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Cet article analyse les défis et déficits de planification et de gestion urbaine à Port-au-Prince au regard de quelques-unes des caractéristiques de son histoire, son cadre réglementaire, institutionnel, politique et social dont le point culminant est la catastrophe générée par le séisme de 2010. Il analyse également les stratégies de reconstruction développées par de multiples acteurs dans un contexte d'incertitude juridique, institutionnelle et économique. Notre hypothèse de départ est que la crise urbaine de l'agglomération de Port-au-Prince a des racines profondes qui datent du XIXème siècle et que l'action non coordonnée des organisations internationales et des ONG après le séisme, au lieu d'aider à la surmonter, a plutôt contribué à l'approfondir en reproduisant les déficits de gouvernance urbaine qui ont caractérisé cette agglomération, ainsi que les pratiques d'occupation territoriale désarticulées des processus de planification urbaine à long terme pour réduire les risques et la vulnérabilité au milieu urbain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Toronto's pursuit of urban sport development over the past two decades signals the increasing embracement of a disconcerting form of entrepreneurial urbanism. Tracing the shift in governing models from Toronto's failed 1996 Olympic bid, through the 2008 Olympic bid, and finally to the recent hosting of the 2015 Pan American Games, I argue that there has been an alarming erosion of the role of the public in the mega event bidding process. The heated public debate and democratic demands that once defined Toronto's bid efforts have been steadily neutralized by new governing arrangements that continue to foreclose opportunities for political dissent. La planification des mégaévénements sportifs à Toronto : de la demande démocratique à une carence démocratique Les efforts consacrés par Toronto au développement d'activités sportives en milieu urbain au cours des deux dernières décennies révèlent une orientation de plus en plus marquée vers un mode troublant d'urbanisme entrepreneurial. Un portrait du changement dans les modèles de gouvernance est dressé à partir de la tentative ratée d'obtenir les Jeux olympiques de 1996 à Toronto, en passant par sa candidature olympique de 2008, jusqu'à la tenue récente des Jeux panaméricains de 2015. Il est inquiétant de constater à quel point les instances publiques se désintéressent du processus de dépôt de candidature à l'organisation d'un mégaévénement. Le débat public houleux et les revendications démocratiques qui accompagnaient les dépôts de candidature de Toronto dans le passé ont été graduellement neutralisés par de nouvelles mesures de gouvernance qui excluent l'expression de dissidence politique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents original research on relations between middle-class residents and informal-sector workers in Delhi, India. It shows how middle-class associations used their consumption preferences as well as relationships with local authorities to legitimize the work of street hawkers and waste workers. These findings suggest that the toleration of informality can be traced to governance regimes comprised of both state and non-state powerbrokers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Spadina Expressway controversy in Toronto, Ontario, was sparked by a proposal to run an expressway into the heart of the city. The dispute was part of a broader movement against high modernist planning that swept American and Canadian cities in the 1960s and 1970s. Frustrated by unresponsive politicians and civic officials, citizen activists challenged authorities with an alternate vision for cities that prioritized the safeguarding of the urban environment by preserving communities, preventing environmental degradation, and promoting public transit. By the latter half of the 1960s, citizen activists were no longer fighting alone, as some politicians and civil servants also turned against more traditional modes of city planning. This politicization of urban planning and transportation schemes culminated in the defeat of expressway networks in cities across Canada and the United States, including the Spadina Expressway in 1971. A landmark decision and important precursor to the municipal reform movement that would follow, the legacy of the Spadina episode was nevertheless mixed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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GIS technologies have developed rapidly in urban China, particularly within local governments, over the past decade. However, such GIS practices in non-Western contexts have not been investigated in depth. The present study attempts to address this gap, drawing on insights from critical GIS and political economy. Scholarship in critical GIS has underlined the importance of power relations in constituting organizational GIS practices, and vice versa. Moreover, perspectives from scalar politics and network analysis provide a useful way to delineate and analyse the spatialized social relations shaping and embedded in GIS constructions. In particular, scaled networks conceptualize social connections and power relations in terms of networks of actors embedded in different spatial extents; within this synthesized framework, we contend, local government organizations serve as both sites and nodes in developing and employing GIS. Through an in-depth case study of the city of Shenzhen, we investigate in what ways both territorial conditions and interrelations across organizational and city boundaries influence governmental GIS development. Such an investigation helps to politicize the constructions of GIS in China's changing urban governance, which will contribute to ongoing discussions in critical GIS aimed at understanding the mutual constitution of GIS and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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