The 1996 urban water sector reform in Senegal is not the sustainable development success claimed by its proponents. Privatization and cost-recovery management resulted in poor water and sanitation services unaffordable to many, increased access inequalities, and accelerated wate…
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This thesis examines the power and politics of the notables in a small Ottoman town in the law part of the seventeenth-century. It seeks to integrate the study a macro process, the empowerment of the Ottoman notables in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a micro and …
In the last thirty years, European local authorities have played a pro-active role in the realm of sustainable development, taking part in several European initiatives and projects and setting up municipal networks. The latter, which connect cities scattered across Member States…
This dissertation examines the development of an Indo-Islamic capital city in the age of colonialism. Between 1750 and 1950, Hyderabad served as the capital of the Asaf Jahs (known more popularly as the Nizams), a dynasty whose sovereignty was constrained by the pressures of Bri…
Partnerships for Livable Cities
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"This volume will get a prominent place in my bookcase in the section 'nearly impossible but necessary. Collaboration in multifaceted systems such as cities is difficult to accomplish but nevertheless necessary to make cities more livable. Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels have b…
Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in contemporary planning and governance. While the theoretical debates on post-politics and the wider frame of post-foundational political…
This thesis is about urban politics and polic(y)ing. It seeks to mobilize theories on post-democracy and the post-democratic city as a framework for the analysis of urban politics in Thessaloniki. In doing so, the restructuring of the city's port over the past twenty years or so…
The purpose of this thesis is to identify and understand the factors and mechanisms that underpin the resilience of megaproject developments. To interrogate the subject, the study draws tools from critical urban political theory which enable to analyse and conceptualise the mult…