Adriana Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adriana Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adriana |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6215-5962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How Do We Learn Now? Pluralising Urban Pedagogies in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Since 2020, pedagogues and learners in the field of urban planning and practice have rapidly responded to new demands and realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These have included shifting the modes and sites of learning from classrooms to screens, developing new programmes to build urgently required local capacities, fostering partnerships and platforms that sustain remote ways of learning together, and facilitating multi-sensorial and inclu…
Crafting urban equality through grassroots critical pedagogies
How do ordinary citizens, activists and urban practitioners learn to become agents of change for a socially just habitat? The paper explores this question through the experiences of eight grassroots schools of popular urbanism working under the umbrella of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC) in Latin America. Building on a process of self-documentation and collective pedagogic reflection driven by the protagonists of these schools, the anal…
Navigating stigma through everyday city-making
Over the last two decades, a growing body of scholars from the fields of psychology, sociology, law and public health have devoted their attention to examining how and why stigma operates as a form of discrimination, paying particular attention to ethno-racially stigmatised groups. However, less attention has focused on how ordinary women and men engaged in peripheral urbanisation processes are stigmatised through multiple material, social and po…
Habitat International Coalition
How do global coalitions of civil society, non-governmental and community-based organisations, social movements and academics, make visible, defend and produce habitat rights? This conversation with the President of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC), Adriana Allen, examines HIC’s perspectives on the practices, knowledges and pedagogies for translocal housing activism through reflections structured along several themes. These include under…
Handbook of Global Urban Health
Does urbanization make emergence of zoonosis more likely? Evidence, myths and gaps
Rapid urbanization in the global South is adding epidemiological and nutritional challenges and increasing disease and health burdens for citizens. Greater movement of people, animals, food and trade often provides favourable grounds for the emergence of infectious diseases, including zoonoses. We conduct a rapid evidence scan to explore what is known and hypothesized about the links between urbanization and zoonosis emergence. This points to rap…
Participatory mapping and food‐centred justice in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Food vendors are pivotal in the local food system of most low‐income informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, despite being seen as an obstruction and as agents of disease and filth by city authorities. This paper explores the geography of these foodscapes – defined as public sites of food production and consumption – in selected low‐income settlements in Nairobi, focusing on the interaction of food vendors with their surrounding environment and i…
Mapping the Contradictions
Acknowledging that the relationship between resilience and environmental justice is complex, this chapter examines the tensions and contradictions arising between these two notions. Through a contextualised analysis of the institutional mapping practices, as well as those undertaken by inhabitants of two informal settlements on the periphery of Lima-Peru, it asks: what is to be made resilient? What from? With what consequences for environmental j…
Environmental Justice and Resilience in the Urban Global South
There has been a profusion of work since the turn of the last century exploring environmental justice in urban areas and resilience in cities of the Global South. These works have largely entailed the assumption of an a priori positive relationship between the two. In introducing this volume, we argue that a case-study approach based on empirical research is necessary in order to reveal the more complex ways in which the relationship between envi…
The Co-production of Water Justice in Latin American Cities
The concept of co-production implies that ‘citizens can play an active role in producing public goods and services of consequence to them’ by building upon existing local institutions and thereby reducing the scope for misappropriation of resources (Ostrom in World Development 24:1073–1087, 1996; Baland and Platteau in Halting degradation of natural resources: Is there arole for rural communities. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000). Based on …
Urban Resilience and Justice
The conclusion reflects on the theoretical, conceptual, methodological and empirical breadth of the contributing chapters and returns to the question outlined at the beginning of the book: what is the relationship, emerging connections and tensions between environmental justice and resilience in urban areas of the Global South? As explored throughout the chapters, in the face of environmental injustices, people develop survival strategies to cope…
Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South
This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities ar
Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South
This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities are more just cities. But what if the process of increasing the resilience of the city as a whole happens at the expense of the rights of certain groups? If urban resilience focuses on the degree to which cities are able to reorganise in creative ways …
Water trajectories through non-networked infrastructure
For many urbanites, infrastructural uncertainty refers to ‘predictable shocks’ rather than constituting a quotidian experience. By contrast, for the peri-urban poor, the sources of uncertainty underpinning water and sanitation services are endless: uncertainty about cost, about being evicted and indeed about ever becoming connected to networked systems.Drawing on a number of case studies, we argue that across the urban global south, the future is…
From state agencies to ordinary citizens
The understanding of linkages between disaster risk and urban development has seen important advances in recent decades. However, it falls short in addressing the production and reproduction of so-called urban “risk traps”, which are accumulation cycles of everyday risks and small-scale disasters with highly localized impacts, particularly on impoverished urban dwellers. Drawing on the action-research project cLIMA sin Riesgo, this paper examines…
