Malicious siting or unrecognised processes ? A spatio-temporal analysis of environmental conflicts in Tel-Aviv
Conflict ; Environment ; Israel ; Land use ; Nuisance ; Space time ; Urban area ; Urban development
By analyzing the pattern of environmental conflicts in the Tel-Aviv metropolitan region and following the evolution of five of them, it is shown that many conflicts arise fom encroachment of residential development upon facilities originally sited
The meaning of words in urbanconflicts : language, argumentation patterns and local politics in Israel
Conflict ; Israel ; Local authority ; Local government ; Local policy ; Real estate development ; Residential environment ; Urban development ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal
A place for politics in urban theory : the organization and strategies of urban coalitions
Division of labour ; Local economy ; Local policy ; Locality ; Urbanconflict ; Urban policy ; Urban theory
The A. concludes that urban coalitions are necessarily related to changing wider divisions of labor and modes of regulation. The urban political economy recognizes that processes acting at various scales produce unique forms of urban politics
Seeking closure : conflict resolution, land restitution, and the inner city redevelopments in District Six, Cape Town
Cape Province ; Cape Town ; Conflict ; Inner city ; Land ; Redevelopment ; Segregation ; Societal relations ; South Africa ; Urban district ; Urban planning
and the role of state. The current land restitution process is examined and the conflicts it as aroused are assessed. - (AJC)
Ethnicity, corruption and violence in urban land conflict in Kenya
Community ; Conflict ; Corruption ; Cultural studies ; Ethnicity ; Kenya ; Land ; Land market ; Land rights ; Nairobi ; Settlement ; Violence
the character of violence involved. At the same time, they reveal new details of competition for urban land rights. In these cases, land conflict seemed to promote corruption and the use of ethnicity, while corruption and ethnicity were able to alter
the relationship of this conflict to violence. There are findings here regarding sources of urban violence in general.
Iconography and locational conflict from the underside. Free speech, People's Park, and the politics of homelessness in Berkeley, California
California ; Homelessness ; Ideology ; Semiotics of space ; Social conflict ; Social control ; Territoriality ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban landscape ; Urban policy
California ; Economic restructuring ; Housing ; Ideology ; Los Angeles ; Social control ; United States ; Urbanconflict ; Urban growth ; Urban planning ; Urban renewal ; Urban structure
This case study analyzes the opposition to growth controls in Pasadena, by the Chamber of Commerce and black leaders of the City. It delves into the question of who benefits from growth and the type of ideologies that find themselves in conflict
Urbanconflict and social movements in poor countries : theory and evidence of collective action
Conflict ; Employment structure ; Poverty ; State control ; Theory ; Third World ; Urban economy ; Urban policy ; Urban social movement ; Urban society
Contested Landscapes of Urban Sprawl: Landscape Protection and Regional Planning in Scania, Sweden, 1932–1947
Conflict ; Landscape ; Periurban development ; Regional planning authority ; Scania ; Sweden ; Twentieth Century ; Urban planning ; Urban sprawl ; Urbanization ; environmental planning ; peri-urban development ; planning history ; urban fringe
Studies in landscape and planning history are used here in order to critically examine the debate on urban sprawl and to reveal embedded conflicts within spatial planning aiming to curb sprawl. The paper aims to illustrate this with an examination
of one of the earliest attempts to control peri-urban development at a regional level in Sweden. The discourse on sprawl is first introduced and the fruitfulness of landscape studies in capturing inherent and conflicting aims within planning is examined
. The conclusion is that urban sprawl is not necessarily the result of weak or absent planning, but rather of embedded contradictions within planning; therefore stronger planning will never be sufficient as long as the inherent conflicts within the plans
for the development of the plan, as well as the contradictory treatment of urban sprawl (on a local and regional level), is demonstrated. The final part discusses the importance of this historiography for the ability to deal with the current planning situation
, the desintegration of urban society and ecological conflicts. The paper ends by formulating future scenarios. - (AM)
The paper summarizes the different underlying mechanisms which produce mega-city growth (incl. high natural increase of population and rural to urban migration generated by rural overpopulation and deprivation) and the crisis in mega-city governance