Networks, interfaces, and computer-generated images: learning from digital visualisations of urban redevelopment projects
Computing ; Human body ; Network ; Object ; Project ; Qatar ; Real estate development
This article examines networks, interfaces, and computer-generated images (CGIS) through learning from digital visual-isations of urban redevelopment projects in Doha, Qatar. It uses an actor-network theory understanding of ‘network’ and argue
Squaring the Circle: How Mercator Constructed His Projection in 1569
Histoire de la cartographie ; MERCATOR (G.) ; Projection cartographique ; Siècle 16 ; Technique cartographique
Cartographic technique ; Gerard Mercator ; History of cartography ; Map projection ; Mercator projection ; Mercator world map (1569) ; Pedro Nunes ; Sixteenth Century ; cartometric analysis of old maps ; table of rhumbs
La quadrature du cercle: comment Mercator construisit sa projection en 1569Cette étude se propose d’évaluer la précision de la projection cartographique introduite par Mercator dans sa carte du monde de 1569, afin de déterminer sa méthode de
signature’ de la carte, a été ensuite comparée avec les erreurs associées aux différentes méthodes que Mercator aurait pu avoir utilisées pour calculer la projection. Une nouvelle méthode de construction, qui n’a pas été prise en compte jusqu’à présent
que toute autre méthode.#In this study we assess the accuracy of the cartographic projection introduced by Mercator in his world map of 1569 aiming to identify its construction method. An error distribution of the latitude scale in the Organum
associated with various methods that Mercator might have used to calculate the projection. A new construction method not hitherto considered in the literature, based on the use of a table of rhumbs, is proposed and tested. The method is intuitive, simple
Public taps and private connections : the production of caste distinction and common sense in a Rajasthan drinking water supply project
This article examines public taps and private connections through the production of caste distinction and common sense in a Rajasthan drinking water supply project. To do so, it brings together geographic research on neoliberal water governance
and caste processes in modern rural India to illuminate how neoliberal subjectivities deepened in the post-project phase. It shows the ways that caste norms, village water governance and state power converged to produce ‘new’ ways of thinking about water
access and payment that undermined the social goals and the physical infrastructure of the project.
This paper examines the work of regularizing (titling) land in the context of a World-Bank-funded market-assisted land reform project in northern Guatemala. Specifically, the focus is on the meaning-making work of field technicians who seek
to convince campesinos (peasants) to participate in this regularization project. In their recruiting efforts, these technicians creatively link neoliberal slogans, human rights narratives, and exclusionary visions of nation, race, and property. By examining
Projections of heat waves with high impact on human health in Europe
Les projections réalisées pour les années 2075-2094 suggèrent une extension vers le Nord, ainsi qu'une triple augmentation de fréquence (jusqu'à 40 jours/an), d'intensité (4 à 7°C supplémentaires pour les jours les plus chauds) et de durée
projects but also of anxieties about governance and rule; to see their inhabitants not only as abject recipients of aid, but also as individuals who make decisions and choices in complex conditions. They conclude that while the outcome of projects within
such spaces is often unpredictable, the assumptions that undergird such projects create regular cycles of implementation and failure.
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 ; Detroit city ; Living conditions ; Local population ; Marginality ; Michigan ; Neighbourhood ; Project ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Urban policy
This article examines marginality and urban agriculture in Detroit. This area is the projected site of an urban agriculture (UA) project, which proposes to utilise vacant land and economically marginalized residents to produce marketable products
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.