Repositioning the state's role through water politics in Mexico City's informal settlements

Guillem Ramírez Chico — 2018-03-27T05:00:00Z

Throughout the Mexico City metropolitan area, the struggle for water access often defines the relationship (or lack thereof) between municipal governments and residents. Guillem Ramirez Chico delineates the distinctive local politics of water provision in three of the area's informal settlements, asserting that poor households are frequently left vulnerable in the name of environmental conservation.
In Mexico City, water is used as a political tool to get political support, through client

- From the Field / local government, water, settlements, state, informality, Mexico, informal housing, water access, water politics, informal settlements, state-free spaces, Mexico City

Settlement policy in Israel. Transforming Jerusalem's contested metropolitan landscape

Marco Allegra — 2012-09-12T04:55:00Z

In Jerusalem, competition for land is central to the ongoing conflict. Marco Allegra shows how ideology can be less effective than planning policy in transforming a contested territory.
Israel's settlement policy – the settlement of tens of thousands of Israeli Jews in occupied Palestinian territory since 1967 – has transformed the material, social and symbolic space of Jerusalem, with the ultimate goal of including the eastern periphery of the city in a larger “Jewish Jerusalem”. Considering

- Essays / urban planning, Palestine, Jerusalem, conflict, settlements, Israel

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Repositioning the state's role through water politics in Mexico City's informal settlements

Settlement policy in Israel. Transforming Jerusalem's contested metropolitan landscape