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Mengapa orang Madura? Perbandingan konflik etnis di Kalimantan Barat dan Kalimantan Timur
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Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects: Management, Partnerships & Effects in the Netherlands and the UK
No full textSubject of study is Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Such projects involve property developers taking a leading role and local authorities adopting a facilitating role in the management of the development of an urban area, based on a framework of public requirements and a formal contractual public-private role division. Such a development strategy is quite common in Anglo-Saxon urban development practices but is less known in Continental European practices. Nonetheless, since the beginning of the millennium such a development strategy also occurred in the Netherlands in the form of 'concessions'. However, remarkably little empirical knowledge is available about how public and private actors collaborate on and manage such projects and what the effects of their actions are. This dissertation provides a conceptual and empirical understanding of the various characteristics of private sector-led urban development projects by conducting empirical case study research in the Dutch and UK planning context. Important conclusions are that private sector-led urban development requires various complementary types of public-private management, and additional informal forms of public-private collaboration besides the formal contractual role division, and results in positive effects in terms of effectiveness and spatial quality. Besides this the research contains specific organisational and managerial recommendations for practice and science. Private sector-led urban development is a promising development strategy for spatial projects in the Netherlands at a time in which governments focus their attention towards facilitating private sector initiatives and investments in the city.Real Estate & HousingArchitectur
Deciding about Design Quality: Value judgements and decision making in the selection of architects by public clients under European tendering regulations
No full textIn the past few years the image of tender procedures in which Dutch public clients selected an architect has been dominated by distressing newspaper headlines. Architects fear that the current tender culture will harm the quality of our built environment due to a potential lack of diversity, creativity and innovation in architectural design. Due to potential risks clients often allow legal requirements to overrule their actual wishes. This PhD research addresses the origin of the problems as currently experienced by public commissioning clients in architect selection and proposes pragmatic implications for future practice. It is therefore of interest for commissioning clients, management consultants, policy makers and legal advisors but also for designers and researchers in the field of architecture and decision making. Based on four empirical cases the author shows that during architect selection the rational legal requirements clash with the psychological process of decision making. Decision makers only start to make sense of the proposed designs once they are confronted with the alternatives. It is therefore almost impossible for clients to design a selection procedure and announce the criteria and weighting factors up front, as required by procurement law. The scientific underpinning of the findings is found in four theoretical perspectives on value judgements in design and the latest decision theories in which sensemaking, emotion, intuition, and expertise play prominent roles. The thesis proposes fifteen factors for a successful design of a tender procedure to select an architect. It also offers recommendations for change of the current Dutch practice.Real Estate & HousingArchitectur
Strategy as Force: Towards Effective Strategies for Urban Development Projects: The Case of Rotterdam CityPorts
No full textIn European urban development practices, there is a recurring need for new perspectives that provide insight into the complexity involved in the realization of projects. This need exists particularly around prestigious projects, where the tension between planning ambitions on the one hand, and the reality of conflicting interests and tight budgets on the other reaches its highest point. In the Netherlands, it is also likely that this tension will not decrease in the coming years. Reason enough for an investigation into strategies for urban development projects. This thesis combines several existing scientific insights around the phenomenon 'strategy'. Here, strategy is recognized as force. The term force emphasizes that a strategy, as opposed to a plan, provides those involved with the capacity to respond to the continuously changing reality of an urban development project. Thus, an effective strategy not only consists of making plans, but also includes three other strategic activities: venturing, learning, and visioning. These insights are then specified on the basis of the remarkable case of Rotterdam CityPorts – a project between city and port in which political and economic forces are especially amplified. This leads the thesis to develop a comprehensible theoretical model that reflects the complexity occurring in the realization of contemporary urban development projects. This strategy-as-force model is useful for both scientists and practitioners.Real Estate & HousingArchitectur
Shanghai Pudong: Urban development in an era of global-local interaction
Full text linkThe emerging of large-scale urban (re)development projects presents a complex situation for local urban managers to deal with. They involve various local-global actors, public-private sectors and flow of finance and know-how from far beyond local city boundaries. Developing projects as such can be prolonged. In the development of Pudong New Area in Shanghai, China, we have seen a mega project developed at an extraordinary speed that few projects in the world have ever achieved. How could the development of Pudong have been realized so rapidly? This book draws special attention to the large-scale urban area development with the focus of understanding how global-local interplay played a role in shaping area development strategies in Pudong's explosive development. It analysed in depth the practical measures which affected the speed of the development, including the decision-making process, management strategies affecting land development, infrastructural development and the closely related local real estate market and the way in which investment and finance was mobilised. The research shows that the speed achieved in Pudong development was made possible by a number of factors interrelated in such a way as to perform a unique function not achievable by any one of those factors in isolation. The theory of the developmental state made it possible to clarify the powerful motives underlying government intervention in local affairs and the network approach exploited by local government to formulate coalition between state and market, global and local.Architectur
Performance measurement of workplace change in two different cultural contexts
Full text linkThere is a growing need for performance management and performance measurement that not only covers all aspects of an organisation, but which can be applied to various situations in a changing internal and external environment. The changing organisational and external contexts, such as the increasing demand for talented knowledge workers and changing work patterns, have led to the development of new offices that can promote social networks and interaction among employees. This PhD research focuses on both themes i.e. performance measurement of workplace change. The aim of this research is to provide a conceptual framework that visualises the impact of workplace change on employees’ responses to the new work environment and to present guidelines on performance measurement of workplace change in different contexts. Two organisations in Thailand and one organisation in The Netherlands were selected to serve as case studies. The impact of culture was explored as a contextual background. Based on literature review an overview of performance measurement systems and measures has been developed. The impact of workplace change was examined using the work environment diagnosis instrument (WODI) questionnaire which evaluates employees’ responses to the changed work environment in three areas: employee satisfaction, perceived productivity support and prioritised aspects (Maarleveld, et al., 2009). The Organisational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI; Cameron and Quinn, 2006) was used to assess organisational culture. National culture was measured by using the Value Survey Module 94 (VSM94; Hofstede, 1997). These conceptual frameworks on performance measurement and employees’ appraisals of workplace change can be used as a reference to provide input for further improvement of performance measurement and performance management.Real Estate & HousingArchitecture and The Built Environmen
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