Megaproject

To what extent can Development be understood as an “anti-politics machine”? Nowadays as in the past, many activists in the fields of the human rights approach to development – that James Ferguson regards as “the academic Left” (Ferguson 1990: 269) tout-court – have seen the state as “[…] the chief counter-force to the capitalistic logics of the market and the chief instrument for bringing about progressive economics transformations”, and by doing so “leftists have too often been willing to take…

In 1942, fifteen thousand American soldiers and civilian laborers poured into Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon to construct a highway stretching from mainland United States to Alaska overcoming obstacles of climate, terrain, and manpower shortages (see Figure 1). The construction of the Alaska Highway serves an illustrative episode where Canadian and American interest in northern development and continental defense became intertwined. There has been a tendency in the historiography to…

Enterprise resources management (ERM) system. A system that contains all of the processes of human resource management, decision support applications, distribution, maintenance support, quality and regulatory control, and health and safety compliance into a single system (Wallace, 1985). Information technology (IT). A term that relates to the use of hardware and software for purposes of transmitting and receiving information (Wideman, 2002). Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). An…

each functional area make their own.  Keeping with Cisco’s tough custom of standardization functional areas use ordinary architecture and databases.  Solvik’s opposition to ERP solutions was also untaught of concerns regarding the types of “megaprojects” that ERP implementations often became. Problems:  Just run over the heritage systems had in place persistently band-aid existing band…

Globalization means the process whereby geographical distance becomes a less important factor in the establishment and development of cross-border economic, political and socio-cultural relations. Networks of relationships and dependencies acquire a growing potential to become international and world-wide. Initially globalization was seen as a widening, deepening and accelerating of the interconnection on a worldwide scale of all aspects of contemporary social life, from culture to criminality,…

materials, forms and details of the building around it-cultural context. For example, most of the buildings and attractions in Dubai are being built with unique architecture and design such as Burj Khalifa. Dubai is also well known with other various megaproject such as Palm Islands which consist of luxury hotels, marinas, water theme park, residential villas and apartments (Junemo 2004). Apart from that, other feature of postmodernity that can be highlighted from Dubai’s land use development…

At a young age we learn to build relations with our peers, friends, family, teachers, neighbors and etcs, but it’s something that is build inside our DNA, because all animals have this need. Nations aren’t different although politics are involved, because what’s driving nations are people and these people are human beings. The building of a relation between nations, can be one country benefiting more than another or an equal relation. David Hume analyzed the principle of human nature, the…

Chelsea as the New York’s dominant gallery would have shocked a lot of people just twenty years ago. Chelsea, which had been known as the meatpacking district, did not become a a gallery district over night. The snowball effect to Chelsea becoming a dominant gallery neighborhood all started with the previous renown gallery district in New York City, SoHo. The former gallery district became far to expensive because of the raising of rents to fit in designer stores that were willing to pay far…

Even though the development of Hong Kong is earlier than Dubai, in nowadays, Hong Kong and Dubai are both outstanding representatives of the modern city in the world. Hong Kong locates in the center of Asia; and Dubai locates in the center of World. Regardless of economy or technology, these two place are lie at the forefront of the world. Some people said that Dubai is the" Hong Kong of Middle East Country." Moreover, the tourism industry in Hong Kong and Dubai grows at a rapidly speed. In 2010…

Annotated Bibliography Allen, M., Alleyne, D., Farmer, C., McRae, A., & Turner, C. (2014). A framework for project success. Journal of Information Technology & Economic Development, 5(2), 1-17. Retrieved from http://gsmi-jited.com/default.aspx The purpose of this study was to investigate aspects that promote project success opposed to just looking factors that promote project failure. There were six participants from two businesses in the study. The data collection was primarily gathered…