This article explores the key features of contemporary floor space index policy in Mumbai to contribute to the ongoing debates and provide the context for evaluating the proposed urban policy changes. Contemporary FSI in Mumbai exists in a policy network of exemptions, incentives, and development rights.
Published in Cities (London, England)
While several non-pharmacological measures have been implemented for a few months in an effort to slow the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States, the disease remains a danger in a number of counties as restrictions are lifted to revive the economy. Making a trade-off between economic recovery and infection control is a major ...
Published in Current environmental health reports
Evaluating the environmental health impacts of urban policies is critical for developing and implementing policies that lead to more healthy and equitable cities. This article aims to (1) identify research questions commonly used when evaluating the health impacts of urban policies at different stages of the policy process, (2) describe commonly us...
Au regard des discours médiatiques qui promeuvent l'entrepreneuriat comme acte de liberté, la thèse vise à comprendre ce que désigne et produit la politique publique d'« entrepreneuriat pour tous » mise en œuvre dans des territoires marqués par la précarité socio-économique. Elle interroge le principe d'égalité des chances prôné dans l'accompagneme...
Published in International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
The Covid-19 pandemic has negatively disrupted the way our economy and society functions. Nonetheless, there have also been some positive externalities of the pandemic on the environment. This paper aims to evaluate the concentration of nitrogen dioxide in Brazilian metropolitan regions after the policies adopted to confront Covid-19. In terms of m...
Urban transformation typically focuses on facilitating middle classes, while (often) characterized as gentrification, which as a process is tied to global circuits of urban policy transfers. The neighborhoods densely inhabited by (im)migrant populations seem to compose the neighborhood’s reputation and stigmatization, which, in return, construct th...
This article addresses the role that the local State has had, through urban public policies, in the socio-urban configuration of Bariloche and what the main strategies have been in relation to the problem of access to land and housing in the post convertibility. For this we analyze the main local regulations, planning policies, land management tool...
Published in GeoJournal
The paper contributes towards deciphering and decoding the misery of the urban poor in light of the COVID-19 scourge. The paper unpacks urban poverty in light of the corona virus. The emergence of the COVID-19 and the lack of any vaccines requires physical distancing as preventative measures to contain and reduce the spread of the virus. Government...
Published in Soziale Passagen
Seit vielen Jahren gibt es in Deutschland eine kraftvolle wohnungspolitische Bewegung. Sie kritisiert steigende Mieten, Gentrifizierung, mangelnde Mitbestimmungsmöglichkeiten oder die Unterversorgung von Wohnungslosen und Geflüchteten. Zugleich organisiert sie Mieter:innen, alternative Wohnraumpolitiken und Kampagnen. Anhand von Einblicken aus Berl...
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