This article analyses the power dynamics associated with accessing and generating information in Nairobi, Kenya. This project has the following lessons : 1) Simply developing data does not make them open; how “open access” is provided to the data
is just as important as making them freely available. (2) Developing data can show commitment to a particular place or project that can help generate support for stronger partnerships and project goals. (3) Openly sharing data about place might help push
those with access to information to share information as well. Overall this research project illustrates that sharing data can help support a more open access ecosystem locally by establishing a culture of data sharing but only if those interested
Architecture ; France ; Ile-de-France ; Neo liberalism ; Paris ; Perception of the urban environment ; Planning project ; Territorial planning ; Urban planning ; Urbanism ; Urbanization
This article examines the architectural exhibition associated with the large-scale Grand Paris urban development project and argues that imaginative representation crucial to urban transformation, here acting to justify and naturalize neoliberal
, that firms willing to undertake investments in innovative equipment and machinery present lower costs and a higher life cycle of the projects to be financed. Third, that for those willing to investin RandD projects or show a high technological profile
El Salvador ; Emotion ; Empowerment ; Neighbourhood ; Participation ; Project ; Social change ; Social geography ; Urban area ; Violence ; Young people
This article examines the role of critical analysis and emotions in participatory approaches to em-powerment and change. It analyses a local youth participation project (PAR) in Mejicanos, a poor and violent neighborhood in El Salvador, aiming
This article examines performativity and the unsettling of geopolitical frames through artworks. Beginning with her book project, ‘All the world's fighter planes’ (2004) and moving through the British artist Fiona Banner’s Duveens project
China ; Ecology ; Land rights ; Land use ; Political ecology ; Project ; Right to the city ; Settlement ; Sustainable development ; Urbanism
will not benefit those who will be most impacted by climate change: the citizens of the world's least wealthy states. Second, it investigates the foun-dation of eco-city projects on notions of crisis and scarcity. Third, it interrogates the mechanisms through which
spaces and lives of the temporary settlements housing the millions of workers who move from one new project to another.
Community ; Food ; Garden ; Louisiana ; New Orleans ; Project ; Social geography ; Social justice ; United States of America
The study examines the ways in which various gardening projects in New Orleans exhibit different levels and scopes of political engagement, with a particular focus on how they manifest (sometimes in contradictory ways) in the projects’ missions
This article examines the new spaces for nature through the re-territorialisation of biodiversity conservation under neoliberalism in the UK. It explains that a series of projects developed by non-governmental conservation organisations seek
reformed and extended and discuss evidence on the growth of large-scale biodiversity conservation projects in the UK. It then considers the implications of these changes in the light of the neoliberalisation of conservation.
Carbon ; Community ; Environment ; Financing ; Project ; Scotland ; Social geography ; United Kingdom
into empirical work situated at all levels of the CCF's funding chain. It then teases out how the assumptions around – and the need to demonstrate – community help determine the projects selected, and subsequently the vision of community chosen, enacted
In many instances nature conservation projects require input from and collaboration with communities that live near or in ecosensitive regions. The ability of communities to be collaborative varies and often requires capacity development for full
participation in conservation planning and management. Such capacity development can be expensive, and where sufficient resources are not available the success of conservation projects can be limited. Through a case study of the Brier Island Nature Preserve
China ; Economic development ; Economic geography ; Geopolitics ; Industrial development ; International relations ; North Korea ; Political geography ; Project ; Security ; Territorial strategy ; Trans-border cooperation
, this paper examines three territorial features: China’s geopolitical visions, regional development projects, and the scalar politics of its North Korea policy. The central finding is that China’s North Korea strategy cannot be reduced to any single dimension
This paper analyzes the determinants of the location of a host multinational RandD projects in NUTS-1 regions of EU-15 countries during the period 2003–08. It finds that the probability of RandD projects being located in a host region is positively
influencing factors are analysed, in particular the several ecological restoration projects. The increased vegetation coverage is mainly attributed to the warm-wet climate change and the implementation of the ecological protection project.