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Pathways to Drive (Social, Economic and Physical) Transformation of Informal Settlements into Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods: a Case of Johannesburg
Get PDFGlobally, several studies have been commissied on informal settlements, particularly in cities such as
Barcelona, Johannesburg, Cairo and Lagos. Much of the literature on urban informality from several
disciplines maintain that informality occurs as a result of globalisation and population exclusions that occur
due to development and urbanisation. Besides the prevalence of this phenomeon, there still lacks scholarly
work that fully tackles the epistemology behind informal “otherness” of the urban form. Apparent gaps are
notable in informal economies and communities which are detached from formal communities and thus,
function to a greater or lesser extent without the intervention of formal economies. This paper focuses on
investigating pathways to transforming informal settlements into sustainable urban neighbourhoods. The
research adopted a case study research design wherein Johannesburg was used to investigate the
socioeconomic political dimensions of informal settlements. This draws from various narratives that were
employed to articulate the rationale behind informal settlement developments along with a contemporary
understanding of the concept. This will further be contextualised under the spatial theme with reference to
the urban form of the informal regions Therefore, the paper adopted a mixed method approach making
reference to both a quantitative and qualitative research approach by means of a case study research design
wherein various spatial planning tools are reviewed pertinent to the research objectives and offered a
narrative perspective to the research aim and questions. We further conducted multiple interviews with
various officials of the Johannesburg Department of Housing as a primary data collection method and a
thematic analysis was respectively employed as tool of analysing the data The findings indicate that
Johannesburg functions as a partial satellite city with sub-cities connecting to it and informal settlements in
these areas have developed in a similar pattern. They form behind commercial spaces for the convenience of
accessibility. A common trend across these settlements is their informal design typology and the lack of
formal masterplans in conjunction to the city’s spatial development initiatives. Proximity to existing
economic nodes such as Midrand, Kempton Park, and Sandton, provides a vantage point to both informal,
transitioning, and formal urban forms. Across Kaalfontein, the informal urban form comprises natural and
formalised street layouts. The erven are densely divided and are often influenced by the spatial landscape and
density of the population. These findings indicate that there exists a need to critically and intrinsically query
the expectations and rationale that lies behind local government strategies and policies that purport to be
directed towards the sustainable upgrading of informal settlements and slums. Set against a background of
entrenched socio-cultural protocols, limiting institutional processes, and economic disparity as noted in other
strategic documents of the city, there exists a difficulty in integrating informal settlements into sustainable
urban forms. In an era of joint ventures and ascendancy of neo-liberal market policy, informal settlements
are increasingly at risk of being subject to the “full force” of formal state law to enable the redevelopment
process to proceed. Consequently, The paper concludes by generating new perspectivess on sustainable
urban forms under the context of informal settlements and provides clarity on how the city can employ the
proposed indicator matrix toolkit to gauge informal settlements urban form sustainability performance. Key
to the application of this matrix tool is geographic information systems software and spatial processing tools
that can effectively deduce the relationship performance of various elements in facilitating the desired
growth
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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