scholarly journals Urban Imbalance and Non-inclusive Development in Mexico: The Case of its Top 15 Major Urban Municipalities

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Octavio Luis-Pineda
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Capacity ◽  
Economic Strategy ◽  
Basic Premise

Under the basic premise that an economy and its territory as a socioeconomic entity, are inscribed into a nation’s space. Accordingly, the concomitant sustainable handling of its natural resources and people ́s well-being depends on myriad factors among which stands out firstly, the country's own socioeconomic dynamics and secondly, but not least important, the political capacity of the State ́s intervention into the economy, as the foremost legal entity capable to advance the nation ́s economic strategy, to simultaneously foment growth and social well-being into the nation. Upon this premise, the article aims at analyzing the socioeconomic implications and multiple externalities derived from the neoliberal economic strategy implemented by Mexico in the last decades, with particular reference to the country ́s current urban imbalances around the country ́s top 15 municipalities including Mexico City to demonstrate its failure and the compelling need to reorient it towards a more balanced, social-inclusive and sustainable urban development. Time ́s horizon for this analysis ranges from 1980-2018.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPITAL CITY THROUGH THE PRISM OF INCLUSIVENESS (A CASE OF KYIV)

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Eu.O. Maruniak ◽  
◽  
S.A. Lisovskyi ◽  
S.A. Pokliatskyi ◽  
A.A. Mozghovyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Economic Landscape

The problem of inclusive development has recently taken into account in Ukraine, although at the global level and in the EU such discussions have been going on for a long time, as well as key concepts were included in the documents shaping the international policy agenda. The paper aims to identify local markers of inclusion and/or exclusion within the capital post-socialist city, verify participatory approaches within the context of sustainable urban development research, and create a basis for developing recommendations for further improvement of urban policy in Ukraine. The example of the capital, Kyiv, a city that has been integrated into the global economic landscape for several decades, is the most indicative from the point of view of current and anticipated changes. The article outlines the main features of modern discourse in the field of inclusiveness and integrated urban development. On the case of Kyiv and a few urban neighborhoods, based on a survey and expert assessment, local features of the spatial measurement of inclusiveness, such as accessibility and openness of different types of infrastructural objects, organization of urban space, have been analyzed. The surveys, in addition to positive assessments of the availability of urban infrastructure for residents, and high quality of construction of individual facilities, simultaneously have been revealed significant shortcomings, especially for people with disabilities. The role of urban governance and international projects outcomes to achieve new goals of urban environment quality in Ukraine has been emphasized. The scientific novelty of the article is to identify local signs of inclusiveness and exclusivity in the capital city of a post-socialist country in the context of improving urban policy in Ukraine.

scholarly journals Adapting to the political moment and diverse terrain of 'Actually Existing Municipalisms'

Soundings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (74) ◽  
pp. 40-53
Author(s):  
Andrew Cumbers ◽  
Franziska Paul
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Economic Strategy ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
The Uk

This article engages constructively with the 'new municipalism', while cautioning against imposing another set of top-down elite imperatives on 'left behind places'. It also points out that local does not necessarily mean progressive, citing the example of Tees Valley's Conservative mayor Ben Houchen. As an alternative, it draws upon positive experiences from the recent global remunicipalisation trend, and highlights the importance of working with 'actually existing' municipalisms on the ground, focusing in particular on Germany, where there remains a strong public ethos, and commitment to öffentliche Daseinsvorsorge - 'public (well-)being provision'. It takes Darmstadt as a specific example, and looks at its city economic strategy - Stadtwirtschaftsstrategie. It concludes that productive coalitions and new alliances for a renewed left municipalism can be built through working with continuing, new and diverse forms of municipal values and cultures, both within the UK and internationally.

