Giuseppe Faldi

Université Libre de Bruxelles | ULB · Faculty of Architecture (La Cambre-Horta)

Co-production of water and sanitation services, especially in the global South, implies that recipients of a service play a fundamental role in managing water resources. In the context of citizen–government synergies, service recipients are more than consumers, and (co)-production alters their involvement in the service production process, with res...

Co-production of water and sanitation services has become a widely discussed option for equitable and efficient service delivery, especially for cities of the Global South. Theoretical conceptualizations of service co-production mainly refer to the public management and governance dimension, while the techno-environmental and spatial dimensions are...

This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutio...

This special issue investigates the role of technology in the co-production of urban services through six empirical articles based on case-studies from Asia, Africa and South America. This topic has not received yet extensive attention in the literature, despite the emergence of technology as the key mediator between the material and immaterial ele...

This study questions the processes of technical and governance hybridisation in the coproduction of water services in cities of the Global South. The existing literature addresses the compensatory role that water services coproduction plays in urban and peri-urban areas, where access to centralised and reliable water resources is often lacking. How...

Face à un réseau conventionnel défaillant, les habitants des villes éthiopiennes ont recours à des systèmes alternatifs pour se procurer de l’eau potable. Cet article met en lumière la multiplicité des stratégies déployées, individuelles ou collectives suivant les contextes urbains.

In the face of the ever-evolving and emerging urban, environmental and socioeconomic transformations of Africa cities, a growing body of literature advocates for new attitudes towards urban planning theory and practices. Within this frame, place-based approaches are a recurring trope vested with the bivalent capacity to challenge the preconceptions...

The article contributes to the debate on the sustainable provision of water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in Global South cities by developing a comprehensive understanding of the concept of sustainability when applied to the analysis of WSS co-production in these contexts. The study moves from the hypothesis that an integrated conceptualiza...

In recent years there has been growing recognition that people’s vulnerability is not just as an outcome of possible climate impacts, but rather a dynamic contextual characteristic of a socio-ecological system. Accordingly, along with the acknowledgement of the close connection between climate change adaptation and sustainable development, the scie...

L’adattamento al Cambiamento Climatico (CC) si è ormai imposto negli ultimi anni come tematica sempre più ricorrente e rilevante nelle iniziative di cooperazione nelle città del global South. Il presente contributo muove dall’assunto che la pianificazione dell’adattamento non debba essere solo finalizzata alla riduzione dei possibili impatti del CC...

The study assumes that planning for Climate Change (CC) adaptation in urban areas should not seek exclusively to reduce the potential impacts of CC, but should also identify transformative social projects oriented to sustainability. By focusing on scenario analysis methods, which are increasingly used in adaptation planning to cope with the growing...

This chapter is part of a project that aims to identify climate change vulnerability scenarios for the inhabitants of Dar es Salaam’s coastal areas, with specific reference to the phenomenon of seawater intrusion. The rapid urbanization that has taken place in Dar es Salaam over the past 20 years has resulted in a significant increase in anthropoge...

Planning for climate change adaptation in urban contexts is a major challenge due to increasing levels of future uncertainty, closely related to the complexity of socio-economic and environmental systems, and to the difficulty in predicting climate impacts. This challenge is even more pronounced in the sub-Saharan cities. These are more exposed to...

La ricerca assume che per definire modelli di pianificazione e gestione dei territori metropolitani capaci di contribuire all’adattamento al cambiamento climatico (CC) sia necessaria una analisi contestualizzata della relazione tra dinamiche insediative ed effetti attesi del CC. Nello specifico di Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), tale relazione prende la...

Urban adaptation to climate change is a field of growing interest in spatial planning and it is especially concerned with ways to cope with uncertainty inherent in regional downscaling of global prediction and, overall, in the response of the city to change. The paper presents the results of several research studies conducted in Dar es Salaam, Tanz...

Lo studio assume che la pianificazione dell’adattamento al cambiamento climatico (CC) nei contesti urbani non debba essere esclusivamente finalizzata a ridurre i possibili impatti del CC, ma debba anche interessarsi alla definizione di un progetto futuro di trasformazione della società e del territorio verso più ampi obiettivi di sostenibilità. Con...