Rachel Keeton

Rachel Keeton
University of Twente | UT · Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management (PGM)

PhD

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Introduction
Rachel Keeton, MSc, PhD (b. 1984) is an urban researcher specialized in contemporary urbanization processes across Africa. She is co-editor of 'To Build a City in Africa: A History and a Manual' (nai010, 2019). Current research focuses on perceptions of climate change and their connection to migration decision-making processes in Ghana, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mali, and Thailand as part of the H2020-funded HABITABLE project.

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As global climate change intensifies, the question of what makes a place habitable or uninhabitable is critical, particularly in the context of a potential future climate outside the realm of lived experience, and the possible concurrent redistribution of populations partly associated with such climatic shifts. The concept of habitability holds the...
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As the impacts of climate change intensify globally, scholars and policymakers are increasingly interested in determining the factors that lead to the success or failure of climate adaptation strategies. This paper investigates the well-being outcomes of ex-pastoralists in northern Kenya who have migrated to towns in response to severe droughts. Fo...
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The game offers practitioners an easy and affordable tool to discuss the main values of spatial justice and the challenges connected to them.
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This is the introduction to the book To Build a City in Africa: A History and a Manual (INTI & Nai010 2019). It gives an overview of contemporary planned cities (New Towns) across the African continent, including endemic spatial challenges and emerging opportunities.
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New Towns in development across Africa are overwhelmingly designed according to twentieth-century planning models ranging from functionalist Chinese grids to American gated communities. Contemporary African New Towns based on these models are often unable to adapt to stimuli and, as a result, exacerbate both spatial and ecological challenges. The o...
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In the West, the design of new towns has always been based on an ideal model in accordance with the ideas of that moment. In the case of the latest generation of new towns in Asia, however, only quantitative and marketing principles seem to play a role: the number of square metres, dwellings or people, or the greenest, most beautiful or most techno...
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Exploring City ranking system, city indicators and best practices of sustainable urban development. This was an assignment from the municipality of Almere, the City Manifest 2.01, the province Flevoland and the Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment. Research by Urgenda, TU Delft, Drift-Eur and Inti.

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