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Introduction Doing development work and being reflective is a frustrating and confusing matter. Every decision in the field or in policy circles, or in interaction with academics, can be extremely challenging. If you have been through a rigorous critical education and you still want to do something to improve the material living conditions for people who have not benefited or have been harmed by prevailing development discourses, policies and practices, you are faced with dilemmas. If the desire to make a difference was missing, it would be easy to find an
Ireland is a turbulent place. This book engages readers with the contours of transformation of Irish society through a series of distinct episodes and sites where change can be confronted. The content of the book intersects with the boom and bust themes to explore the economic and social implications of the recession. The processes are as diverse as cross-border development, farming knowledges, food movements, and the evolution of traditional Irish music. The modernisation of Irish society during the Celtic Tiger and its subsequent demise was a 'spatial drama' involving transformation in the material landscape and the imaginative representation of the island. The first part of the book explores the revolving intersections of identity politics with place. It tracks the discovery of the ghost estate and the ways in which it has been implicated in debates about the Irish economic crash, complicating ideas of home and community. After a discussion on immigration, the book discusses the role of migrants in filling labour and skill shortages. The second part pays attention to questions of mobility and consumption in urban and rural contexts. The new Irish motorway network, free time, leisure and holidaying in the lives of lone parents during the Celtic Tiger, and the role of National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) are discussed. The third part explores diverse cultural practices and some longstanding representations of Ireland. An autobiographical tour of the pub session, National Geographic's representations of Irish landscape and the current Irish imagination are the key concepts of this part.
Introduction In this chapter, the development of child-friendly places in the rural areas of South Africa as an essential component in overcoming poverty and inequality is investigated. This has been done by means of literature survey and practical research. The main objectives were to provide a theoretical framework through the literature study
Introduction The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) challenge urban planners, risk professionals, researchers and citizens to extend their focus from accounting for the status of risk towards understanding and acting on the processes that can enable a transition to more risk-sensitive and transformative urban development across all contexts. Risk-sensitive development is required to reduce risk that has accumulated in the city and to better consider risk when planning new developments (Jones and Preston, 2011 ). This
resources, making them available at the same time. These include Schöneberger Südgelände, Park am Gleisdreieck in Berlin, Port Sunlight City wastelands Figure 3.1 Map of Warsaw in Liverpool or the Warsaw Praska Ścieżka Rowerowa [Praga Cycling Route] through the Vistula marshy meadows. Warsaw still has a relatively great number of wastelands as a result of its uneven development following the destruction of the Second World War, industrial collapse, absorption of agricultural lands as well as changes connected with railway infrastructure, etc. Many of these areas have
century. Perhaps the most important and emblematic transformation of the railway arches in Manchester was Atlas Bar, opening in 1993 within an arch space formerly occupied by Atlas Motors, a car mechanic at the corner of Whitworth Street West and Deansgate. The new bar, tellingly, was jointly owned by a group of property developers and architects who were working on the post-industrial transformation of Knott Mill, the area located directly behind it. All of this was related to the work in the 1980s and 1990s of the Central Manchester Development Corporation, a public
, forests and the bedrock in order to increase productivity, trade and competitiveness. The development of the welfare state from the 1940s became a huge leap forward of modernity. The result today is one of the richest and top-ranked countries in, for example, well-being, environment, health and education in the world (OECD). But through these economic and cultural changes the urban
’s failing infrastructure, including projects to dredge and widen waterways and evict residents of informal kampung settlements along them. In April 2014, on a Jakarta visit, then-Dutch infrastructure and environment minister Melanie Schultz announced the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development (NCICD) masterplan. Known as the Giant Sea Wall, it proposes a new city for 1
Introduction In Denmark, as in many countries, rural areas face the challenges of a decreasing and ageing population, lack of access to public and private services, decay of the built environment and below-average socio-economic development. Balanced urban–rural development is a major societal concern, and place-based, participatory local projects
‘Northern Quarter’ and Ancoats locales, the initials snappily indicate its geographical location: NOrth of MAnchester city centre. For all its blandness, NOMA belies a more interesting identity, and one that is far more important to the history of the city and its social, cultural, political and architectural development than just a series of initials. In fact, the area could more accurately be branded the ‘Co-operative Quarter’, largely comprising the former estate of the Co-operative Group, the largest co-operative society in the UK, a major local employer, and an