boundaries of their respective cultures in the nineteenth century. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire and "Window to the West", represented a focus on foreign rather than native culture. Similar tensions between internal and external cultures plagued Prague, the capital of an imagined Czech nation, governed by the Austrian Empire and dominated by German language and art forms. This dissertation explores the ways in which these two eccentrically located urban spaces express the tensions between Western and Eastern Europe that arise from their geographical positioning and historical development as depicted in Nikolai Gogol's Petersburg Tales (1833-1842) and Jan Neruda's Prague Tales (1867-1878). These short story collections reflect the complex cultural geography of Petersburg and Prague and the complications of daily living caused by each city's particular eccentricity. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2281 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/954 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/2d95160d36a68503e3ad9d710f345b16.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Texas at Austin Subject The topic of the resource literature, urban culture, Gogol Nikolai, Neruda Jan, urban space, urban life, identity Title A name given to the resource Eccentric cities : Nikolai Gogol's Saint Petersburg and Jan Neruda's Prague Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Yencken, David. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mees, Paul Andrew Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997 Description An account of the resource This study examines the reasons behind the decline in public transport patronage in Melbourne between 1950 and 1990, through a comparison with Toronto. The share of urban travel undertaken by public transport has declined since the Second World War in all developed countries, but public transport patronage in Melbourne appears to have declined more rapidly than in most other industrialised cities. Public transport has, however, gained or held ground in Toronto, where the form of development is similar in many ways to Melbourne. Most accounts of Toronto's success (particularly in Australia) regard transport/land-use integration as the critical factor. The contrasting analysis maintains that Melbourne's urban form has changed over this period to a dispersed, car-oriented pattern. This study evaluates a different interpretation of the 'Toronto model'. This is that Toronto has undergone similar urban changes to Melbourne since the war, but has found a way of operating public transport successfully in a relatively dispersed environment. The contrast with Melbourne, then, is not primarily in land-use patterns, but in policies towards the operation of public transport. The principal research objective for this study is to determine the cause of the difference in public transport performance in Melbourne and Toronto since the war, with particular attention to the role played by urban form and transport policy. The research objective is addresed by examining current patterns of, and historical trends in, urban form in the two cities, and comparing these with public transport patronage trends. The comparison reveals that land use does not show correlations with public transport patronage. Patronage does, however, correlate closely with the differing quality of public transport services in the two cities. The explanation for the contrasting patronage performances is found to lie not in urban form, but in the different policies toward public trnasport in the two cities. In Metropolitan Toronto, services have been planned and integrated by a public monopoly; policy in Melbourne has been market-driven, and based around competition and extensive private sector involvement. Toronto's centrally planned system has proven the more flexible in practice, successfully responding to the challenges of changing travel patterns and rising car ownership. While public transport operators in Melbourne have competed with one another, Metro Toronto's single operator has competed with the car. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1411 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/955 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/49c77854c9bc4566b7a99b0a9e88c228.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Melbourne Subject The topic of the resource urban transport policy, public transport, land use, infrastructure, transport Title A name given to the resource Public transport policy and land use in Melbourne and Toronto, 1950 to 1990 Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Michell, Theodore Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Description An account of the resource The aim of this work is to question the notion of space that underlies the claimed ‘spatial turn’ in geographical and social theory. Section 1 examines this theoretical literature, drawing heavily on Soja as the self declared taxonomist of the genre, and also seeks parallels with more populist texts on cities and space, to suggest, following Williams, that there is a new ‘structure of feeling’ towards space. Section 1 introduces two foundational concepts. The first, derived from Soja’s misunderstanding of Borges’ story The Aleph, argues for an ‘alephic vision’, an imposition of a de-materialized and revelatory understanding of space. This is related to the second, an ‘ecstatic vision’, which describes the tendency, illustrated through the work of Koolhaas and recent exhibitions on the experience of cities, to treat spatial and material experience in hyperbolic and hallucinatory terms. Section 2 offers a series of theoretical reconstructions which seek to draw out parallels between the work of key theorists of what I term the ‘respatialization’ literature (Harvey, Giddens, Foucault and Lefebvre) and the work of Hillier et al in the Space Syntax school. A series of empirical studies demonstrate that the approach to the material realm offered by Space Syntax is not only theoretically compatible but can also help to explain ‘real world’ phenomena. However, the elision with wider theoretical positions points to the need for a reworking of elements of Space Syntax, and steps towards this goal are offered in section 3. In the final ‘speculative epilogue’ I reopen the philosophical debates about the nature of space, deliberately suppressed from the beginning, and suggest that perhaps the apparent theoretical and empirical versatility of Space Syntax, based upon a configurational approach to space as a complex relational system, may offer an alternative approach to these enduring metaphysical debates. