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    Control the capital: cities and political dominance

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2020
    As optimism about the ‘third wave’ of democratisation has waned in the face of continued and renewed authoritarianism across the world, analyses of authoritarian dominance remain focused primarily on the national scale.
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    Seeing political settlements through the city: A framework for comparative analysis of urban transformation

    Wiley Online Library, 2018
    This article presents a new analytical framework for studying cities in the developing world based on the ‘political settlements’ approach. This has a dual purpose: to enrich comparative urban research by bringing new theoretical ideas to bear on this field, but also to use capital cities as a lens to better understand national political settlements.
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    Community approach and institutional support in urban areas

    Solidarités International, 2017
    In the months that following the 2010 earthquake, the humanitarian community faced limits and challenges, which triggered reflections and discussions on intervention in such densely populated urban areas. A reorientation of the actions of NGOs was necessary so that they fit into an overall urban approach.
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    Risk-related resettlement and relocation in urban areas

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2017
    This CDKN Essentials summarises recommendations on the appropriateness of, and best practices for, urban resettlement and relocation as a response to disaster risk.
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    Citizen participation and the rise of the Open Source City in Spain 

    IT for Change, 2017
    In the public sector, Spain has made big efforts not to lag behind digital leaders in terms of public e-readiness and e-government, but the country's economic and political frameworks have dragged it downwards in global Networked Readiness rankings.
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    Gender roles and opportunities for women in urban environments

    Applied Knowledge Services, 2016
    Women are becoming the majority in urban areas, and many more people now live in female-headed households, representing a significant shift in gender roles and relations. This GSDRC helpdesk research report examines the literature to tell us about different gender roles and opportunities for women in urban environments, compared to rural.
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    Zimbabwe’s changing urban landscape

    Department for International Development, UK, 2017
    The definition of which settlements count as ‘urban’ in Zimbabwe is complex, creating uncertainty regarding the extent and nature of urbanisation.
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    Ageing and the city: making urban spaces work for older people

    HelpAge International, 2016
    Today, more than half of the world’s population live in cities, with this proportion set to rise to two-thirds by 2050. The global population is also ageing rapidly, with the numbers of people aged over 60 set to pass the 1 billion mark over the next decade. A significant and growing number of the world’s urban residents are older people – more than 500 million.
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    Peri-urban water security: an agenda for water governance

    Water Security in Peri-Urban South Asia, 2013
    Water governance needs to mainstream peri­-urban water security.  As cities grow, policy makers and planners focus onmeeting the needs of  urban populations. This happens at the expense of the peri-urban and the rural. For instance, it is very common to divert physical flows of water from villages to cities.
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    Accessibility, transportation cost and regional growth: a case study for Egypt

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2016
    The potential ability of transport infrastructure investments to produce transport benefits depends on the travel time reductions and accessibility. In this paper, the authors use an interregional computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to estimate the economic impacts of transportation cost change due specifically to changes in accessibility induced by new transportation projects.

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