An Urban Monitor as support for a participative management of developing cities

Repetti, Alexandre; Prélaz-Droux, R.

doi:10.1016/s0197-3975(03)00010-9

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“…Such situations require a coordinated diagnosis to identify points of agreement among stakeholders concerning the problem definition, and to create shared awareness of the problem to be resolved. This demands a better understanding of the local stakeholders' social and organizational frameworks and systems, including their strategies and concerns (Repetti and Pré laz-Droux, 2003).…”

Section: Participatory Diagnosis For Urban Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory diagnosis in urban planning: Proposal for a learning process based on geographical information

Joerin

Desthieux

Beuze

et al. 2009

Journal of Environmental Management

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Section: Participatory Diagnosis For Urban Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory diagnosis in urban planning: Proposal for a learning process based on geographical information

Joerin

Desthieux

Beuze

et al. 2009

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Thus, land-use planning and management involves a wide variety of stakeholders. The reality of the urban management of Thies bears evidence of the limits of planners to manage a fast growing city (Repetti and Prélaz-Droux 2003). Lack of information and technical skills to prepare the decisions, as well as of the means to implement them, lack of knowledge and coordination between the actors, administrative services (technical) squeezed between the central State and the decentralized authorities and mostly confining themselves to the management of their current business, are some of the reasons that can explain this situation.…”

Section: Thies Senegalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At a more detailed level, decision makers make their management decisions on the basis of the information they have about the land realities and about the numerous stakeholders' initiatives. In most developing cities, this information is poor and results in management and communication failures (Repetti and Prélaz-Droux 2003).…”

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Land Management with the SMURF Planning Support System

Soutter

Repetti

2009

The GeoJournal Library

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Population growth, rapid urbanisation trends, climate change, ageing infrastructure, globalisation, emerging technologies, consumer involvement, energy use and costs, geo-political changes, changing patterns of land use, changes in the hydrological cycle, et cetera , are all important symptoms of global change. Core problems and negative impacts of global change have become increasingly visible and impact both on people and the environment, in developed and developing countries. In many respects, land management and planning need to be much more adaptive than they have been in the past. Cities and regions all over the world are confronted with an accelerated pace of changes that affects almost all aspects of land management. The need for instruments or systems to support planning at a strategic level is considerable. The approach presented in this chapter has potential applications that go far beyond its original context. BackgroundWest African mid-sized cities, as in many other parts of the under-developed world, are characterized by a rapid population growth and a lack of financial and human resources, which badly limits the working capacity of public authorities (Sawadogo 2002). This results in often anarchic urbanization and extensive development problems: economic weakness and increasing informal economies, infrastructure in limited quantity and often dilapidated, insufficient access to basic services, high poverty rate and growth of squatter settlements (slums),

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“…In order to analyze and control the complexity, cities are often conceived as a dynamic and complex systems, ecosystems (Tjallingii, 1993;Newman, 1999;Naveh 2000; van Kamp et al, 2003) or auto-organizing systems (Repetti and Prélaz-Droux, 2003), made of inputs from its environment, of metabolic interaction betweens its subsystems, and of outputs to the environment.…”

Section: Urban Managementmentioning

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“…The city has obtained methodological support from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and from ENDA-TW 7 (Repetti and Prélaz-Droux, 2003).…”

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A Relational Indicatorset Model for urban land-use planning and management: Methodological approach and application in two case studies

Repetti

Desthieux

2006

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Urban land-use planning and management are in constant mutation throughout the world. With sustainability as the goal, the use of indicators for land auditing and monitoring is becoming more and more in demand.Classical approaches elaborate core sets of indicators by picking the most relevant elements in exhaustive lists. More recently, a few structured research approaches consider the set of indicators as a whole, following the concepts of systemics, and so highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the sets.Starting from the principle that the relevance of an indicator is due not only to its intrinsic qualities, but also to its placement and relationships with the other indicators in the collection, this paper proposes a systemic method, named Relational Indicatorset Model (RIM), for the elaboration of a set of indicators for management support.The RIM method starts with the a priori definitions of the goals and users' purpose (RIM-objectives), and then chooses indicators to reflect the objectives on representing the distribution of indicators in a relational graph (RIM graph). The graph modeling allows analyzing the match between the indicatorset and the defined objectives, as well as the interrelationships between the indicators. The analysis is made easier by breaking down the RIM graph following two projections: the first one (RIM-4D) highlights the distribution of the indicators in a multidimensional graph with respect to the objectives; the second one (RIM-IR) focuses on the interrelationships and offers the possibility of formalizing the causal interactions and the aggregational relationships between the indicators, following a qualitative approach.The RIM is applied to the design of sets of spatial and non-spatial indicators for the cities of Thies (Senegal) and of Geneva (Switzerland) to emphasize the potential of the method. It opens up interesting possibilities for application to all sets of indicators for sustainable land-use development. It also contributes to the creation of observatories for city management, instruments used to monitor and control the urban sustainable development.

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An Urban Monitor as support for a participative management of developing cities

Cited by 18 publications

References 3 publications

Participatory diagnosis in urban planning: Proposal for a learning process based on geographical information

Participatory diagnosis in urban planning: Proposal for a learning process based on geographical information

Land Management with the SMURF Planning Support System

A Relational Indicatorset Model for urban land-use planning and management: Methodological approach and application in two case studies

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