Can participatory mapping activate spatial and political practices? Mapping popular resistance and dwelling practices in Bogotá eastern hills
Within the wider ongoing debate of P articipatory A ction R esearch, this paper interrogates the capacity of participatory mapping not just as a means to tap into plural knowledges over and emanating from specific geographies but rather to disrupt exclusionary constructions of space and place and the reproduction of the governing relationships that cause inequality. Focusing on a participatory mapping experience undertaken by the authors in colla…
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
Urban metabolism is the study of material flows through cities. Academics have recently acknowledged the use of the metaphor not only to conceptualize urban sustainability but also to evaluate it
Farmers, not gardeners
Sites of urban agriculture are often contested urban open spaces. In the current dominant ideal of the ‘competitive’ and ‘global’ city, little recognition is given to the potential benefits of urban agriculture, beyond beautification, subsistence or therapeutic purposes. In this context, urban agriculture is often viewed as an activity performed by ‘gardeners’, either contributing to individual well-being or reducing the costs of maintenance of p…
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Metabolism
The concept of urban metabolism, referring to the exchange processes that produce the urban environment, has inspired new ways of thinking about how cities can be made sustainable and has also raised criticisms about the specific social and economic arrangements in which some forms of flow are prioritized or marginalized within the city. This article explores how the concept of urban metabolism travels across disciplines, using a comparative anal…
Built-in resilience
Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots experiences of coping with extreme weather for reducing the vulnerability of the urban poor to climate change. This paper examines the household and community coping strategies used by low-income households living in Korail, the largest informal settlement in Dhaka. This includes how they use physical, economic and social means to reduce risk, reduce losses and facilitate recovery from flooding and…
Managing the health effects of climate change
The peri-urban water poor
Using the results of a comparative three-year research project in five metropolitan areas, this article reviews a range of practices in accessing water and sanitation by peri-urban poor residents and producers. It starts from the observation that neither centralized supply policies nor the market through, for example, large-scale profit-making enterprises are able to meet their needs. Although they are consumers insofar as they have no option but…
Environmental planning and management of the peri-urban interface
Although there is no consensus on the definition of the peri-urban interface, there is growing recognition among development professionals and institutions that rural and urban features tend increasingly to co-exist within cities and beyond their limits. There is also recognition that the urban–rural dichotomy that is deeply ingrained in planning systems is inadequate for dealing with processes of environmental and developmental change in the per…
Environmental planning and management of the peri-urban interface
Urban sustainability under threat
As a result of the internal and external reforms introduced in the last two decades in Argentina, as in most Latin American countries, urban-based manufacturing activities have experienced a dramatic process of restructuring, which has prompted new social and environmental conflicts. In a context where macro-economic strategies are resulting in long-term restructuring of production patterns and local conflicts, it is important to assess the susta…
Environmental planning and management of the peri-urban interface
Although there is no consensus on the definition of the peri-urban interface, there is growing recognition among development professionals and institutions that rural and urban features tend increasingly to co-exist within cities and beyond their limits. There is also recognition that the urban–rural dichotomy that is deeply ingrained in planning systems is inadequate for dealing with processes of environmental and developmental change in the per…
The peri-urban water poor
Using the results of a comparative three-year research project in five metropolitan areas, this article reviews a range of practices in accessing water and sanitation by peri-urban poor residents and producers. It starts from the observation that neither centralized supply policies nor the market through, for example, large-scale profit-making enterprises are able to meet their needs. Although they are consumers insofar as they have no option but…
Built-in resilience
Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots experiences of coping with extreme weather for reducing the vulnerability of the urban poor to climate change. This paper examines the household and community coping strategies used by low-income households living in Korail, the largest informal settlement in Dhaka. This includes how they use physical, economic and social means to reduce risk, reduce losses and facilitate recovery from flooding and…
Environmental planning and management of the peri-urban interface
Does urbanization make emergence of zoonosis more likely? Evidence, myths and gaps
Rapid urbanization in the global South is adding epidemiological and nutritional challenges and increasing disease and health burdens for citizens. Greater movement of people, animals, food and trade often provides favourable grounds for the emergence of infectious diseases, including zoonoses. We conduct a rapid evidence scan to explore what is known and hypothesized about the links between urbanization and zoonosis emergence. This points to rap…
Farmers, not gardeners
Sites of urban agriculture are often contested urban open spaces. In the current dominant ideal of the ‘competitive’ and ‘global’ city, little recognition is given to the potential benefits of urban agriculture, beyond beautification, subsistence or therapeutic purposes. In this context, urban agriculture is often viewed as an activity performed by ‘gardeners’, either contributing to individual well-being or reducing the costs of maintenance of p…
Navigating stigma through everyday city-making
