Seeing the Forest through the Trees: Sociocultural Factors of Dense Urban Spaces

Wolfel, Richard L.; Richmond, Amy K.; Grazaitis, Peter J.

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“…The conceptual framework we use in this paper is based on Binder's [20] approach to political development and adapted in Wolfel, Richmond, & Grazaitis [21]. Binder [20] identifies five categories of political development, and later scholars including LaPalombara [22] and Fierman [23], added a sixth category known as allocation.…”

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“…Binder [20] identifies five categories of political development, and later scholars including LaPalombara [22] and Fierman [23], added a sixth category known as allocation. These six categories, or networks, are discussed in detail in [21] and summarized below. These categories influence the development and functioning of dense urban areas from the socio-cultural perspective and in turn influence leadership structures within the city.…”

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Using a Socio-Cultural Framework to Understand Leadership Structures Amongst the Urban Poor

Richmond¹,

Wolfel²,

Walsh³

2019

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Informal settlements have been the most pervasive form of new urban development over the past half century and the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. In this paper we determine the characteristics that are critical to understanding leadership structures in deprived regions within dense urban areas. In doing so we establish the key characteristics that contribute to urban poverty and introduce a conceptual model that can be applied to any city and contributes to an understanding of the socio-cultural characteristics of leadership structures in a slum. The framework we use in this paper to understand slum leadership structures is initially applied to Accra and Delhi. Urban poverty is frequently discussed either in terms of the developing or developed world, therefore we also apply the same framework to a disadvantaged community in the United States. This highlights that although the approaches to studying urban poor are often separate and distinct between the Global South and Global North, we believe using a similar framework can emphasize similarities and differences that might contribute to policy that is more effective in both locations. All of our discussed case studies highlight the importance of effective informal local leadership structures that communicate well with a transparent formal city government. Partnerships between all levels of leadership are paramount to successful city planning that focuses simultaneously on economic development and social equity. We expect this research will contribute to a more holistic perspective of how leadership structures within informal regions are related to the city as a whole.

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Using a Socio-Cultural Framework to Understand Leadership Structures Amongst the Urban Poor

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Wolfel²,

Walsh³

2019

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“…The majority of Finns want to slow down the forces of urbanization with better access to basic infrastructures in rural areas [65]. In the next few decades, the complexity of dense urban areas was identified to be one of the major challenges that people, organization and governments will face [66].…”

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Food and Nutrition Security as a Measure of Resilience in the Barents Region

Raheem

2018

Urban Science

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Food and nutrition security builds resilience in a society when people have access to safe and nutritious foods. The Barents region, covering the Northern parts of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and the North-western part of Russia, seeks common goals that include the well-being of the region's inhabitants by ensuring preservation of local culture and social and environmental sustainability. This paper reviews existing literature on food and nutrition security in relation to building resilience and promoting well-being in the region. Amongst the local communities, traditional foods have served as a major source of healthy diet that ensures food security. Access to secure, nutritious, and healthy food is one of the aspects offering greater human security and societal stability. Traditional food has served as a major source of healthy diet, in particular, in the remote sparsely populated Barents region and amongst the local communities of the region. However, there is concern about global climate change and its effect on the region and pollution from human activities, such as the extractive industrial activities, that are detrimental to safe and secure food supply chain. In this paper, I highlight the contribution of traditional foods to food security in the Barents region. In addition, the paper emphasized that value addition to these traditional foods will help to stimulate the economy by creating new jobs. Ultimately, ensuring food and nutrition security in a sustainable way within the region will help to build resilience and promote culture and ecology with a view to offering greater human and societal security.

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“…A common theme among the issue's offerings is a realization of the immense complexity of cities. This is largely due to human activities and Wolfel et al [8] offer an analysis of sociocultural factors that magnify the complexity of urban systems. In contrast to an environmental approach to studying cities, the authors argue that social, economic, cultural, and political factors attributable to humans necessitate a novel lens through which to analyze urban systems.…”

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“…Exploiting large data on a sub-basin of the greater Tampa Bay Watershed in US state of Florida, Lagrosa et al parameterize and execute the Dyna-CLUE modeling framework. As in [8] the authors note that addressing urban systems with this level of complexity greatly increases the number of relevant variables that must be considered.…”

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Urban Science: Putting the “Smart” in Smart Cities

Shutters

2018

Urban Science

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Increased use of sensors and social data collection methods have provided cites with unprecedented amounts of data. Yet, data alone is no guarantee that cities will make smarter decisions and many of what we call smart cities would be more accurately described as data-driven cities. Parallel advances in theory are needed to make sense of those novel data streams and computationally intensive decision support models are needed to guide decision makers through the avalanche of new data. Fortunately, extraordinary increases in computational ability and data availability in the last two decades have led to revolutionary advances in the simulation and modeling of complex systems. Techniques, such as agent-based modeling and systems dynamic modeling, have taken advantage of these advances to make major contributions to diverse disciplines such as personalized medicine, computational chemistry, social dynamics, or behavioral economics. Urban systems, with dynamic webs of interacting human, institutional, environmental, and physical systems, are particularly suited to the application of these advanced modeling and simulation techniques. Contributions to this special issue highlight the use of such techniques and are particularly timely as an emerging science of cities begins to crystallize.

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Seeing the Forest through the Trees: Sociocultural Factors of Dense Urban Spaces

Cited by 4 publications

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Using a Socio-Cultural Framework to Understand Leadership Structures Amongst the Urban Poor

Using a Socio-Cultural Framework to Understand Leadership Structures Amongst the Urban Poor

Food and Nutrition Security as a Measure of Resilience in the Barents Region

Urban Science: Putting the “Smart” in Smart Cities

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