Citizen participation at the micro-community level: The case of the green alley projects in Quebec City

Brazeau-Béliveau, Noémie; Cloutier, Geneviève

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.103065

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“…For urban planning to effectively address potential continuities between dwellers' attitudes towards public green areas and caring of plants in private housing, there is a need to consider the entanglement of ecological and social uses of nature. We advocate that favouring social ties around food production or public green areas, leading to more civic commitment in urban projects ( Brazeau-Béliveau & Cloutier, 2021 ) and helping non-expert citizens to gain knowledge about plants and their benefits for the ecosystem, can push forward the greening of private housing. Greening the city could have a ripple effect on the greening of private housing, thus enhancing nature relatedness.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing nature into private urban housing: Environmental, social and food connections for urban resilience

Debucquet

Maignant

Laroche

et al. 2022

Cities

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing nature into private urban housing: Environmental, social and food connections for urban resilience

Debucquet

Maignant

Laroche

et al. 2022

Cities

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“…Moreover, it relates to the sustainability of assets. This alludes to the degree to which exercises advanced by the programme will protect the asset base for future use (Brazeau et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Determinants of Community Participation in Sustainable Management of Rural Water Supply System: Evidence from District Lahore, Pakistan

Yasmin,

Afzal,

Ullah

et al. 2024

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Sustainable functionality of rural water supply systems is one of the most imperative aspects to ensure the provision of safe drinking water for communities. In recent decades, a number of projects have been initiated by national and international organizations to meet the desired need for safe drinking water and sanitation, but a large proportion of these development projects fail shortly after their execution. The majority of water supply projects fail in rural communities within three years after development due to the least level of community participation regarding decision-making, site identification, planning, execution, monitoring, evaluation and management process and, above all, unawareness, lack of basic technical and management skills. This study presents the most influencing determinants of community participation that are compulsory for the sustainable functionality of rural water supply systems. This study was conducted in the district of Lahore, Pakistan and simple random sampling methods and techniques were applied to draw the sample from the population. A semi-structured questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection. The result of the study indicated that a significant association existed among community participation in planning, execution, operation, maintenance & evaluation processes and sustainability functionality of rural water supply systems.

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“…Martin (1996) also argued that residential alleys are unique spaces that enable physical and social informality among neighbours, as opposed to more formally regulated usage on streets. Residential alleys can be valued as play spaces for children (Furneaux and Manaugh, 2019), and as community spaces they can excel through participatory initiatives between residents and NGOs (Brazeau-Be´liveau and Cloutier, 2021). Some even argued in favour of transforming alleys into formally recognised open spaces (Newell et al, 2013;Wolch et al, 2010) although the risk of such initiatives being overtaken by formulaic planning visions was not acknowledged.…”

Section: Residential Alleys: Underdetermined Spaces Of Multiple Poten...mentioning

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In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia

Moreau

2023

Urban Studies

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This paper engages in critical debate with urban informality in interstitial urban spaces through the lens of micro-scalar spatial practices motivated by everyday needs and desires. The aim is to examine the generative potential of small-scale reappropriations to change the functions, meanings and governing policies of undervalued urban spaces. An empirical focus is taken on residential alleys in inner-city neighbourhoods of Melbourne, Australia. Remnants of 19th-century sanitation and drainage infrastructure, these alleys are now underdetermined spaces of manifold functions and meanings. Drawing from extensive fieldwork documentation and interviews, this study maps and interrogates the interplay of formal and informal spatial practices. Formal practices, driven by assertion of authority rather than vision for public space, operate like Bourdieu’s habitus. Informal practices, driven by everyday needs and desires, have a teleoaffective dimension that can modify the social field in which these dispositions are formed and thereby alter habitus.

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Citizen participation at the micro-community level: The case of the green alley projects in Quebec City

Cited by 18 publications

References 71 publications

Bringing nature into private urban housing: Environmental, social and food connections for urban resilience

Bringing nature into private urban housing: Environmental, social and food connections for urban resilience

Determinants of Community Participation in Sustainable Management of Rural Water Supply System: Evidence from District Lahore, Pakistan

In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia

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