Over the last two decades, a growing body of scholars from the fields of psychology, sociology, law and public health have devoted their attention to examining how and why stigma operates as a form of discrimination, paying particular attention to ethno-racially stigmatised groups. However, less attention has focused on how ordinary women and men engaged in peripheral urbanisation processes are stigmatised through multiple material, social and po…
Participatory mapping and food‐centred justice in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Food vendors are pivotal in the local food system of most low‐income informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, despite being seen as an obstruction and as agents of disease and filth by city authorities. This paper explores the geography of these foodscapes – defined as public sites of food production and consumption – in selected low‐income settlements in Nairobi, focusing on the interaction of food vendors with their surrounding environment and i…
From state agencies to ordinary citizens
The understanding of linkages between disaster risk and urban development has seen important advances in recent decades. However, it falls short in addressing the production and reproduction of so-called urban “risk traps”, which are accumulation cycles of everyday risks and small-scale disasters with highly localized impacts, particularly on impoverished urban dwellers. Drawing on the action-research project cLIMA sin Riesgo, this paper examines…
Can participatory mapping activate spatial and political practices? Mapping popular resistance and dwelling practices in Bogotá eastern hills
Within the wider ongoing debate of P articipatory A ction R esearch, this paper interrogates the capacity of participatory mapping not just as a means to tap into plural knowledges over and emanating from specific geographies but rather to disrupt exclusionary constructions of space and place and the reproduction of the governing relationships that cause inequality. Focusing on a participatory mapping experience undertaken by the authors in colla…
Urban sustainability under threat
As a result of the internal and external reforms introduced in the last two decades in Argentina, as in most Latin American countries, urban-based manufacturing activities have experienced a dramatic process of restructuring, which has prompted new social and environmental conflicts. In a context where macro-economic strategies are resulting in long-term restructuring of production patterns and local conflicts, it is important to assess the susta…
Crafting urban equality through grassroots critical pedagogies
How do ordinary citizens, activists and urban practitioners learn to become agents of change for a socially just habitat? The paper explores this question through the experiences of eight grassroots schools of popular urbanism working under the umbrella of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC) in Latin America. Building on a process of self-documentation and collective pedagogic reflection driven by the protagonists of these schools, the anal…
Urban sustainability under threat
As a result of the internal and external reforms introduced in the last two decades in Argentina, as in most Latin American countries, urban-based manufacturing activities have experienced a dramatic process of restructuring, which has prompted new social and environmental conflicts. In a context where macro-economic strategies are resulting in long-term restructuring of production patterns and local conflicts, it is important to assess the susta…
Environmental planning and management of the peri-urban interface
Although there is no consensus on the definition of the peri-urban interface, there is growing recognition among development professionals and institutions that rural and urban features tend increasingly to co-exist within cities and beyond their limits. There is also recognition that the urban–rural dichotomy that is deeply ingrained in planning systems is inadequate for dealing with processes of environmental and developmental change in the per…
Environmental planning and management of the peri-urban interface
The peri-urban water poor
Using the results of a comparative three-year research project in five metropolitan areas, this article reviews a range of practices in accessing water and sanitation by peri-urban poor residents and producers. It starts from the observation that neither centralized supply policies nor the market through, for example, large-scale profit-making enterprises are able to meet their needs. Although they are consumers insofar as they have no option but…
Managing the health effects of climate change
Built-in resilience
Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots experiences of coping with extreme weather for reducing the vulnerability of the urban poor to climate change. This paper examines the household and community coping strategies used by low-income households living in Korail, the largest informal settlement in Dhaka. This includes how they use physical, economic and social means to reduce risk, reduce losses and facilitate recovery from flooding and…
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Metabolism
The concept of urban metabolism, referring to the exchange processes that produce the urban environment, has inspired new ways of thinking about how cities can be made sustainable and has also raised criticisms about the specific social and economic arrangements in which some forms of flow are prioritized or marginalized within the city. This article explores how the concept of urban metabolism travels across disciplines, using a comparative anal…
Farmers, not gardeners
Sites of urban agriculture are often contested urban open spaces. In the current dominant ideal of the ‘competitive’ and ‘global’ city, little recognition is given to the potential benefits of urban agriculture, beyond beautification, subsistence or therapeutic purposes. In this context, urban agriculture is often viewed as an activity performed by ‘gardeners’, either contributing to individual well-being or reducing the costs of maintenance of p…
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
Urban metabolism is the study of material flows through cities. Academics have recently acknowledged the use of the metaphor not only to conceptualize urban sustainability but also to evaluate it
Can participatory mapping activate spatial and political practices? Mapping popular resistance and dwelling practices in Bogotá eastern hills
Within the wider ongoing debate of P articipatory A ction R esearch, this paper interrogates the capacity of participatory mapping not just as a means to tap into plural knowledges over and emanating from specific geographies but rather to disrupt exclusionary constructions of space and place and the reproduction of the governing relationships that cause inequality. Focusing on a participatory mapping experience undertaken by the authors in colla…
