Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia: Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition Spencer James Nguyen H.
This project centers on one of the material drivers of local democratic processes. Too often in public, scholarly, and policy debates, conversations about participatory democracy devolve into voting…
Specifikacia Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia: Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition Spencer James Nguyen H.
This project centers on one of the material drivers of local democratic processes. Too often in public, scholarly, and policy debates, conversations about participatory democracy devolve into voting rights, formal governance procedures, and other relatively abstract processes. While important, this point of view can often obscure the very immediate and material concerns of citizens, urban residents, and others that are simultaneously "citizens" of communities of varying geographic scales when it comes to - for example - the roads they travel, the electricity they consume, the schools they attend, and the water they use. The intention of this book is to examine the daily urban infrastructure needs of citizens, especially under rapid growth contexts, as a window into the broader concern with participation in governance, development, and visioning the future.The central premise