Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: Build environment

  • Four urban conditions of vibrant city life and reflection on megaprojects

    Assuming the bellow showed Jacobs´ urban conditions of vibrant city life and that urban megraprojects tend to make urban spaces more homogenous due to the concentration of a particular service or user profile, do megaprojects kill vibrant city life in a long term? Jacobs argues that vibrant activity can only flourish in cities when the physical…

  • “Local Social perception of a mining artificial lake in Spain” my abstract for the next European Sociological Association conference in Prague

    The construction of a large scale power plant in the town of As Pontes in the late seventies and the associated influx of new workers would definitely change a place that by that time was not far from many others villages that form the most genuine rural Galicia. The closure of the adjacent opencast coalmine…

  • Max Lock Centre at University of Westminster

    Judging by the research projects they carry out on urban studies as well as their approach, I find this research centre very interesting. I hope to follow them up. Find bellow the general description from their website: The Max Lock Centre is an international development research and consultancy group based in the Faculty of Architecture…