Fractal spaces for planning and governance

Chettiparamb, Angelique

doi:10.3828/tpr.76.3.6

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“…The entire Municipal budget is to be planned and allocated through this process. For more details, see Isaac and Franke, 2000and Chettiparamb, 2005, 2007b. The significance of the availability of well-instituted spaces for public engagement and initiative at the local level must not be missed.…”

Section: School Meals In Kodungallur Municipalitymentioning

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‘Policy Build-Up’ in Implementation: The Case of School Meals Provision in Kodungallur, Kerala, India

Chettiparamb

2009

Eur J Dev Res

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This paper discusses the implementation of the provision of school meals in Kodungallur in Kerala, India as a case of how vertical inter-governmental synergies and horizontal local linkages are brought together in programme design and implementation. The empirical data were collected for a larger cross-national study looking into homegrown school feeding undertaken by Morgan et al commissioned by the World Food Programme. The re-interpretation herein highlights aspects of subsidiarity and its sector-specific policy translation that allows the tackling of food security as it pertains to school children in one municipality in India. The key argument advanced is the relevance of action at multiple levels to allow for what is termed as ‘policy build-up’ so as to achieve all-round effectiveness.Cet article étudie comment les synergies inter-gouvernementales verticales et les relations locales horizontales permettent la définition et la mise en oeuvre de programmes au travers du cas de l'implantation d'une cantine à Kodungallur, au Kerala, en Inde. Les données empiriques furent collectées par Morgan et al pour une étude à l'échelon national commissionnée par le Programme Alimentaire Mondial (PAM) d'un programme d'alimentation scolaire maison. La présente analyse fait ressortir des aspects de subsidiarité et leur traduction en mesures spécifiques à ce secteur qui permettent de s'attaquer au problème de la sécurité alimentaire qui concerne les élèves d'une municipalité indienne. La pertinence de l'action à des niveaux multiples dans la construction de la politique à mettre en oeuvre constitue l'élément clé pour permettre la plus grande efficacité possible.European Journal of Development Research (2009) 21, 419–434. doi:10.1057/ejdr.2009.14; published online 23 April 2009

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Section: School Meals In Kodungallur Municipalitymentioning

confidence: 96%

‘Policy Build-Up’ in Implementation: The Case of School Meals Provision in Kodungallur, Kerala, India

Chettiparamb

2009

Eur J Dev Res

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“…The conceptual tools that complexity theory provides deals with the question of mechanisms of interaction in the observed system, addressing questions of ‘how’ systems behave rather than the normative directions that systems ought to follow (Chettiparamb, 2005). Authors in other disciplines have also noted this perceived ‘limitation’ of complexity theory.…”

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“…The insights on ‘what’ dynamics however can potentially inform planning in triggering further enquiries. For instance, planning thought working with structural interventions might identify the ‘why’, the ‘how’ and the ‘so what’ after having recognised and identified such fractal forms in real life governance and space contexts (see, for instance, Chettiparamb, 2005, 2013 for the how and why and Chettiparamb et al, 2011 for the ‘so what?’ questions). Fractals might also inform agency by suggesting ways in which a planner might make a difference within existing institutional architectures.…”

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Responding to a complex world: Explorations in spatial planning

Chettiparamb

2019

Planning Theory

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This article discusses three aspects in relation to Complexity Theory. First, from an understanding of time and space specificities in the rise of theories, it discusses the wider socio-political reasons that may account for the rise of complexity theory and its interest for planners today. The rise of the third sector in governance, the decentralisation of the nation state, the rise of informality, the exponential rise of information and knowledge in every sphere of human and non-human activity and the rise of new normative ideologies are argued to provide the social context for interest in complexity theory. Second, this article positions complexity theory within general social science theories and argues that complexity theory best suits the second-order realm of social science theorisation. Third, this article positions complexity theory within planning theory and suggests that complexity theorists within planning might engage with the theory in three ways. These are by suggesting new ways of ordering of society and space by configuring or re-configuring planning systems in the first order, unravelling new opportunities for actors to work in society and space with largely self-organised entities and finally by searching for and discovering new dynamics for systems in the first order in society and space.

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“…44 The leaf photosynthate transportation network topology is of great significance to improve the transportation capacity of a network. 45,46 During the growth of plants, the leaf is an important influencing factor. In addition, the texture of the leaf is one of the complex plant morphological structures.…”

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A heuristic algorithm based on leaf photosynthate transport

Shan

Guo

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Transportation network design is non-deterministic polynomial-time hard due to its attributes of multi-objects, multiconstraints, and the non-convexity objective function. In this paper, a bi-level programming model is proposed for the transportation network design. The upper layer pursues the minimum total travel time of users and the total length of the road network simultaneously, while the lower layer is an equilibrium assignment model. A new algorithm for the network optimization based on the principle of leaf photosynthate transport in nature is proposed. The proposed algorithm simulates the natural selection of biological evolution and genetic transmission. It can retain the genetic idea of the evolutionary algorithm, together with the heuristic information update mechanism of swarm intelligence. Finally, empirical research is carried out with the Sioux Falls network to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm. The results show that although the total network length obtained by the proposed algorithm increases slightly compared with the ant colony algorithm and the genetic algorithm, the total travel time and objective function value reduce obviously. This indicates that the proposed algorithm has good performance on topology and efficiency.

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Fractal spaces for planning and governance

Cited by 20 publications

References 27 publications

‘Policy Build-Up’ in Implementation: The Case of School Meals Provision in Kodungallur, Kerala, India

‘Policy Build-Up’ in Implementation: The Case of School Meals Provision in Kodungallur, Kerala, India

Responding to a complex world: Explorations in spatial planning

A heuristic algorithm based on leaf photosynthate transport

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