Politics and performance: the implications of emerging governance arrangements for urban management approaches and information systems

Rakodi, Carole

doi:10.1016/s0197-3975(03)00004-3

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“…The link between these vital issues is a critical one in many developing countries and most commentators support the need for a clear role for improving the effectiveness of planning and management in situations of poverty. This emphasis is in keeping with the works of Rakodi (2003Rakodi ( , 2001), Kironde, (2006), Sliuzas (2004), Arimah and Adeagbo (2000), UNCHS (1999), Zegarac (1999, Fernandes andVarley (1998), Jie (1997), Post (1996), who all argue that understanding unauthorised housing requires addressing three sets of factors including socio-economic motives; urban management practices; the uncertainty of planning standards, in order to be able to formulate planning interventions and the sustainable management of unauthorised housing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 62%

“…The study of unauthorised housing falls within many different disciplines; planners (Rakodi, 2006(Rakodi, , 2003(Rakodi, , 2001Kombe, 2005;Sliuzas, 2004;Pugh, 2000;Kamete, 2000;Zegarac, 1999), architects (Winayanti and Lang, 2004;Tipple, 2000;Fekade, 2000;Jie, 1997;Shakur and Madden, 1991;Turner, 1972), law-makers (Fernandes and Varley, 1998), geographers (Gough and Kellett, 2001;O'Hare et al 1998;Gough, 1996;Main, 1994) and economists (e.g. Pillay and Naude, 2005) have all addressed the issue of unauthorised housing and its relationship with urban planning.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors affecting compliance with residential standards in the city of Old Salt, Jordan

Alnsour

Meaton

2009

Habitat International

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The aim of this paper is to examine the factors which impact on the extent to which urban housing complies with residential standards in the city of Old Salt based in Jordan. The research found that the level of compliance with residential standards is quite low and can vary from one standard to another and from one house to another due to differences in the socio-economic characteristics among people. The findings of multiple regression analysis reveal that there is a good level of public awareness of residential standards, but this does not result in complete compliance with residential standards. Factors, such as household income per month, household size, finance facilities, municipal administration culture, monitoring, enforcement and the uncertainty of residential standards have a significant impact on the extent of compliance with planning standards. Suggestions for improved urban planning practices which address these issues are summarised in the paper and include reassessed current residential standards through comprehensive legal framework, linking residential standards with urban design approaches, changing planning practices, developing information systems to produce effective monitoring systems of construction processes and enforcement mechanism, the development of local staff including planners, designers and environmental engineers, supported partnerships between private and public sectors, and the use of participatory planning and citizen involvement.

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Factors affecting compliance with residential standards in the city of Old Salt, Jordan

Alnsour

Meaton

2009

Habitat International

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“…To appropriate the space means recognizing and getting to know it in a more cognitive sense [44]. In the context of human abode, spatial governance administers the delivery of the following needs: provision of infrastructure to enhance the efficiency of all the spatial operations; provisions for human resource development; improvement in the quality of life in the respective abodes; earnest regulation of all the private activities which affect the welfare of the community; provision of the services and facilities which enhance production activities and allow private businesses to work efficiently [45,46]. It is also supposed to ensure the integrity of respective spatial capital.…”

Section: Spatial Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Governing Harmonious Human Engagement with the Spatial Capital

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Abstract:The unprecedented rate and scale of activities, simulated by human abode in its entirety, is having large and accelerating effects on the integrity of biophysical elements of spatial capital, at local, regional, and global scales. Real appreciation of these effects demands a dramatic change in human manipulation of the spatial capital. Spatial capital can be viewed as processes or a complex matrix, in which not only our spatial but social, economic, and intellectual needs are embedded. Through an extensive synthesis of literature, this study strives to situate as well as manage human abode in context of spatial capital. It focuses on the need of crafting spatial governance, which secures today's needs without compromising the needs of abode for our future generations. For harmonious human engagement with the spatial capital, we focused on following major requisites: (i) filling gaps in the understanding of processes of the respective spatial capital; (ii) integration of this intellectual capital; (iii) and spatial government supported by seamless institutionalisation, and governance processes in a global context. All modes of human abode are unique when analysed in the milieu of their social, economic, cultural, and intellectual yield, and their respective ecological footprint on spatial capital. An essential component of the sustainability of spatial capital is fundamental knowledge of the relevant biophysical processes, which yield the respective social, economic, cultural, and intellectual services we obtain from it. Action-oriented and integrated intellectual capital will yield the required awareness about the spatial capital, which when crystallised into proper institutions their OPEN ACCESS Sustainability 2014, 6 1204 processes will certainly produce promising outcomes for spatial management. Sustainable spatial constructs can only be produced through horizontal and vertical harmonization in governance institutions from the local to global level. It will not only help in the rehabilitation of the spatial capital but can also enhance it.

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“…However, urban governance and development are greatly influenced by local actors in a given jurisdiction (c.f. Stigt et al (2013), Rakodi (2003) and Kihato et al (2013)): they deal directly with local interests including informalities, disputes, land transactions, and land allocations. Arguably, a multi-level urban land governance framework is argued to fill the gap.…”

Section: Multi-level Urban Land Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the context of urban land, for example, incorporating governance concepts has at least three advantages. First, it pinpoints the exact causes of the urban people-to-urban land problems such as urban land access and land use at the local level, where the epicenter of urban development is located (Rakodi 2003). Second, a governance approach provokes discussions among the diverse actors, including urban people, to scrutinize alternative solutions to the problems identified.…”

Section: Urban Land Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban cadastres for urban land governance

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Politics and performance: the implications of emerging governance arrangements for urban management approaches and information systems

Cited by 52 publications

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Factors affecting compliance with residential standards in the city of Old Salt, Jordan

Factors affecting compliance with residential standards in the city of Old Salt, Jordan

Governing Harmonious Human Engagement with the Spatial Capital

Urban cadastres for urban land governance

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