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/4325/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/956 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/74bf2d027720a2124e8c3c2ed365d72d.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University College London (UCL) Subject The topic of the resource urban space, Soja Edward, Koolhaas Rem, Space Syntax, urban geography, urban society, urban form, spatial analysis, Harvey David, Giddens Anthony, Foucault Michel, Lefebvre Henri, Hillier Bill Title A name given to the resource The psychasthenia of deep space : Evaluating the 'reassertion of space in critical social theory' Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ribbert, Eckhart. Adviser Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Misselwitz, Philipp Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource Focussing on Palestine refugee camps in the Near East, this dissertation aims to shed light on the potential relevance of urban planning to refugee camp environments worldwide. In particular, there is a focus on the role architects and urban planners can play in facilitating participatory planning processes as well as providing guidance and expertise in the development of a spatial vision for Camp Cities. Part I – The Urbanisation of Refugee Camps as a Global Challenge The first part of the dissertation provides an overview of global phenomenon of refugee camp urbanisation. Notions of “Camp-City”, “Virtual City” and other conceptual models developed by international scholars in relation to camp urbanisation will be introduced and critically discussed in relation to existing tools and policy guidelines developed by the main agents of international refugee protection. The chapter focuses on debates and discussions that have led to the recent revival of “developmental” and “rights-based” approaches to UNHCR policies and programmes. However, the brief analysis of actual situations in three exemplary African camps reveals the many political hurdles and obstacles, which prevent a full implementation of a developmental and rights based approach in practice. Part II – Palestine Camp Cities: Case Studies of Urbanised Refugee Camps in the Near East The second part of the dissertation introduces Palestine refugee camps, the main focus of this dissertation and explains in detail the factors that have led to a spectacular and perhaps unparalleled urbanisation process. The discussion centres on the results of three holistic case studies of exemplary Palestine refugee camps in the West Bank. Analytical tools and methodologies from urban research in informal settlement contexts are applied to analyse land use, zoning, degrees of density and congestion, building safety, infrastructure and the camp’s physical integration into its urban, suburban or rural context. The spatial-physical situation analysis is complemented by an analysis of urbanisation in social and cultural terms including the camp’s institutions, leadership as well as gender roles, internal and external conflicts and resolution models. Part III – Camp Improvement Planning: Piloting Community-driven Urban Rehabilitation for Palestine Camp Cities The third part provides a critical reflection on the pilot project in participatory camp improvement conducted by the UNRWA-Stuttgart planning team between 2007 and 2008. Successes and conflicts of planning process are being analysed, followed by critical comments on key outstanding issues that need to be resolved before camp improvement can be fully launched in all camps. Three speculative scenarios are introduced: A worst case scenario which predicts a catastrophic future for Camp Cities in case the camp improvement initiative or its successors will fail. A second scenario speculates on how successful camp improvement might prevent the gloomy predictions of scenario one as a “best possible compromise” in the context of an enduring refugee crisis. While camp rehabilitation cannot and should not substitute a long-overdue political settlement, in the intermediate term, the traditional notion of “Refugee camps” could be radically redefined in the interest of those suffering under the extreme congestion, poverty and dehumanised environment of the present. The final scenario describes a situation in which “peace breaks out”. How might the reality of a negotiated peaceful settlement ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict impact on the Camp Cities? Part IV – Conclusion In the final part of the dissertation the author draws more general conclusions on the applicability of the CIP methodology to refugee camps beyond the Middle East, arguing that Palestine camps – which are both, the most urbanised, and also the best-funded – should lead the search for innovative approaches to camp urbanisation worldwide. Facing increasing protracted and urbanised camp situations, the UNHCR and other actors of the international refuge regime could benefit from the Palestinian experience. The application of the Palestine model of integrated, community driven urban planning to other camps that have not yet reached the critical levels of congestion could prevent a “disaster in the making”. Furthermore, the CIP model provides lessons which can be useful to non-refugee contexts such as informally developed, congested and impoverished urban settings in the Middle Eastern region and beyond, and help to champion notions such as grass-root participation, community empowerment, and strategic planning. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/volltexte/2009/3949/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/957 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/4983890fd2d3365b825041043121384d.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universität Stuttgart Subject The topic of the resource refugee, urban planning, participation, refugee camp Title A name given to the resource Rehabilitating camp cities : Community-driven planning for urbanised refugee camps Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis