نتایج جستجو برای: megaproject

تعداد نتایج: 159  

2008
Brent D. Ryan

This paper examines the dramatic changes to city block morphology that occurred during the 20th century in Detroit, MI, USA. The study area is comprised of four square miles (10.4 km) of downtown Detroit. The paper measures the amount and causes of city block frontage change between the years 1896 and 2002, and finds that 37% of Detroit’s 1896 city block frontage was removed by 2002. Only 50% o...

2013
Angela Hof

Financial capitalism has driven profound changes in urban land use patterns in Majorca, at the Balearic Islands (Spain). This archipelago is a major tourist destination located in the Mediterranean basin, with 4,492 km 2 of surface area, 1,113,114 inhabitants and 12,316,399 tourists (2011), of whom 29.9% came from Germany, 24% from the UK and 19% from the rest of Spain. Neoliberal state regulat...

Journal: :Environmental science & technology 2015
Jorge A Huete-Pérez Pedro J J Alvarez Jerald L Schnoor Bruce E Rittmann Anthony Clayton Maria L Acosta Carlos E M Bicudo Mary T K Arroyo Michael T Brett Victor M Campos Hernan Chaimovich Blanca Jimenez-Cisneros Alan Covich Luiz D Lacerda Jean-Michel Maes Julio C Miranda Salvador Montenegro-Guillén Manuel Ortega-Hegg Gerald R Urquhart Katherine Vammen Luis Zambrano

Seeking economic growth and job creation to tackle the nation's extreme poverty, the Nicaraguan government awarded a concession to build an interoceanic canal and associated projects to a recently formed Hong Kong based company with no track record or related expertise. This concession was awarded without a bidding process and in advance of any feasibility, socio-economic or environmental impac...

2015
Raymond E. Levitt W. Richard Scott

Megaprojects are very large, complex projects requiring new, and often previously untested, management skills and techniques for their successful implementation. Multibillion-dollar projects have become the norm for many infrastructure and resource extraction facilities worldwide over the last decade. However, increased size and scope do not necessarily transform a large project into a “megapro...

Journal: :Policy and Society 2023

Abstract The paper aims to add the debate on varieties of neoliberalism and homogenizing effects megaproject-based urban development. It examines acculturation growth imperative as master discourse that supports development implementation two projects aimed at transforming centers Tampere, Finland, Łódź, Poland. selected cities shared similar traits industrial in past, but their current socioec...

Journal: :International Journal of Project Management 2021

This research explores the formation and evolution of organisational architecture in megaprojects. We introduce Project System Organisation (PSO) conceptual framework, which charts megaproject organising, from intra- to inter-organisational design, ultimately system-level design. The PSO identifies multiple evolving actors across multi-level multi-layer system defines four roles often used labe...

Journal: :Antipode 2021

In this paper, we show how communities in Northern Kenya proactively engage an unfolding megaproject and the temporalities it evokes—the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). We argue that latitude have contending with megaprojects is broader more dynamic than passive reception of or outright resistance against futures promised. By introducing concepts entangling fraying,...

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