Essays about: "Bottom-up planning"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 64 essays containing the words Bottom-up planning.

  1. 36. An Impossible Profession: How To Plan the Unplanned?

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Jate Bleeker; [2016]
    Keywords : urbanism; urban design; architecture; appropriation; lived space; informality; designer; chaos; order; ideal; reality; urbanity; emotional estrangement; flaneur; top-down; bottom-up; capitalism; modernism; Makoko; Lagos; Nigeria; Rinkeby; Stockholm; Sweden; corner stores; temporality; self-built; small-scale;

    Abstract : A short film about how to design informality in the city. By comparing the chaotic Lagos with the orderly Stockholm the film rethinks the role of the designer and shows that planning as a sphere of building consistently destroys lived space. It illuminates the tension between the orderly and the chaotic, the ideal and reality. . READ MORE

  3. 37. Understanding the Participatory Development approach to Solid Waste Management -A case study of Mnyamatsini, Swaziland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Maria Amosa Diamara Jäppinen; [2016]
    Keywords : Participatory Development; Participation; Community Participation; Solid Waste Management; Semi-Rural; Swaziland; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In the field of development studies, few concepts have gained as much prominence as the Participatory Development (PD) approach, which emphasizes on putting the poor and marginalized groups at the heart of development policy planning practices. Central to the PD approach is bottom-up management of development policymaking and practices, which considers learning, empowerment and local ownership as both a means to an end, and an end in itself. READ MORE

  4. 38. Design for social innovation : a case study of Human Centered Design in Khayelitsha

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Amanda Larsson; Anna Sunnefeldt Nyberg; [2016]
    Keywords : Human Centered Design; community participation; Khayelitsha; Cape Town; social development; participant observation; landscape architecture; urban planning;

    Abstract : During the last decade the world’s urban population has grown extensively and today more than half of the global population lives in cities. Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) is currently the fastest urbanizing region in the world and the change is concentrated to a few metropolitan areas. READ MORE

  5. 39. Municipalities as Enablers of Citizen-led Urban Initiatives : Possibilities and Constraints

    University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

    Author : Rosa Danenberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Bottom-up Urban Development; Urban Governance; Governance Innovation; Social Innovation; Citizen-led Urban Initiatives; Stockholm; Istanbul; Municipal planning; Neighborhood Council;

    Abstract : Municipal bottom-up urban development is growing into an increasingly common urban practice. However, bottom-up urban development differs considerably from conventional top-down planning. The discrepancy forms obstacles for the relationship between top-down and bottom-up actors. READ MORE

  6. 40. Fractal or Scaling Analysis of Natural Cities Extracted from Open Geographic Data Sources

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad

    Author : KUAN-YU HUANG; [2015]
    Keywords : Open geographic data; box counting fractal dimension; head tail breaks classification; lacunarity; natural cities;

    Abstract : A city consists of many elements such as humans, buildings, and roads. The complexity of cities is difficult to measure using Euclidean geometry. In this study, we use fractal geometry (scaling analysis) to measure the complexity of urban areas. We observe urban development from different perspectives using the bottom-up approach. READ MORE