From problematisation to propositionality: Advancing southern urban infrastructure debates

Advancing Research Infrastructure Using OpenStack

Cloud computing, which evolved from grid computing, virtualisation and automation, has a potential to deliver a variety of services to the end user via the Internet. Using the Web to deliver Infrastructure, Software and Platform as a Service (SaaS/PaaS) has benefits of reducing the cost of investment in internal resources of an organisation. It also provides greater flexibility and scalability ...

Bioethics in Germany: debates and infrastructure.

In Germany the public awareness on ethical problems of the application of medicine and life sciences on human beings is very high. It can be observed that German Society is rather sensitive concerning bioethical issues. Politics supports this attitude. Many articles in professional journals as well as in newspapers cover bioethical issues. Conferences and workshops on a professional and an educ...

Untangling ‘Integration’ in Urban Development Policy Debates

Urban integration is seemingly on the lips of all involved with urban development in South Africa. One can be forgiven for thinking it is the magic bullet that will resolve the many intractable problems that mark South Africa’s cities. Urban integration is the core idea that underpins the unfolding Urban Renewal Strategy of the government. The notion emerges strongly in the recently published D...

Urban Infrastructure and Morphosis

Financing Green Urban Infrastructure

This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved. Cities are key investors in infrastructure with green potential, such as buildings, transport, water and waste. Their main revenue sources, such as...