Impact Initiative - Livelihoods: Recent submissions
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Poverty, participation and aerial cable-cars: a case study of Medellín, Colombia.
(2011)Introduction This paper reflects on partial results of an on-going research project seeking to learn systematically from a set of public transport and urban upgrading interventions fostered by the local government of ... -
Murder capital to modern miracle? The progression of governance in Medellin, Colombia
(2012)The most violent city in the world only twenty years ago, Medellín, Colombia is now a beacon of progressive urban development. Governance and structuration theory provide an analytical framework through which three stages ... -
Impacto del Sistema de Cable Aéreo (Metrocable) Sobre la Accesibilidad en la Comuna #1 de Medellín
(2011)La ciudad de Medellín inauguró en el año 1995 un sistema de Metro, sin embargo en el año 2004 todavía existían algunas zonas de la ciudad con problemas de transporte. Este es el caso de la comuna #1 de Medellín, la cual ... -
Transport, Urban Development and the Peripheral Poor in Colombia: Placing Splintering Urbanism in the Context of Transport Networks
(2013)In rapidly growing cities the evolution of utility and communication infrastructures has enabled the creation of ‘premium networked spaces’ exclusively for wealthier groups thus deepening already large social inequalities. ... -
Aerial Cable-car Systems for Public Transport in Low-income Urban Areas: Lessons from Medellin, Colombia
(2011)In 2004 the first urban aerial cable-car public transport system was introduced in the city of Medellín, Colombia. The imaginative application of ski-slope technology to high-gradient, low-income urban areas attracted ...