Notes on the Potential of Teaching Spatial Practices in Informal Urbanisms
Originally posted on {FAVEL issues}:
In his 2004 article Fallacies in Architectural Culture, Professor Doug Kelbaugh suggested that there were at least seven fallacies that shaped contemporary architectural culture.[i]…
Rights, social justice and development
In recent weeks, openDemocracy has published a number of interesting articles discussing the concrete impact of having social and economic rights legalized/incorporated into into a nations’ constitution. What is particularly interesting about … Continue reading
The State of Civil Society Report 2014
The State of Civil Society Report 2014: Reimagining Global Governance draws on contributions from more than 30 of the world’s leading experts on civil society as well as on inputs … Continue reading
Shining a light on the shadowy institutions giving public support to private companies and taking over the development agenda
Development finance has changed substantially over the past decade. Private finance has replaced aid at the centre of global and national development initiatives, for both governments and international bodies. Development … Continue reading
The Unfulfilled Promise of Online Deliberation
Hartz-Karp and Sullivan – Since online deliberation has not delivered on the expectations of more considered, democratic participation, the authors propose less focus on technological ‘fixes’ and more on re-conceptualizing … Continue reading
Post-Global Proto-Cities?
Originally posted on {FAVEL issues}:
? All countries that constitute Latin America are developing countries; approximately 124 million of its urban inhabitants live in poverty. This number is manifested in…
Putting Politics Back Into Development
Creating systemic change is fundamentally a political process insofar as it involves power—who has power, how those in power act, and especially how those in power allocate resources. You can’t … Continue reading
The informalisation policy
Originally posted on {FAVEL issues}:
Nearly two month ago we moved to Malmö, probably one of the best-organized cities in the world. Malmö is Sweden’s third city; nearly 300 000…
Social Accountability: What Does the Evidence Really Say?
Originally posted on DemocracySpot:
So what does the evidence about citizen engagement say? Particularly in the development world it is common to say that the evidence is “mixed”. It is…
Reading Development 