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  • A Collaborative Planning Framework to Support Sustainable Development: The Case of Municipal Housing in Guatemala City

    • 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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  • Knowledge Co-Production and Social Learning on Environmental Health Issues: A Role for Interactive GIS-Based Approaches

    • 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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  • Children’s Perception of Their City Centre: A Qualitative GIS Methodological Investigation in a Dutch City

    • Authors: AlArasi, H.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: Martinez, J.; Amer, S. (2018)

  • This chapter presents a participatory qualitative approach for capturing children’s perceptions of their local living environment in a geographic information system (GIS). We demonstrate this quali-tative approach (qGIS) with a case study in the city of Enschede, the Netherlands. This study is the result of close collaboration between us and teachers of the local international school in Enschede. The international school was selected to ensure ease of communication, since the research needed to be conducted in English. In particular, we focused on how children perceive the city centre of Enschede. Our motivation in choosing the city centre was twofold. First, it would be a location familiar to all the children participating in the research. Second, the city centre ha...
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  • An Exploration of Environmental Quality in the Context of Multiple Deprivations: The Case of Kalyan–Dombivli, India

    • Authors: Mishra, S.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: Kuffer, M.; Martinez, J.; Pfeffer, K. (2018)

  • The asset vulnerability framework of Moser (Baud et al., 2009; Moser, 1998), focusing on assets that the poor possess, has built upon this new understanding of urban poverty. These assets exist in the form of physical, human, social, financial and natural capital. Drawing on this understanding and framework, a study by Baud et al. (2009) demonstrated the utility of an index of multiple deprivations to conceptualise the ‘multi-dimensional character’ of poverty for Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai in India. Despite this informed and integrated view, the natural dimension, which in urban areas translates mainly into environmental quality, often gets neglected in urban studies on multiple deprivations (Baud et al., 2009; Niggebrugge et al., 2005) because of limited environmenta...
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  • GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: A Global Perspective

    • 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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  • Role of Public Spaces in Promoting Social Interaction in Divided Cities:: The Case of Nicosia, Cyprus

    • Authors: Kukoleca, M.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: Madureira, A. M.; Martinez, J. (2018)

  • Researchers have long been interested in divided cities and on the effect this has had on public spaces within those cities, particularly focusing on political or historical aspects of the division (Till et al., 2013; Öngül, 2012). Others stress the importance of public spaces as binding mechanisms in divided cities, analysing the physical aspects and the ways in which people use the space (Nagle, 2009). In locations where a physical barrier that divides the city sends a clear message of exclu-sion, public spaces contest this notion by presenting a shared space where everyone is welcome. Gaffikin et al. (2010) analyse the concept of public spaces in divided cities from the perspective of urban design and the role those spaces play in that context, conc...
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  • The Street as a Binding Factor : Measuring the Quality of Streets as Public Space within a Fragmenting City: The Case of Msasani Bonde la Mpunga, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    • Authors: Dayo-Babatunde, B.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: Martinez, J.; Kuffer, M.; Kyessi, A. G. (2018)

  • With this study we aim to measure the quality of streets as public spaces between various urban fragments – planned, gated and unplanned neighbourhoods – in a fragmented settlement located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In contrast with the UN-Habitat (2013) study, in which only quantitative indicators were measured, our study measures the quality of streets by combining both quantitative (objective) indicators of street connectivity and qualitative (subjective) indicators based on residents’ perceptions. Results of this study are relevant for local planning authorities and policy-makers in areas of policy intervention and can contribute to filling the knowledge gap in the literature on African cities and their streets as binding factors.
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