Rethinking the governance of household water supply in Bujumbura Analysing informality through a just city lens

dc.contributor.authorDe Keijser, Anaïs
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-05T12:25:58Z
dc.date.available2024-02-05T12:25:58Z
dc.date.issued2017en
dc.descriptionplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 5 (2017): Spatial governance: Bridging theory and practice 14-29
dc.description.abstractIn her 2010 book, The Just City, Susan Fainstein evaluates justice in her case-study cities (Amsterdam, New York and London) though a three dimensional analysis of justice (Equity, Diversity and Democracy). Her approach, popular among Western scholars, cannot be replicated as such in disadvantaged cities such as Bujumbura because of the important processes happening outside the formal institutional and policy frameworks. The main claim of this article is that justice cannot be evaluated in such contexts without taking into consideration the informal. Through a multi-scalar analysis of informality in household water provision in Bujumbura, the article assesses the importance of informality on the different dimensions of Fainstein’s Just City concept. Informality has to be included in the considerations if the concept of the ‘Just City’ is used as the analytical lens through which to make policy recommendations. This analytical lens then enables us to evaluate justice in - and rethink the governance of - urban systems with high degrees of informality, such as that of household water provision in Bujumbura.
dc.identifier.doi10.24306/plnxt.2017.05.002
dc.identifier.issn2468-0648en
dc.identifier.pageNumber14-29
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.24306/plnxt.2017.05.002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1325
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAESOPen
dc.rightsopenaccessen
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en
dc.sourceplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 5 (2017): Spatial governance: Bridging theory and practiceen
dc.subjectgovernanceen
dc.subjectjust cityen
dc.subjectinformalityen
dc.subjectwater supplyen
dc.titleRethinking the governance of household water supply in Bujumbura Analysing informality through a just city lens
dc.typearticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
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