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Inclusion and placemaking based participation The case of Klostergata56
Get PDFA city's public spaces play an integral part in the daily lives of people and, when altered, the costs and benefits affect everyone. Hence, they should be the product of democratic tools and inclusive processes, all part of the umbrella of participatory planning. Public participation in decision-making processes is important as it reveals the different views and perspectives of the affected stakeholders, allowing them to have an impact on the outcome. The methodology and management of the process are crucial in achieving fruitful and truly representative outcomes. In the case of poor representation or conflicting visions, it is not easy to ensure that different voices are equally involved and weigh in the same in the decisions taken. This brings up issues of inclusion and exclusion, which go hand in hand with social inequality.
This thesis is a case study research, which focuses on the process of co-designing Klostergata56, a small, underutilized public space in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. Using placemaking as a participatory planning tool, the community and relevant stakeholders are given the opportunity to share their thoughts and design ideas, which will then be reflected in the final design intervention activating the space. While the importance of evaluating participatory processes is receiving increasing attention, little progress has been done in developing measurable assessment tools. The study therefore develops a framework to analyze the placemaking based participatory process, and applies it to the case of Klostergata56 to investigate its level of inclusion. Data is gathered by combining qualitative methods in the pursuit of triangulation – case study observations of the author, interviews with participants of the process, as well as interviews with experts from the field. The study concludes that the process had significant limitations to being inclusive, because some important stakeholders did not participate, there was a range in the level of participation reached by the engaged groups, and just a few of them were actively involved. Moreover, differences are potentially created in levels of nurtured social capital and civic trust. The high range of setbacks, caused by the facilitators, the stakeholders and even the context, as the study argues, makes it virtually impossible to have a fully inclusive process. However, even if inclusion is a goal that cannot be fully attained, it is still important to put forth explicit efforts to reach as close to it as possible
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Inclusion and placemaking based participation The case of Klostergata56
No full textA city's public spaces play an integral part in the daily lives of people and, when altered, the costs and benefits affect everyone. Hence, they should be the product of democratic tools and inclusive processes, all part of the umbrella of participatory planning. Public participation in decision-making processes is important as it reveals the different views and perspectives of the affected stakeholders, allowing them to have an impact on the outcome. The methodology and management of the process are crucial in achieving fruitful and truly representative outcomes. In the case of poor representation or conflicting visions, it is not easy to ensure that different voices are equally involved and weigh in the same in the decisions taken. This brings up issues of inclusion and exclusion, which go hand in hand with social inequality.
This thesis is a case study research, which focuses on the process of co-designing Klostergata56, a small, underutilized public space in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. Using placemaking as a participatory planning tool, the community and relevant stakeholders are given the opportunity to share their thoughts and design ideas, which will then be reflected in the final design intervention activating the space. While the importance of evaluating participatory processes is receiving increasing attention, little progress has been done in developing measurable assessment tools. The study therefore develops a framework to analyze the placemaking based participatory process, and applies it to the case of Klostergata56 to investigate its level of inclusion. Data is gathered by combining qualitative methods in the pursuit of triangulation – case study observations of the author, interviews with participants of the process, as well as interviews with experts from the field. The study concludes that the process had significant limitations to being inclusive, because some important stakeholders did not participate, there was a range in the level of participation reached by the engaged groups, and just a few of them were actively involved. Moreover, differences are potentially created in levels of nurtured social capital and civic trust. The high range of setbacks, caused by the facilitators, the stakeholders and even the context, as the study argues, makes it virtually impossible to have a fully inclusive process. However, even if inclusion is a goal that cannot be fully attained, it is still important to put forth explicit efforts to reach as close to it as possible
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
SOCIAL EQUITY IN URBAN TRANSPORT IN INDIA An Analysis of Equity Consideration for Urban Poor in Indian Transport Planning Trends and Policies
No full textTransport plays a crucial role in guiding development, connecting people and communities to the world, facilitating commercial activities. Although transportation sectors globally prioritized the sustainable framework in recent years, emphasis was given primarily on the two key factors- economy and environmental; whereas, less emphasis is given upon the equity issue (Brussel et al., 2019). Unlike the economic and environmental impacts, there are very few specific strategies, evaluation process and indicators for measuring the social equity factors; because of that, often it is difficult to measure the impact of the transport initiatives on the different groups of society. As a result, the purpose of transportation to help people to reach various opportunities, is still unequally distributed in many cities across the world specially in global south where social segregation is a complex problem often aggravated by the lack of proper transport facilities. (Brussel et al., 2019). Therefore, it is of utmost importance for the policy makers, transport planners, relative experts and stakeholders, to prioritize the assessment of social equity impact of different transport policies and initiatives and explore the indicators that draws upon the equity issues that affects the people from different strata. In the Indian context, a significant number of people are marginalized socially, politically, economically and culturally. With a predominant automobile centric transport system, the implication of the social equity issue is more complex and imperative to implement here.
The thesis aims to contribute to the sustainable transport planning study to highlight the importance of the social equity issue to transport policy makers, relative experts, actors and stakeholders in their actions for sustainable transport for Indian cities. It studies the application of the social equity factors in sustainable transport policies in Indian context. It investigates how Indian cities are operationalizing social equity in their sustainable transport initiatives through analyzing the transport policies from 6 major cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, & Hyderabad). It also analyzes the impacts of the practical implementation under those policies with available public data and reports. The study finds that despite of having sustainable transport vision, the transport regulations do not hold the necessary equitable strategies to holistically address the large group of low-income population or other vulnerable groups. There seems to be an emerging need to reform the existing transport policy and project trends to ensure the optimization of public transport services to all level of citizen in the country
SOCIAL EQUITY IN URBAN TRANSPORT IN INDIA An Analysis of Equity Consideration for Urban Poor in Indian Transport Planning Trends and Policies
No full textTransport plays a crucial role in guiding development, connecting people and communities to the world, facilitating commercial activities. Although transportation sectors globally prioritized the sustainable framework in recent years, emphasis was given primarily on the two key factors- economy and environmental; whereas, less emphasis is given upon the equity issue (Brussel et al., 2019). Unlike the economic and environmental impacts, there are very few specific strategies, evaluation process and indicators for measuring the social equity factors; because of that, often it is difficult to measure the impact of the transport initiatives on the different groups of society. As a result, the purpose of transportation to help people to reach various opportunities, is still unequally distributed in many cities across the world specially in global south where social segregation is a complex problem often aggravated by the lack of proper transport facilities. (Brussel et al., 2019). Therefore, it is of utmost importance for the policy makers, transport planners, relative experts and stakeholders, to prioritize the assessment of social equity impact of different transport policies and initiatives and explore the indicators that draws upon the equity issues that affects the people from different strata. In the Indian context, a significant number of people are marginalized socially, politically, economically and culturally. With a predominant automobile centric transport system, the implication of the social equity issue is more complex and imperative to implement here.
The thesis aims to contribute to the sustainable transport planning study to highlight the importance of the social equity issue to transport policy makers, relative experts, actors and stakeholders in their actions for sustainable transport for Indian cities. It studies the application of the social equity factors in sustainable transport policies in Indian context. It investigates how Indian cities are operationalizing social equity in their sustainable transport initiatives through analyzing the transport policies from 6 major cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, & Hyderabad). It also analyzes the impacts of the practical implementation under those policies with available public data and reports. The study finds that despite of having sustainable transport vision, the transport regulations do not hold the necessary equitable strategies to holistically address the large group of low-income population or other vulnerable groups. There seems to be an emerging need to reform the existing transport policy and project trends to ensure the optimization of public transport services to all level of citizen in the country
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