Planning a Future for Phnom Penh: Mega Projects, Aid Dependence and Disjointed Governance

Urban Studies ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (13) ◽  
pp. 2889-2912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem Paling
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
International Finance ◽  
Phnom Penh ◽  
The Past ◽  
Linking Elements ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Planning And Development ◽  
International Donors ◽  
Capital Development

This paper presents an analysis of the growth and diversification of international involvement in urban planning and development in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Over the past decade, a multiplicity of mainly intra-Asian connections have emerged alongside the continued involvement of Western donor aid. The paper shows how various forms of international finance capital, development capital and local capital vie for influence amongst a loose assemblage of alliances and conflicts linking elements of the Cambodian government, international donors and Cambodian and intra-Asian private-sector actors. The paper highlights the on-going efforts of government–private-sector alliances to ‘world’ Phnom Penh and to assert a greater claim to its significance in the world. These desires are seen to have overridden plans produced in partnership with the development sector. Attention is drawn to the intra-Asian mobilities through which these processes operate and which, in doing so, contribute to the on-going unsettling of existing geographies of urban knowledge.

Urban Growth Management: Approaches, Experiences and Implications to China’s Urban Planning

2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 6725-6728
Author(s):  
Zhen Long Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Urban Growth Management ◽  
Made In

Chinese cities expanded and developed at an astounding rate of growth during the past three decades. The consequence rise in exorbitant consumption of land resources and the impacts on the environment were recognized accordantly. Urban growth management, as one of the effective approaches to solve the problems caused by urban sprawl, has become a subject for broad discussion in the field of urban planning in the world. It is necessary to shape a union framework of growth management between national and local government. And it is recognized that these urban growth management decisions must be made in a more comprehensive and consistent intergovernmental manner. The purpose of this study is to contribute to current planning thought and practice by providing some insights into how urban growth management can be utilized to contribute to a more sustainable urban future in China.

The travelling business of sustainable urbanism: International consultants as norm-setters

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 1779-1796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rapoport ◽  
Anna Hult
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Sustainable Urbanism ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

This article examines the international travels of ideas about sustainable urban planning and design through a focus on private sector architecture, planning and engineering consultants. These consultants, who we refer to as the global intelligence corps (GIC), package up their expertise in urban sustainability as a marketable commodity, and apply it on projects around the world. In doing so, the global intelligence corps shape norms about what constitutes ‘good’ sustainable urban planning, and contribute to the development of an internationalised travelling model of sustainable urbanism. This article draws on a broad study of the industry (GIC) in sustainable urban planning and design, and two in-depth case studies of Swedish global intelligence corps firms working on Chinese Eco-city projects. Analysis of this material illustrates how the global intelligence corps’s work shapes a traveling model of sustainable urbanism, and how this in turn creates and reinforces particular norms in urban planning practice.

scholarly journals Urban development of Pyongiang under the influence of Juche idea

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-141
Author(s):  
Zorica Pogrmic ◽  
Bojan Djercan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
Kim Il Sung ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Korean Architecture

In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), urban planning and urban architecture reflect the interest of the working class. The goal for the working class was to develop a specific type of urban planning, as a result of which the DPRK introduced a socialist model of urban planning. Until the beginning of 1970, the DPRK depended on the influence of the USSR, it wanted to go beyond that framework, especially in the field of urban planning and architecture. In the early 1970s, Kim Il-sung presented the thesis of Juche's idea, which encompasses all aspects of society. During the 1980s, Pyongyang was promoted to the world as the socialist capital of the world. However, in the 21st century, Korean architecture has noticed many changes compared to the past. In addition to remaining faithful to rationality and monumentality, social differences were given to special groups. Since the arrival and rise of Kim Jong-un to power, the newly built parts of Pyongyang are reminiscent of the physiognomy of capitalist cities.

Knowledge Management for Development (KM4D)

2019 ◽  
pp. 392-401
Author(s):  
Alexander G. Flor
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
International Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Management Program ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Agencies

Knowledge management began in the private sector but has since been adopted by governments and international development agencies alike. In the mid-nineties, Stephen Denning established the Knowledge Management Program of the World Bank, which has served as the model for applying KM to international development assistance or KM4D. This chapter differentiates corporate KM from KM4D. It presents a typology and enumerates KM4D sectors and themes used by the international development assistance community in the past two and a half decades.

The Oldest Daughter of Overseas France

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Richard Price
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Penal Colony ◽  
The Past ◽  
Population Explosion ◽  
The World

This chapter constitutes a summative perspective on contemporary Guyane. It opens with a birds-eye view of the place in all its diversity. Beginning with its ongoing population explosion, it moves on to consider its multilingualism and multi-ethnicity, before contrasting Guyane to its tamer sister-neocolonies of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Following this, it quotes and offers pithy commentary on passages from various visitors to Guyane during the past hundred years or so, all of whom comment on its particular colonial flavour. Léon-Gontran Damas posited that bureaucrats were nowhere so dominant as here, and the chapter asserts that Guyane remains a highly segregated and highly stratified society, in terms of class, of ethnic communities, and at least until recently, of urban planning. The study begins in Cayenne before leading on to a tour of the artificial city of Kourou and its space centre, then undertaking a visit to St. Laurent-du-Maroni, once home to the penal colony and now the largest Maroon city in the world. It ends with an overview of the territory far up the Maroni where Aluku Maroon society has been recently overwhelmed by a combination of francisation and illegal goldmining by Brazilians and Alukus.

