The planning concept "15-minute city" has in recent years become a popular model, after which, for example, Mayor Anne Hidalgo plans and builds Paris. The model advocates a set time limit (15 minutes) during which the inhabitants of the city and the neighbourhood must be able to reach their daily nodes and needs by walking or cycling. Despite the name 15-minute city, the focus is not on zealously keeping this limit, but on the fact that all residents are being able to live locally in their neighbourhood. In the 15- minute city, car-use is greatly reduced, and the preferred means of transport are walking and cycling. However, the concept, which according to its author Carlos Moreno will generate better health and a more sustainable city, has been heavily criticized for contributing to gentrification and making unreasonable demands on the built environment. Similar concepts are implemented all over the world, for example in Munich, where this master's thesis has its point of departure. The purpose of the investigation is to be able to contribute to an ongoing debate about 15-minute cities and integrated neighbourhoods. More specifically, the purpose of this study is threefold: (1) identify strengths and weaknesses of the concept, (2) identify challenges that implementation of the concept may encounter in Munich and (3) identify challenges that implementation of the concept may encounter in three areas of varying character in Munich. Two of the areas already exist, one central and one peripheral, and the third area is being built according to the principles of an integrated local neighbourhood. The investigation has been carried out through a case study and the empirical material has been analysed through qualitative content analysis. Theories on what constitutes safe and lively streets and neighbourhoods as well as on how to construct long-lasting public spaces have been used as the theoretical framework. The results show that strengths with the concept include inherent resilience, an acceleration of the shift to sustainable transport, and that the concept appeals to a broad mass. Risks include a reduced desire to build in a recession, an imbalance in the distribution of resources and the concept per se being vaguely defined. The results also show that the high housing prices in Munich may make it more difficult for an implementation of the 15-minute city and that the built environment and public transport are deficient, which makes the implementation of the 15-minute city costly. Finally, the results show that the nature of the different areas generates different challenges. For example, the results indicate that the central area's biggest challenge is lacking infrastructure and political will, while the more peripheral area will be struggling to attract “urban amenities” and the area under construction is facing extensive difficulties in coordinating actors.

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Dom Stephen Moreno OSB (1889-1953) was one of Australia’s most respected and prolific composers of church music in the early twentieth century. He lived for almost fifty years in the Benedictine Community at New Norcia, WA, and composed 210 works, comprising over 1100 individual compositions and over 200 accompaniments to Gregorian chant. The majority of his output was in liturgical sacred music, including Masses, motets and Litanies, but it also included a significant quantity of secular vocal and instrumental music. Much of Moreno’s music was written for the Benedictine Community of New Norcia but he also composed liturgical music for the broader Australian church and secular music for the wider Australian community. Less than a quarter of Moreno’s music was published, and the vast majority of his output survives in manuscript at New Norcia. The purpose of the present study is to define the extent of Moreno’s output, to establish its chronology, and to examine the contexts and purposes for which he composed. This study has significantly added to and revised the findings of previous studies of Moreno’s music undertaken by Ros (1980) and Revell (1990) and supplies a revised biography. Approximately thirty-five percent of the works included in this study are identified and discussed here for the first time. Of the previously known works, Ros specifically dated less than one quarter and the present study refutes some seventy-four percent of Revell’s dates. Through the investigation of important primary sources, including the composer’s surviving correspondence and the Chronicle of the Benedictine Community, this study provides for the first time a complete chronology and contextual account of Moreno’s entire oeuvre. This has involved the cataloguing and indexing of over ten thousand pages of Moreno’s manuscripts and more than five thousand pages of his personal correspondence. This study has also identified a number of compositions unique to collections outside of New Norcia. While the primary purpose of this study has been to establish an accurate chronology and historical context for each work, the opportunity has also been taken to provide a preliminary assessment and discussion of Moreno’s musical style and compositional methods. Note: “Due to the inclusion of third party copyrighted material we are unable to mount the entire thesis. It can however be viewed at St Patrick’s Campus Library by prior arrangement.”