The Salience of Local Urban Development in the Political Party Arena: A Longitudinal Analysis of Slovenian Parliamentary Party Programmes

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 615-638
Author(s):  
Matjaž Uršič ◽  
Alem Maksuti ◽  
Tomaž Deželan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Election Manifestos ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
Technical Measures

Local urban development is not determined by a collection of non-political and essentially technical measures prepared by professionals and civil servants in municipalities, but in fact strongly depends on the political nature of policy decisions and organised local interests. The planning of local urban development is, therefore, significantly influenced by political decisions based on the promises set out by political parties in their programmes. Thus, the direction of local development and the dynamics of urban growth cannot be fully understood without a thorough understanding of the views presented in party programmes. This paper aims to map the differences in Slovenian parliamentary party preferences related to local urban development across the political spectrum as well as over time (from 1990 to 2014). By implementing computer-assisted content analysis of 96 party programmes and election manifestos conventionally recognised as thematic text analysis, we identified an alarming image of the political landscape of Slovenia concerning topics related to local urban development. The analysis revealed that the majority of parties utilise local urban development concepts on a declarative level, with most dimensions of sustainable urban development being virtually absent.

scholarly journals Generating the New Dimensions of Social Sustainability into Sustainable Urban Development Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Lydia Aulia Kumara ◽  
Dyah Mutiarin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
New Model ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Mapping Review ◽  
Urban Development Policy

This paper contributes to the debates on how policy makers face the dilemma on sustainable urban development policies, by addressing social sustainability dimensions. Therefore, it aims to generate out the new dimensions of social sustainability into policy for sustainable urban development. The comprehension gives an insight that favor multi-disciplinary themes, in which it may support national political agenda, particularly in the realms of urban development. Hereby, the research methodology is mapping review; which is held by classifying a new model of social sustainability dimensions. This alternative was proposed to undertake more pressing urgencies in sustainable urban development. Moreover, the study is expected to overcome the ambiguous and complicated elements or key features in determining social sustainability. In general, an implication for urban society is that the new model of social sustainability can be directed to better improve the urban societal development, based on the state of well-being and humane principals.

scholarly journals The Quest for an Adequate Test: Justifying the Sustainable City as an Order of Worth

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4670
Author(s):  
Meg Holden
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
New Order ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Adequate Test ◽  
Pragmatic Sociology

The sustainable city represents an ideal of good and just living that has inspired urban development work for at least 25 years. While criticized by many for its scientific, social and political vagueness, the concept of the sustainable city has nonetheless continued to frame material and political efforts in urban redevelopment. From a perspective grounded in the pragmatic sociology of critique, this article takes this phenomenon as evidence of an international movement to generate not just political pronouncements or technical fixes, but a new order of worth, from the concept of the sustainable city. After presenting the pragmatic sociology of critique and the application of this body of social research as it pertains to better understanding sustainable urban development, we reflect on the factors that challenge the acceptance of the sustainable city as an order of worth, or as a mode and manner of justifying significant decisions in the public domain, recognizable and understandable to a majority. For efforts to create the sustainable city to justify themselves, socioculturally, in this way, the work demands a clear test of worthiness. This article illustrates the search for an adequate test through a review of two distinct efforts to generate new systems of assessment for sustainable building projects, and points out the contrasting nature of these two tests: one which aims to be accessible to thoroughgoing public debate fit to transform a context toward a political discourse of urban sustainability as well-being; the other that interprets the need for a test as affirmation of expertise related to the unfolding climate emergency.

NREGA’s Impact on the Material Well-Being and Political Capacity of Poor People

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Jenkins ◽  
James Manor
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Political Capacity ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Material Benefits ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
Severe Shortage

This chapter assesses the positive political impacts of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (NREGA) on poor and marginalized people. Two types of impacts are distinguished: those stemming primarily from the material benefits derived by NREGA workers (increased incomes, less dependence on elites), and those that contribute to their “political capacity”, the severe shortage of which has constituted an important dimension of their “poverty”.The authors define political capacity as an amalgam of political awareness, confidence, skills and connections. To advance these claims, the chapter discusses the uses to which laborers put their wages, NREGA's impact on distress migration by poor people, the gains made by women, examples of unusual alliances through participation in NREGA works, and the political implications of all of these processes.

scholarly journals Procesos urbanos y sistemas socioecológicos. Trayectorias sustentables de la agricultura de chinampa en Ciudad de México/ Urban Processes and Socioecological Agricultural Systems. Sustainable Trajectories of Chinampa Agriculture in Mexico City

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-189
Author(s):  
Pablo Alberto Torres Lima ◽  
Juan G. Cruz-Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Socioecological Systems ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Methodological Guidelines