scholarly journals Emerging trends: Artificial Intelligence, China and my new job at Baidu

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 641-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENNETH WARD CHURCH
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
The World

AbstractIt is amazing that I have written for more than a year on Emerging Trends without mentioning China’s investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Now that I have moved to Baidu, I would like to take this opportunity to share some of my personal observations with what’s happening in China over the past 25 years. The top universities in China have always been very good, but they are better today than they were 25 years ago, and they are on a trajectory to become the biggest and the best in the world. China is investing big time in what we do, both in the private sector and the public sector. Kai-Fu Lee is bullish on his investments in AI and China. There is a bold government plan for AI with specific milestones for parity with the West in 2020, major breakthroughs by 2025 and the envy of the world by 2030.

Liberalization by Omission: Argentina After the War

1982 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-396
Author(s):  
Torcuato S. di Tella
Keyword(s):  
International Finance ◽  
Political System ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Version ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The Mind

THE MALVINAS WAR HAS BEEN FOR ARGENTINA WHAT CYPRUS was for the Greek colonels. Unfortunately we lack a Karamanlis, and the Junta regime has lost the six years it has been in office without developing a political project of its own. In this sense, our situation is very different from that of Brazil, where the ruling military have had time to ‘open up’ the political system gradually.To understand the mind of the Argentine armed forces one has to realize that they felt disappointed by the Martinez de Hoz administration (1976–81). Actually, this is putting it mildly. They felt betrayed: it is as though the Argentine economy had been bombed for the past six years. A familiar experience? Possibly, but unlike some European countries, we lack the institutional mechanisms. Besides, the Argentine military felt that while they did their part in stopping the guerrillas, the specialists they put in charge of economic matters did not do their job. The team of economists, headed by José Martínez de Hoz, was a local version of ‘Chicago boys’, backed by international finance and its world economic pundits. A contorted version of ‘liberalism’ invaded our beaches, giving us nineternth-century laissez faire plus a foolish overvaluation of the peso which made Buenos Aires the costliest city in the world, and rendered competition against imports impossible. Quite a few people thought this was necessary because, as the widely displayed sticker on our cars has it, ‘to reduce the state is to strengthen the nation’. The idea is that Argentina would finally be a real part of the Western Christian world and, inspired by European and North American examples, would throw away protectionism and all its trappings, never to look at it again.

scholarly journals GENERATIVE CREATING OF SACRAL SPACE:LATVIAN ANCIENT AND CONTEMPORARY PLACES OF WORSHIP

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 612-625
Author(s):  
Silvija Ozola
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
New Town ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Town ◽  
Main Streets

The Balts received God’s counsel and energy and regained health in energetically strong places but the Latvian worldview formed on the thousands of years was encoded in the Lielvārde belt, which is Latvian womenfolk costume’s element. Bishop (1199–1229) Albert founded the town of Riga for the Riga Bishopric centre on the right bank of the Daugava.It was the four-part Riga Old Town semicircledivided by two main streets as the cross.Soon after the Great Fire in 1214, the construction ofthe Riga Cathedralbegan tocreate sacral urban space in areasof the Old Town and the New Town of Riga (in nova civitate Rige).Now, eastwards of Lielvārde, landscape artist Shunmyō Masuno from Japan has visualized the Garden of Destiny, where people obtainsolace to the past, strength to the present and inspiration to follow dreams in the future. Through this set of relationships, architecture maintains the cosmological connection and dialogue with all the scales of the World. Research object: Latvian places for the worship of God.Research goal: analysis of Latvian urban sacral space. Research problem: common and different features of the sacral space of the Latvians and other nations have been little studied. Research novelty: detailed studies of generative design of sacral spaces and contemporary places of worship in Latvia. Research methods: analysis of archive documents, cartographic and urban planning materials, a study of published literature and inspection of sacral places in nature.

A basic introduction to image processing using NIH-Image as a model

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
John Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Digital Instrument ◽  
Novice User ◽  
Nih Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Instrument Control

Advances in camera technology and digital instrument control have meant that in modern microscopy, the image that was, in the past, typically recorded on a piece of film is now recorded directly into a computer. The transfer of the analog image seen in the microscope to the digitized picture in the computer does not mean, however, that the problems associated with recording images, analyzing them, and preparing them for publication, have all miraculously been solved. The steps involved in the recording an image to film remain largely intact in the digital world. The image is recorded, prepared for measurement in some way, analyzed, and then prepared for presentation.Digital image acquisition schemes are largely the realm of the microscope manufacturers, however, there are also a multitude of “homemade” acquisition systems in microscope laboratories around the world. It is not the mission of this tutorial to deal with the various acquisition systems, but rather to introduce the novice user to rudimentary image processing and measurement.

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