'Exploring the development and implementation of co-produced water management infrastructure solutions to adapt to climate change-related risk: The intersection of rural-urban areas in Medellin, Colombia' (2020-22, British Academy)As we initiate fieldwork activities in the three case-study neighbourhoods in Medellín (El Faro in Comuna 8, and Bello Oriente and San José la Cima 2 in Comuna 3), a first point of contact has been a presentation of the project’s proposed activities and timefram...| Global Urban Collab
By Caroline Knowles * Original blogpost found at: https://urbanmorph.medium.com/water-management-on-the-periphery-of-medellin-colombia-9e2b682a935d Marita stomps into the meeting at the community centre in Bello Oriente in pattered wellies. She is flushed from the climb and from arguing with city authorities over the closure of the school. The school needs repairs. The landowner won’t do them because he only owns the land, not the school. The city authority owns the school but refuses to pa...| Global Urban Collab
As the implementation of the 'Laboratory of appropriate technologies for the strengthening of community autonomies in Water and Risk Management in three Medellín Neighbourhoods’ continues, the following videos have been produced as to socialise the coproduction process that has been taking place in the territories of the three selected case study neighbourhoods (El Faro in Comuna 8, and Bello Oriente and San José la Cima 2 in Comuna 3), particularly showcasing the workshops that have take...| Global Urban Collab
'Exploring the development and implementation of co-produced water management infrastructure solutions to adapt to climate change-related risk: The intersection of rural-urban areas in Medellin, Colombia' (2020-22, British Academy) The research teams in Colombia have advanced in the implementation of the ‘Laboratory of appropriate technologies for the strengthening of community autonomies in Water and Risk Management’ strategy, having finalised ‘Module 1: Diagnosis’ and initiated ‘M...| Global Urban Collab
This Summer 2021, the research team undertaking the ESRC and CONACYT jointly funded project 'Developing co-created smart city solutions for managed adaptation and monitoring of hydro-meteorological climate change related risk in Mexico' hosted a series of workshops with the Secretaría de Gestión Integral de Riesgos y Protección Civil (SGIRPC) (Dirección General de Análisis de Riesgos; Dirección General Táctico Operativa), and Dirección General de Servicios Urbanos, and Unidad de Prote...| Global Urban Collab
'Exploring the development and implementation of co-produced water management infrastructure solutions to adapt to climate change-related risk: The intersection of rural-urban areas in Medellin, Colombia' While Covid-19 has impacted the project's timeline and delayed fieldwork activities, the Colombian and UK research teams have continued to make progress in the preliminary stages of the project, developing a review of the theoretical context and preparing for fieldwork once restrictions allow a| Global Urban Collab
ESRC and CONACYT jointly-funded research project 'Developing co-created smart city solutions for managed adaptation and monitoring of hydro-meteorological climate change related risk in Mexico' The two communities that are collaborating with us and co-creating solutions for the adaptation and mitigation of flood risk in Mexico City are: La Colmena-Ermita Zaragoza in Iztapalapa, and Pensador Mexicano (Peñón de los Baños) in Venustiano Carranza. In these two communities we had collaboration ...| Global Urban Collab
For vulnerable communities to be more resilient to climate change risk, smart city authorities recognise that citizens have to play a more prominent role. Some authors suggest that ‘smart citizens’ need to be cultivated and exert agency to address the issues that governments and tech companies attempt to mitigate (Bull & Azennoud, 2016; Frigerio et al., 2018). In other words, people must be willing to adapt to and live in smart cities. The idea of a smart citizen appears to be a way to br...| Global Urban Collab
ESRC and CONACYT jointly-funded research project 'Developing co-created smart city solutions for managed adaptation and monitoring of hydro-meteorological climate change related risk in Mexico' Back in Spring 2020, as we were to begin our fieldwork in La Colmena y El Peñon -two communities experiencing flooding risk challenges in Mexico City - the global outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown measures made us adapt our research project and re-design our methodology. We needed to priori...| Global Urban Collab
Salam Mare’e - 2018 While realizing the alterations occurring to public spaces in contemporary cities, this project explored the ‘privatisation’ of public spaces in the city of Amman, Jordan. Public space is one of the essential components that form cities. Not only does it contribute to shaping the urban fabric of built environments, but it also defines the social life that occurs within it. A major issue that has been a concentration of discussion over the last two decades is the priv...| Global Urban Collab
Rapid urbanisation in the Global South has generated the growth of unplanned informal areas on the peripheries of cities. These areas tend to be exposed to a range of environmental risks, low access to public services and transport, lack of resources and fulfilment of basic needs. Therefore, these informal peripheries are particularly exposed to Covid-19 risks, which are emphasising and sharpening existing inequalities and exposing vulnerabilities of communities in informal settlements. The majo| Global Urban Collab
Climate Resilient Housing – Building and living sustainably in informal settlements. - Kajsa Leon-Lilja| Global Urban Collab