El artículo analiza los ámbitos del desarrollo urbano y las perspectivas humano-ambientales en el marco de las relaciones entre los procesos urbanos y los sistemas socioecológicos. A partir de identificar algunas tendencias de los procesos de urbanización en América Latina y conforme a guías conceptuales y metodológicas para la generación de conocimiento interdisciplinario, se discuten las rutas temáticas de dos agendas multilaterales (HÁBITAT III y SIPAM) hacia el desarrollo urbano ambientalmente sustentable y resiliente, en particular en el contexto de los principios socioecológicos de la agricultura de chinampas en la Ciudad de México, incluyendo algunas directrices para su consolidación.   Abstract The article analyses the fields of urban development and human-environment perspectives in the framework of urban processes and socioecological systems relationships. From identifying some trends of urbanization processes in Latin America and according to conceptual and methodological guidelines for the generation of interdisciplinary knowledge, the thematic routes of two multilateral agendas (HÁBITAT III y GIAHS) for environmentally sustainable urban development and resilience are discussed, particularly in the context of the socioecological principles of chinampas agriculture in Mexico City, including some guidelines for its consolidation.

scholarly journals Waterfront Development Concepts in Indonesia from the Perspective of Urban Planning and Environmental Sustainability

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariva Sugandi Permana ◽  
Winny Astuti ◽  
Erianto Er
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Waterfront Development ◽  
Development Concept ◽  
Riverfront Development

Rivers, lakes, beaches or other public water bodies have substantial and precious environmental values, and if properly managed, they can be a tremendous element towards a sustainable city. Within the context of urban planning and environmental sustainability, the harmonious balance between built and natural environment could not be avoided. The riverfront development concepts attempt to accomplish this balance by developing the necessary built environment while keeping the natural environment intact and provides ecological service. Since the concept of riverfront development is new to Indonesia or to most cities in Indonesia, it would be a good initiative to promote this concept. The riverfront development concept would bring the positive multiplier effects to urban development and ultimately to the well-being of urban citizens. This paper attempts to address the possibilities of riverfront development concept for its existence from the viewpoint of urban planning and environmental sustainability. This thought is based on personal lookout as well as relevant references. The study was carried out by observing some examples of waterfront development in some cities. Assessment on the regulations of riverfront related development was also undertaken. The study found that present approach on rivers or lakes or other public water bodies as the backyard of the development has brought to various environmental degradation. The riverfront concept is expected to reverse the situation for its numerous social, economic and environmental advantages. We suggest that this concept must be implemented elsewhere in Indonesia due to foreseeable returns towards sustainable urban development and sustainable cities.

scholarly journals HUMAN-GEOGRAPHICAL ASSESSMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES OF UKRAINE: PERCEPTIVE COMPONENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Eu.O. Maruniak ◽  
◽  
S.A. Lisovskyi ◽  
I.V. Gukalova ◽  
A.A. Mozghovyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Economic Landscape

The problem of inclusive development has recently taken into account in Ukraine, although at the global level and in the EU such discussions have been going on for a long time, as well as key concepts were included in the documents shaping the international policy agenda. The paper aims to identify local markers of inclusion and/or exclusion within the capital post-socialist city, verify participatory approaches within the context of sustainable urban development research, and create a basis for developing recommendations for further improvement of urban policy in Ukraine. The example of the capital, Kyiv, a city that has been integrated into the global economic landscape for several decades, is the most indicative from the point of view of current and anticipated changes. The article outlines the main features of modern discourse in the field of inclusiveness and integrated urban development. On the case of Kyiv and a few urban neighborhoods, based on a survey and expert assessment, local features of the spatial measurement of inclusiveness, such as accessibility and openness of different types of infrastructural objects, organization of urban space, have been analyzed. The surveys, in addition to positive assessments of the availability of urban infrastructure for residents, and high quality of construction of individual facilities, simultaneously have been revealed significant shortcomings, especially for people with disabilities. The role of urban governance and international projects outcomes to achieve new goals of urban environment quality in Ukraine has been emphasized. The scientific novelty of the article is to identify local signs of inclusiveness and exclusivity in the capital city of a post-socialist country in the context of improving urban policy in Ukraine.

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