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The Citizenship and Acts of Genocide Against the Cham of Cambodia
The main research object is the Cham minority (Khmer Islam) in the severe conditions of armed conflict in Cambodia (pre-1975) and of genocide in...
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Urban Governance under Neoliberalism: Increasing Centralization or Participatory Decentralization
Urban governance has become the buzzword for urban planning under the present trend of liberalisztion, globalization and privatization. Urban...
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Evaluating social sustainability in Jordanian residential neighborhoods: a combined expert-user approach
Neighborhood sustainability has assumed a pole position as a topic of interest in the past years, addressed through dedicated strands of most of the...
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Place: A Carrier of Social Construction and Cultural Memory
Central to the geography of media is the concept of place, which functions as a conduit for social construction and cultural memory. In the context...
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From The New World to Multiple Possible Worlds: Political Geography, Geopolitics, and Border Studies
Political geographies engage with the relations between space and power, between geography and politics. It is one of the oldest subdiscipline of...
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Art + Design in Community-Based Planning: Interventions for a Broken System
This chapter describes widespread problems in community-based planning that are barriers to social and environmental justice. It presents a series of...
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Participatory process for marine spatial planning: perception of Mar del Plata’s residents on offshore hydrocarbon exploration in the North Argentina Basin (Argentina)
Offshore hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation are activities developed internationally in the advance of the energy industry. Conflicts generated...
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Smart Cities: Missing the Stigmergy?
The concept of “Smart cities” has been criticized for imprecise and inconsistent definitions across disciplines, potential hidden agendas of power...
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Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes on the Biodiversity of River Ravi, Lahore—Pakistan
Growing cities and increasing built-up area represent a significant threat to natural ecosystemsNatural ecosystems with freshwater ecosystems being...
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Green Struggle—Environmental Conflicts Involving Urban Green Areas in Bucharest City
GreenGreen areas represent a vital component of urban settlements improving the environmental quality and offering a great variety of ecosystem...
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Lesson Learned from the Ancient Greek Polis
Historical speaking, cities, and towns have been always identical with the centers of cultural cultivation. Accordingly, the relation of urban...
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Space Production in Times of Neoliberalism
The right to the city is a concept that was first proposed by Henri Lefebvre’sLefebvre book ‘Le Droit à la Ville’ in 1968 and that has been reclaimed...
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Colonial Planning and Design of Parks and Gardens in Singapore
British colonial strategic plans influenced Singapore’s planning policy, and in specific urban green-provision, which followed the British public...
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Perseverance in the Face of Water Scarcity in Hot Summer Seasons: A Case Study of Slum Communities in Indore, India
According to a report by the National Institution forTransforming India (NITI) Aayong report Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, Government of India...
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All the Layers of an Ecological Commitment at the Frontier: Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969
In McHaig biography there are events, relations, and profiles that let us better understand his book Design with Nature: the love for nature...
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Inherent Logic Conflicts Between the Actors of an Industrial Park. The Example of the Siebenlinden Commercial Area Expansion in Rottenburg Am Neckar
This paper analyzes the observed conflicts in the context of the European Interreg AGORA project on industrial estate development in the city of...
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Geographic Regions
In view of the necessity for recognition and assessment of the region and its developments as the best way to smooth out regional inequalities, but...
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Landscape as Strategy for Environmental Multi-functionality
The urban landscape is the result of both public and private choices stratified over the time, which involve material, immaterial, socio-economic,...
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Learning from Selembao: An Alternative Approach to Kinshasa’s Urbanization, Using the Concept of Mboka Bilanga
According to most technicians, the uninterrupted urbanized areas in the outskirts of the city of Kinshasa are systematically categorized as...
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Sha** a City With(out) Canvassing Its Citizens. The Transformation of Parco Bassini in Milan: A Case Study
This contribution focuses on the urban conflictUrban conflict generated from the functional recovery of the former Parco Bassini, a small green...