Keijser, Anaïs-Marie de (2019)
Urban Justice in Service Provision: Household water access and disposal in Bujumbura, Burundi.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
Household access to- and disposal of- water is one of the main building blocks of a well functioning society. Sadly, these services remain absent, unaffordable, or of inadequate quality for many of the world’s urban populations. This is the case for many households of Bujumbura, where service provision is not as much a question of passive reception as one of active co-provision. Households are actively involved in finding ways to extend the service, creating alternatives, and developing coping strategies through which they try to ensure water can be accessed and disposed off adequately. Without this active involvement of households the state through its public utilities would be unable to reliably provide these services to the city’s urban population. Numerous factors have become challenges in the provision of public services. This includes: the pollution of the resource and the environment; high levels of poverty relating to affordability of provided services; and a high degree of infrastructure failures. Within this context, the concept of system-D describes fend-for-yourself approaches that have become crucial in the provision of such services. Planners working in such contexts have to understand such processes in the working of urban systems, as well as the ethical implications they carry. Based on the assumed need for a normative ethical approach to planning this work engages with urban justice debate through an analytical framework developed by a post-colonial translation of the Susan Fainstein’s (2010) Just City concept. Through this analytical framework a multi-scalar analysis seeks to evaluate equity, diversity, and democracy in the case of household water access and disposal in Bujumbura. In addition, through an ‘Ordinary City’ framing the empirical insights from the case study feed back into the urban justice debates, presenting a process of translation and an innovation to the Just City concept. Finally the work proposes action-oriented recommendations that can contribute in steering the ethical development of these services; such as small-scale investments into storage tanks at key facilities (such as local health centers) or intorducing the use of appropriate technologies to facilitate water transportation for households (such as the Hippo Water Roller).
Typ des Eintrags: | Dissertation | ||||||||
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Erschienen: | 2019 | ||||||||
Autor(en): | Keijser, Anaïs-Marie de | ||||||||
Art des Eintrags: | Erstveröffentlichung | ||||||||
Titel: | Urban Justice in Service Provision: Household water access and disposal in Bujumbura, Burundi | ||||||||
Sprache: | Englisch | ||||||||
Referenten: | Rudolph-Cleff, Prof. Dr. Annette ; Uğur, Prof. Dr. Lauren | ||||||||
Publikationsjahr: | 2 Mai 2019 | ||||||||
Ort: | Darmstadt | ||||||||
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: | 16 Juli 2018 | ||||||||
URL / URN: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/8578 | ||||||||
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | Household access to- and disposal of- water is one of the main building blocks of a well functioning society. Sadly, these services remain absent, unaffordable, or of inadequate quality for many of the world’s urban populations. This is the case for many households of Bujumbura, where service provision is not as much a question of passive reception as one of active co-provision. Households are actively involved in finding ways to extend the service, creating alternatives, and developing coping strategies through which they try to ensure water can be accessed and disposed off adequately. Without this active involvement of households the state through its public utilities would be unable to reliably provide these services to the city’s urban population. Numerous factors have become challenges in the provision of public services. This includes: the pollution of the resource and the environment; high levels of poverty relating to affordability of provided services; and a high degree of infrastructure failures. Within this context, the concept of system-D describes fend-for-yourself approaches that have become crucial in the provision of such services. Planners working in such contexts have to understand such processes in the working of urban systems, as well as the ethical implications they carry. Based on the assumed need for a normative ethical approach to planning this work engages with urban justice debate through an analytical framework developed by a post-colonial translation of the Susan Fainstein’s (2010) Just City concept. Through this analytical framework a multi-scalar analysis seeks to evaluate equity, diversity, and democracy in the case of household water access and disposal in Bujumbura. In addition, through an ‘Ordinary City’ framing the empirical insights from the case study feed back into the urban justice debates, presenting a process of translation and an innovation to the Just City concept. Finally the work proposes action-oriented recommendations that can contribute in steering the ethical development of these services; such as small-scale investments into storage tanks at key facilities (such as local health centers) or intorducing the use of appropriate technologies to facilitate water transportation for households (such as the Hippo Water Roller). |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-85787 | ||||||||
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): | 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 720 Architektur | ||||||||
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 15 Fachbereich Architektur 15 Fachbereich Architektur > Fachgruppe E: Stadtplanung 15 Fachbereich Architektur > Fachgruppe E: Stadtplanung > Entwerfen und Stadtentwicklung 15 Fachbereich Architektur > Fachgruppe E: Stadtplanung > Planen und Bauen in außereuropäischen Regionen 15 Fachbereich Architektur > Fachgruppe E: Stadtplanung > Raum- und Infrastrukturplanung |
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Hinterlegungsdatum: | 19 Mai 2019 19:55 | ||||||||
Letzte Änderung: | 22 Jul 2021 15:57 | ||||||||
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Referenten: | Rudolph-Cleff, Prof. Dr. Annette ; Uğur, Prof. Dr. Lauren | ||||||||
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung / Verteidigung / mdl. Prüfung: | 16 Juli 2018 | ||||||||
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