Mapping the Contradictions
Acknowledging that the relationship between resilience and environmental justice is complex, this chapter examines the tensions and contradictions arising between these two notions. Through a contextualised analysis of the institutional mapping practices, as well as those undertaken by inhabitants of two informal settlements on the periphery of Lima-Peru, it asks: what is to be made resilient? What from? With what consequences for environmental j…
Environmental Justice and Resilience in the Urban Global South
There has been a profusion of work since the turn of the last century exploring environmental justice in urban areas and resilience in cities of the Global South. These works have largely entailed the assumption of an a priori positive relationship between the two. In introducing this volume, we argue that a case-study approach based on empirical research is necessary in order to reveal the more complex ways in which the relationship between envi…
The Co-production of Water Justice in Latin American Cities
The concept of co-production implies that ‘citizens can play an active role in producing public goods and services of consequence to them’ by building upon existing local institutions and thereby reducing the scope for misappropriation of resources (Ostrom in World Development 24:1073–1087, 1996; Baland and Platteau in Halting degradation of natural resources: Is there arole for rural communities. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000). Based on …
Urban Resilience and Justice
The conclusion reflects on the theoretical, conceptual, methodological and empirical breadth of the contributing chapters and returns to the question outlined at the beginning of the book: what is the relationship, emerging connections and tensions between environmental justice and resilience in urban areas of the Global South? As explored throughout the chapters, in the face of environmental injustices, people develop survival strategies to cope…
Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South
This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities ar
Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South
This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities are more just cities. But what if the process of increasing the resilience of the city as a whole happens at the expense of the rights of certain groups? If urban resilience focuses on the degree to which cities are able to reorganise in creative ways …
Water trajectories through non-networked infrastructure
For many urbanites, infrastructural uncertainty refers to ‘predictable shocks’ rather than constituting a quotidian experience. By contrast, for the peri-urban poor, the sources of uncertainty underpinning water and sanitation services are endless: uncertainty about cost, about being evicted and indeed about ever becoming connected to networked systems.Drawing on a number of case studies, we argue that across the urban global south, the future is…
From state agencies to ordinary citizens
The understanding of linkages between disaster risk and urban development has seen important advances in recent decades. However, it falls short in addressing the production and reproduction of so-called urban “risk traps”, which are accumulation cycles of everyday risks and small-scale disasters with highly localized impacts, particularly on impoverished urban dwellers. Drawing on the action-research project cLIMA sin Riesgo, this paper examines…
Handbook of Global Urban Health
Does urbanization make emergence of zoonosis more likely? Evidence, myths and gaps
Rapid urbanization in the global South is adding epidemiological and nutritional challenges and increasing disease and health burdens for citizens. Greater movement of people, animals, food and trade often provides favourable grounds for the emergence of infectious diseases, including zoonoses. We conduct a rapid evidence scan to explore what is known and hypothesized about the links between urbanization and zoonosis emergence. This points to rap…
Participatory mapping and food‐centred justice in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Food vendors are pivotal in the local food system of most low‐income informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, despite being seen as an obstruction and as agents of disease and filth by city authorities. This paper explores the geography of these foodscapes – defined as public sites of food production and consumption – in selected low‐income settlements in Nairobi, focusing on the interaction of food vendors with their surrounding environment and i…
Habitat International Coalition
How do global coalitions of civil society, non-governmental and community-based organisations, social movements and academics, make visible, defend and produce habitat rights? This conversation with the President of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC), Adriana Allen, examines HIC’s perspectives on the practices, knowledges and pedagogies for translocal housing activism through reflections structured along several themes. These include under…
How Do We Learn Now? Pluralising Urban Pedagogies in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Since 2020, pedagogues and learners in the field of urban planning and practice have rapidly responded to new demands and realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These have included shifting the modes and sites of learning from classrooms to screens, developing new programmes to build urgently required local capacities, fostering partnerships and platforms that sustain remote ways of learning together, and facilitating multi-sensorial and inclu…
Crafting urban equality through grassroots critical pedagogies
How do ordinary citizens, activists and urban practitioners learn to become agents of change for a socially just habitat? The paper explores this question through the experiences of eight grassroots schools of popular urbanism working under the umbrella of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC) in Latin America. Building on a process of self-documentation and collective pedagogic reflection driven by the protagonists of these schools, the anal…
Navigating stigma through everyday city-making
Over the last two decades, a growing body of scholars from the fields of psychology, sociology, law and public health have devoted their attention to examining how and why stigma operates as a form of discrimination, paying particular attention to ethno-racially stigmatised groups. However, less attention has focused on how ordinary women and men engaged in peripheral urbanisation processes are stigmatised through multiple material, social and po…
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