This thesis examines the concept of water cooperatives as an alternative model to create access, supply and manage water services in poor urban and peri urban areas. Two case studies from the Municipality of Moreno, Buenos Aires are presented in this thesis in order to account for the feasibility of the model. The primary data for this research is derived from participant observation, key informant interviews, household questionnaire-based interviews and archival research. The significance of researching water cooperatives is that they have traditionally been dismissed in regard to their potential of being a practical alternative to large water concessions and public run water services in the Global South. Research on alternatives such as water cooperatives is key, particularly in the face of growing de-privatization in the water sector in the province of Buenos Aires. The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area is an important case study for research on water governance because it was intended to be the World Banks model for which other countries would strive to emulate when reforming and improving water services by means of private concessions. The first part of the thesis examines the political and social history of water cooperatives in Argentina and the effects of privatization on the cooperative model. The second part outlines the theoretical advantages and disadvantages of the governance model and positions these theories against the realities of an existing water cooperative and a poor peri-urban community that has a strong affinity for implementing the model in their community. The two case studies presented in this thesis help to elucidate why the water governance model is able to serve poor peri-urban communities that otherwise remain unserviced by the traditional public or private water governance models. This is significant if we are earnest about providing water and sanitation services to all.

Esta tesis se inscribe en el marco de la crítica literaria latinoamericana. Analiza, identifica y caracteriza en la obra ensayística y narrativa de R. H. Moreno-Durán y de Fernando Cruz Kronfly, dos escritores representativos de las últimas décadas del siglo XX en Colombia, las estrategias narrativas y los procedimientos de escritura a través de los cuales se hace visible, se procesa y se constituye la noción de comunidad, entendida como una categoría que refiere a múltiples modos en que los sujetos se relacionan los unos con los otros y con los cuales se problematizan categorías históricas como identidad, nación, Estado y sujeto. La particularidad de la obra de estos escritores ha sido identificada a partir de tres modos de figuración de la comunidad: la comunidad del desencanto, la comunidad melancólica y la comunidad de lo íntimo. Con esto, la tesis propone contribuir al conocimiento de la literatura colombiana de fin de siglo XX y caracterizarla dentro del contexto literario latinoamericano.

This thesis examines the concept of water cooperatives as an alternative model to create access, supply and manage water services in poor urban and peri urban areas. Two case studies from the Municipality of Moreno, Buenos Aires are presented in this thesis in order to account for the feasibility of the model. The primary data for this research is derived from participant observation, key informant interviews, household questionnaire-based interviews and archival research. The significance of researching water cooperatives is that they have traditionally been dismissed in regard to their potential of being a practical alternative to large water concessions and public run water services in the Global South. Research on alternatives such as water cooperatives is key, particularly in the face of growing de-privatization in the water sector in the province of Buenos Aires. The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area is an important case study for research on water governance because it was intended to be the World Banks model for which other countries would strive to emulate when reforming and improving water services by means of private concessions. The first part of the thesis examines the political and social history of water cooperatives in Argentina and the effects of privatization on the cooperative model. The second part outlines the theoretical advantages and disadvantages of the governance model and positions these theories against the realities of an existing water cooperative and a poor peri-urban community that has a strong affinity for implementing the model in their community. The two case studies presented in this thesis help to elucidate why the water governance model is able to serve poor peri-urban communities that otherwise remain unserviced by the traditional public or private water governance models. This is significant if we are earnest about providing water and sanitation services to all.

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A ação que se desenha é oriunda das práticas artísticas realizadas por Leandro Machado e Ricardo Moreno em periferias de Porto Alegre; trata-se de processos artísticos em ação como modos de fazer cidade. Com método, inspirado na cartografia da ação de Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro, complementado por técnicas de pesquisa participativas, foi possível compor uma carta de navegação a partir da experiência dos artistas e dos encontros decorrentes disso, uma produção do espaço em forma de bricolagem, que intercala narrativas, sejam elas imagéticas ou textuais, relatos de caminhada, relatos testemunhos de uma instalação artística, seus usos, modos de fazer, poesia, saberes locais articulados e arte participativa com a comunidade. São ações que promovem visibilidades para esses espaços aos que Milton Santos atribui o conceito de opaco e para os homens lentos, possibilitando um compartilhamento estético e político – o que Jacques Ranciere chama de partilha do sensível. Isto é possível porque as ações são identificadas pelo que Michel de Certeau considera tática, são gambiarras que justificam os desejos de transformação desses espaços, conforme define Thais Portela, contrapontos às hegemonias de poder políticas e espaciais. A descrição dos modos de fazer dessas práticas artísticas é fundamental para uma compreensão mais ampla acerca da cidade, por privilegiar experiências do cotidiano que também contribuem para pensar a extensão universitária e a interlocução entre diferentes agentes sociais e pesquisadores; essas são práticas sociais que podem ser pensadas também como uma ferramenta para o planejamento, gestão e construção de políticas públicas urbanas, culturais e educativas. / The actions herein outlined come from the artistic practices undertaken by Leandro Machado and Ricardo Moreno in the peripheral neighborhoods of Porto Alegre; the study approaches artistic processes in action as ways of making a city. The method is inspired by Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro’s cartography of action and it is complemented with participatory research techniques, which made possible the composing of a navigation chart from the experiences of the artists and the encounters arising from that in a production of space by means of bricolage, alternating images and textual narratives with reports of long walks, testimonies of artistic installations and its uses, ways of doing, and poetry, articulating local knowledges and community participatory art. These actions promote visibilities for these spaces, to which Milton Santos attributes the concept of opacity, and for slow men, making way for an aesthetic and political sharing – that Jacques Rancière defined as the distribution of the sensible. This is possible because the actions are identified with what Michel de Certeau considers tactics, workarounds that justify the desire for transformation of these spaces, as defined by Thais Portela, counterposed to the political and spatial power hegemonies. The description of the ways of doing of these artistic practices is fundamental for a wider comprehension of the city, because it privileges day-to-day experiences that also contribute to the thinking of the actual extension of the University and the interlocution of different social agents and researchers; these are social practices that can also be thought of as tools for the planning, management, and construction of educational and cultural urban public policies.

