The Limits to Capital

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

http://amirfs.persiangig.com/University/sdarticle(6).pdf

'The planned city sweeps the poor away ... ' § : Urban planning and 21st century urbanisation

Some people may be laughing when looking at you reading in your spare time. Some may be admired of you. And some may want be like you who have reading hobby. What about your own feel? Have you felt right? Reading is a need and a hobby at once. This condition is the on that will make you feel that you must read. If you know are looking for the book enPDFd the transit metropolis a global inquiry as the choice of reading, you can find here.

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The transit metropolis: a global inquiry

La versione italiana di questo documento e disponibile al seguente link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2731132The core technology of Bitcoin, the blockchain, has recently emerged as a disruptive innovation with a wide range of applications, potentially able to redesign our interactions in business, politics and society at large. Although scholarly interest in this subject is growing, a comprehensive analysis of blockchain applications from a political perspective is severely lacking to date. This paper aims to fill this gap and it discusses the key points of blockchain-based decentralized governance, which challenges to varying degrees the traditional mechanisms of State authority, citizenship and democracy. In particular, the paper verifies to which extent blockchain and decentralized platforms can be considered as hyper-political tools, capable to manage social interactions on large scale and dismiss traditional central authorities. The analysis highlights risks related to a dominant position of private powers in distributed ecosystems, which may lead to a general disempowerment of citizens and to the emergence of a stateless global society. While technological utopians urge the demise of any centralized institution, this paper advocates the role of the State as a necessary central point of coordination in society, showing that decentralization through algorithm-based consensus is an organizational theory, not a stand-alone political theory.

https://virtusinterpress.org/IMG/pdf/10.22495_jgr_v6_i1_p5.pdf

Blockchain Technology and Decentralized Governance: Is the State Still Necessary?

Planning and transformation: learning from the post-apartheid experience

Urban growth and strategic spatial planning in Johannesburg, South Africa

The paper provides an overview of urbanization patterns and trends in the current era in South Africa, focusing in particular on the key dynamics and driving forces underlying migration and urbanization. It considers overall demographic trends with regard to migration and urbanization, and points to some of the difficulties with data, and with the analysis of trends and patterns. The paper explores the changing rural context and dynamics, and some of the significant processes in this context: large-scale displacement of black people off farms, the impact of land reform, and conditions in the former homeland areas. Circular migration continues to be an important way in which households in rural areas survive, but some are unable to move, and are falling out of these networks. International migration—the consequence of both conditions in the home country and the draw of the South African economy—is another significant process fuelling mainly urban growth. The paper demonstrates the importance of cities in terms of economic growth and employment, and thus their attractiveness to migrants. Continuing migration to cities is of course a challenge for city management, but important trends towards declining household size and the splitting up of households are also driving the physical growth of cities and demands for housing, services, and infrastructure.

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Contemporary South African Urbanization Dynamics

Spatial inequalities and policies in South Africa: place-based or people-centred?

https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/jspui/bitstream/10539/11659/1/TodesA%20Beyond%20master%20planning1-s2.0-S0197397509001003-main.pdf

Alison Todes

Papers

Planning and transformation: learning from the post-apartheid experience

Urban growth and strategic spatial planning in Johannesburg, South Africa

Contemporary South African Urbanization Dynamics

Spatial inequalities and policies in South Africa: place-based or people-centred?

Beyond master planning? New approaches to spatial planning in Ekurhuleni, South Africa