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Matchmaking in Nairobi : The Role of Land Use
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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Well-functioning cities reduce the economic distance between people and economic opportunities. Cities thrive because they enable matchmaking-among people, among firms, and between people and job opportunities. This paper examines employment accessibility in Nairobi, Kenya and evaluates whether modification of land use patterns can contribute to increases in aggregate accessibility. The assessment is based on simulation of counterfactual scenarios of the location of jobs and households throughout the city without new investments in housing or transport infrastructure. The analysis finds that modifications to the spatial layout of Nairobi that encourage land use clustering can increase the share of overall opportunities that can be accessed within a given time-frame. When commuters travel by foot or using the minibus network, the share of accessible economic opportunities within an hour doubles from 11 to 21 percent and from 20 to 42 percent respectively. The analysis also finds that spatial layouts that maximize the number of households that have access to a minimum share of jobs, through a more even jobs-housing balance, come at the expense of average accessibility. This result is interpreted as a trade-off between inclusive and efficient labor markets.


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Travail de fin d'études / Projet de fin d'études : Étude du matchmaking des produits de construction de réemploi
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Year: 2024 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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Aujourd’hui, de nombreux bâtiments sont démolis lorsqu’ils arrivent en fin de vie ou pour d’autres raisons ; plans urbanistiques, évolutions normatives ou esthétiques peuvent aussi condamner les édifices. Les produits les constituant sont souvent réduits en gravats et difficilement récupérables. Leur tri puis recyclage, au même titre que les déchets ménagers, deviennent de plus en plus courants. Cependant, opter pour la réutilisation des produits, tels des choix de seconde main, est à la marge, bien que le réemploi soit une pratique ancestrale. Il est donc essentiel que le secteur évolue pour permettre le développement de ces pratiques et réformer les manières de concevoir, construire, démolir, … pour une architecture circulaire et moins consommatrice de ressources.
Ce travail propose d’explorer, par une revue de la littérature, la place du réemploi au sein de la mutation circulaire du secteur de la construction ainsi que les étapes de la chaine de valeur actuelle du réemploi. Il investigue ensuite les obstacles à la massification du réemploi en s’intéressant à la dernière étape permettant de fermer la boucle : le matchmaking. Les processus permettant de lier l’offre en produits de réemploi à la demande sont parcourus en s’intéressant aux acteurs qui émergent et se spécialisent dans le réemploi. Des entretiens de ces acteurs sont réalisés à cet effet.
Ces entretiens mettent en lumière comment fonctionnent les processus de matchmaking de manière individuelle mais aussi comment les processus s’articulent les uns avec les autres. Ils discutent des différents aspects du matchmaking : de l’importance de la collaboration entre les acteurs spécialisés dans le réemploi à l’évolution des outils pour transmettre les informations des gisements, en passant par la mutation des rôles des acteurs ou encore l’influence des normes. Ce mémoire propose en somme d’étudier l’étape du matchmaking mais aussi et surtout de revisiter la métaphore de la chaine à maillons du réemploi. Today, many buildings are demolished when they reach the end of their life cycle and for other reasons; urban planning, normative or aesthetic developments can also condemn buildings. The products they contain are often reduced to rubble and difficult to recycle. Sorting and recycling them, in the same way as household waste, is becoming increasingly common. However, opting for the reuse of products, like second-hand choices, is on the bangs, even though reuse is an ancestral practice. It is therefore essential for the sector to evolve to allow the development of these practices and to reform the ways we design, build, demolish, ... for a circular and less resource-consuming architecture.
Through a literature review, this Master’s thesis explores the place of reuse within the sector's circular transformation, as well as the stages in the current reuse value chain. It then investigates the obstacles to the massification of reuse, focusing on the final stage in closing the loop: the matchmaking. The processes that links the supply of reuse products to demand are explored by focusing on the innovative stakeholders who are emerging and specializing in reuse. Interviews are conducted with these stakeholders.
These interviews highlight not only how matchmaking processes work individually, but also how the processes fits together. They discuss all aspects of matchmaking: from the importance of collaboration between stakeholders specialized in re-use to the evolution of tools for transmitting information on deposits, to the changing roles of other stakeholders and the influence of norms. In short, this Master’s thesis proposes to study the matchmaking stage, but also and above all to revisit the metaphor of the reuse chain of links.


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Up to date : communication and technology in romantic relationships
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ISBN: 9781433146534 1433146533 9781433146541 1433146541 1433146576 1433146568 143314655X Year: 2022 Publisher: New York Peter Lang

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"In Up to Date, Tong and Van Der Heide explore the spicy, unsetting-and sometimes just exhausting-universe of digital romance. As dating platforms like Bumble, Tinder, and Grindr proliferate, scholars have had to stretch their understandings of how courtship works, often arriving at fascinatingly counterintuitive theories about how twenty-first century daters shape online identities, select mates, mediate conflict, and maintain or terminate romantic relationships. This book guides readers through an increasingly complex and extensive literature, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, while establishing new avenues for the future. Written for both students and seasoned experts alike, the book also addresses the largely invisible underpinnings of what has become a multibillion-dollar industry, including propriety algorithms and perverse economic incentives. Up to Date is a provocative and rigorous must-read for anyone who seeks to understand or conduct research regarding the social science of online romance"--


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Sharing Cities Shaping Cities
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ISBN: 3038979899 3038979880 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The sharing economy and collaborative consumption are attracting a great deal of interest due to their business, legal and civic implications. The consequences of the spreading of practices of sharing in urban environments and under daily dynamics are underexplored. This Special Issue aims to address if and how sharing shapes cities, the way that spaces are designed and lived in if social interactions are escalated, and the ways that habits and routines take place in post-individualistic society. In particular, the following key questions are of primary interest: Urban fabric: How is ‘sharing’ shaping cities? Does it represent a paradigm shift with tangible and physical reverberations on urban form? How are shared mobility, work, inhabiting reconfiguring the urban and social fabric? Social practices: Are new lifestyles and practices related to sharing changing the use and design of spaces? To what extent is sharing triggering a production and consumption paradigm shift to be reflected in urban arrangements and infrastructures? Sustainability: Does sharing increase the intensity of use of space and assets, or, rather, does it increase them to meet the expectations of convenience for urban lifestyles? To what extent are these phenomena fostering more economically-, socially-, and environmentally-sustainable practices and cities? Policy: How can policy makers and municipalities interact with these bottom-up and phenomena and grassroots innovation to create more sustainable cities? Scholars responded to the above questions from the fields of urban studies, urban planning and design, sociology, geography, theoretically-grounded and informed by the results of fieldwork activities.

Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages
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ISBN: 9786612359729 0520937228 128235972X 1597348775 9780520937222 1417508329 9781417508327 9781597348775 0520237056 9780520237056 0520238702 9780520238701 6612359722 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships-their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating-this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.


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The relationship people : mediating love and marriage in twenty-first century Japan
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ISBN: 9781498594219 9781498594202 1498594204 Year: 2022 Publisher: Lanham, Md Lexington Books

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"The Relationship People examines the marriage industry and its clients in neoliberal Japan. It addresses what industry professionals are promoting to ease Japan's low rates of marriage and childbirth, what singles are actually doing, and whether focusing on introducing more singles to each other can effectively solve Japan's millennial woes"--

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