El objetivo de esta investigación es determinar cómo en la novela EDLLB de Marvel Moreno, la representación de la construcción de género femenino, a través de una protagonista que se transforma en un “colectivo”, permite generar múltiples formas de resistencia al problema de la dominación sexo-genérica que privilegia lo masculino. Desde esta propuesta de lectura, el concepto sexo-género y su elaboración resultan centrales al momento de desarrollar un análisis relativo a la construcción de subjetividades, por lo que es imprescindible acotar las categorías específicas desde las que aquí se trabaja.

A ação que se desenha é oriunda das práticas artísticas realizadas por Leandro Machado e Ricardo Moreno em periferias de Porto Alegre; trata-se de processos artísticos em ação como modos de fazer cidade. Com método, inspirado na cartografia da ação de Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro, complementado por técnicas de pesquisa participativas, foi possível compor uma carta de navegação a partir da experiência dos artistas e dos encontros decorrentes disso, uma produção do espaço em forma de bricolagem, que intercala narrativas, sejam elas imagéticas ou textuais, relatos de caminhada, relatos testemunhos de uma instalação artística, seus usos, modos de fazer, poesia, saberes locais articulados e arte participativa com a comunidade. São ações que promovem visibilidades para esses espaços aos que Milton Santos atribui o conceito de opaco e para os homens lentos, possibilitando um compartilhamento estético e político – o que Jacques Ranciere chama de partilha do sensível. Isto é possível porque as ações são identificadas pelo que Michel de Certeau considera tática, são gambiarras que justificam os desejos de transformação desses espaços, conforme define Thais Portela, contrapontos às hegemonias de poder políticas e espaciais. A descrição dos modos de fazer dessas práticas artísticas é fundamental para uma compreensão mais ampla acerca da cidade, por privilegiar experiências do cotidiano que também contribuem para pensar a extensão universitária e a interlocução entre diferentes agentes sociais e pesquisadores; essas são práticas sociais que podem ser pensadas também como uma ferramenta para o planejamento, gestão e construção de políticas públicas urbanas, culturais e educativas. / The actions herein outlined come from the artistic practices undertaken by Leandro Machado and Ricardo Moreno in the peripheral neighborhoods of Porto Alegre; the study approaches artistic processes in action as ways of making a city. The method is inspired by Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro’s cartography of action and it is complemented with participatory research techniques, which made possible the composing of a navigation chart from the experiences of the artists and the encounters arising from that in a production of space by means of bricolage, alternating images and textual narratives with reports of long walks, testimonies of artistic installations and its uses, ways of doing, and poetry, articulating local knowledges and community participatory art. These actions promote visibilities for these spaces, to which Milton Santos attributes the concept of opacity, and for slow men, making way for an aesthetic and political sharing – that Jacques Rancière defined as the distribution of the sensible. This is possible because the actions are identified with what Michel de Certeau considers tactics, workarounds that justify the desire for transformation of these spaces, as defined by Thais Portela, counterposed to the political and spatial power hegemonies. The description of the ways of doing of these artistic practices is fundamental for a wider comprehension of the city, because it privileges day-to-day experiences that also contribute to the thinking of the actual extension of the University and the interlocution of different social agents and researchers; these are social practices that can also be thought of as tools for the planning, management, and construction of educational and cultural urban public policies.