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Authors: Prieto Leon, L. M.; Advisor: -; Participants: Flacke, J.; Aguero-valverde, J.; Van Maarseveen, M. F. A. M. (2018) - Providing all children equal access to essential services, such as primary education, has been set as a priority in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)’ agenda during the last two decades. Yet the Global Education Monitoring report in 2016 reveals that wide disparities between the rich and the poor persist in access to education of high quality. This study uses the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) to examine the equality of opportunity in access to basic education of high quality. By using enrollment and admission data from a case study in a large school district in the US in 2015/2016, this research evaluates the capacity of the HOI, in order to reveal disparities in access to school opportunities and examines how much of this inequality is explained by families’ pre-determined ci...
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Authors: Onyimbi, J.; Advisor: -; Participants: Koeva, M. N.; Flacke, J. (2018) - Public participation is significant for the success of any urban planning project. However, most members of the general public are not planning professionals and may not understand the technical details of a 2D paper-based plan, which might hamper their participation. One way to expand the participation of citizens is to present plans in well-designed, user-friendly and interactive platforms that allow participation regardless of the technical skills of the participants. This paper investigates the impacts of the combined use of 3D visualization and e-participation on public participation in Kisumu, Kenya. A 3D city model, created with CityEngine2016, was exported into a web-based geoportal and used as a Planning Support System in two stakeholder workshops in order to evaluate its u...
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Authors: Morales, J.; Advisor: -; Participants: Flacke, J.; Martinez, J. (2018) - Our research aim was to investigate how potential sites for municipal housing projects could be evaluated using a collaborative planning framework. In particular, the case of Guatemala City and its MEHUD housing projects were studied. Within this research context, there were three specific research objectives: (1) to identify a process and methodology for supporting the collaborative planning of municipal housing projects; (2) to explore the perspectives for participation of potential stakeholders in housing development and collaborative planning; and (3) to implement the collaborative planning framework developed by identifying and assessing potential sites for municipal housing projects.
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Authors: Shrestha, R.; Advisor: -; Participants: Flacke, J.; Martinez, J.; van Maarseveen, M. (2018) - This chapter describes two approaches we have developed for engaging stakeholders in the pro-cess of knowledge co-production and social learning related to environmental health issues. One of the approaches is called the Interactive Spatial Understanding Support System (ISUSS) that aims at supporting stakeholder dialogue during a problem understanding phase in a planning process. The other approach is called the Interactive Cumulative Burdens Assessment (Interactive-CuBA) that aims at facili-tating stakeholder dialogue in assessing cumulative burdens due to exposure to number of environmental factors in the neighbourhood. Both approaches integrate interactive GIS-based support systems that are implemented in MapTable. These approaches have bee...
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Authors: Shrestha, R.; Advisor: -; Participants: Zuidgeest, M.; Flacke, J. (2018) - Climate change is a global issue that needs to be addressed by both developed and developing countries. Nevertheless, it is being ignored in many developing countries because of their urgent need to give preference to development activities (Halsnæs and Verhagen, 2007). In addressing this dilemma, the notion of low-carbon development (LCD) has emerged from the discourse on climate change (Tilburg et al., 2011). Definitions of LCD commonly mention reducing CO2 emis-sions, intensive use of low-carbon energy sources and ensuring economic growth by reconciling national mitigation priorities with national development needs (Tilburg et al., 2011; Yuan et al., 2011). One key mitigation strategy is to lower their carbon footprint in cities and make them more sustainable.
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Authors: van Maarseveen, M.; Advisor: -; Participants: Martinez, J.; Flacke, J. (2018) - Although this figure needs to be interpreted with caution due to inconsistencies in definitions and data availability, it emphasizes the urgent need to pay serious attention to this trend and to consider the positive and negative social, economic and environmental consequences carefully. Urbanization fosters economic growth and is generally associated with greater productivity and a better quality of life for all. Nevertheless, urbanization also often brings with it urban sprawl, environmental degradation, poor living conditions and severe problems of accessibility.
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Authors: Singh, Y.J.; Advisor: -; Participants: Flacke, J.; Zuidgeest, M.; van Maarseveen, M. (2018) - In this chapter we develop a TOD index to facilitate planning for transit-oriented development, elaborate our methodology and discuss its application in a case study. We argue that planning for TOD must not be restricted to just making any development more transit-oriented: it should also include providing transit in places where development has already been highly transit-oriented, yet access to transit is still lacking.
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Authors: Zandieh, R.; Advisor: -; Participants: Flacke, J.; Martinez, J. A.; van Maarseveen, M. F. A. M. (2018) - The research we describe in this chapter had two aims: (1) to illustrate the capacity of GIS for generating objective measures of macro built-environment attributes; and (2) to use GIS-measured macro built-environment attributes, together with perceived micro built-environment attributes, to examine correlations among and between neighbourhood built-environment attributes in order to better understand how to increase positive (or to decrease negative) influences of neighbourhood built-environment attributes on outdoor walking levels.
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Authors: Perez Molina, E.; Advisor: -; Participants: Sliuzas, R. V.; Flacke, J. (2018) - The case study reported in this chapter approaches this question by adopting a geo-computational approach: it details the use of existing urban growth (Pérez-Molina et al., 2017) and flood models (Sliuzas et al., 2013a) of Kampala (Uganda) for designing future urban growth scenarios and testing their flooding impact. Specifically, the scenarios seek to reproduce and operationalise building densification options available for inclusion in the Kampala Physical Development Plan (KPDP), commissioned by the Kampala Capital City Authority in 2012 (ROM Transport et al., 2012). With this in mind, our research aims were to: (1) identify building densification options proposed in the KPDP; (2) formalise these options within the existing urban growth mode...
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Authors: Nikuze, A.; Advisor: -; Participants: Sliuzas, R. V.; Flacke, J. (2018) - Our aim was to develop a methodology for resettlement-site selection that would help restore the livelihoods of affected urban communities and reduce the risks of impov-erishment that are often associated with resettlement. We carried out our research in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. There, the combination of steep terrain, poor drainage, large areas of wetlands, high-density informal settlements (with buildings constructed with non-durable materials) and heavy seasonal rainfall exacerbate the risk of disaster. Every year during the rainy seasons, water-related disasters cause loss of lives and damage to property. In line with its risk prevention and reduction policy, the Rwanda government has started to relocate the most vulnera...
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