Development Of Construction Sector Research Articles

A Divided Capital: Residential Segregation In Ankara

Turkey has undergone large-scale structural changes in social, political, and economic spheres in 2000s. In changing political climate of 2000s, not only social and political geographies, but also residential patterns of cities have been subject to abrupt changes. The development of construction sector reached a speed never seen before in country’s urbanisation history. Growing numbers of transformation and renewal projects took place mainly in older and historical central areas and former gecekondu sites of many greater cities. The relationship of new “upper” and “lower” classes both with rest of society and city has also radically changed. But, despite dynamism of this new era, our knowledge about extent of this transformation process is still relatively poor. Our knowledge on bases, scale and possible impacts of this transformation is still limited and partial. On these grounds, this article attempts to understand of this transformation process in year of 2000 through socio-economic residential segregation in capital city of Turkey, Ankara, where this transformation process is heavily felt. It is claimed that as one of most debated issues in Turkish public agenda, examining segregation in analytical ways can provide useful insights and valuable clues as to understanding socio-economic structure of cities. The findings of study show that Ankara is a highly divided city in socio-economic lines and urban dynamics of recent years are highly correlated with characteristic divisions of city. The study, in this sense, not only provides an extended look into segregation dynamics of city, but also sheds light on the roots of this active and dynamic period of 2000s, and thereby reveals last picture of city before great transformation . Key words: Socio-economic segregation, residential segregation, status groups, transformation, Ankara.

Institutional Framework, Current Investments and Future Strategic Direction for Development of Construction Sector in Montenegro

Even though it entered the privatization process unprepared, and despite the privatization process leading to the collapse of a vast number of the largest construction companies, the construction sector in Montenegro has undergone a significant expansion in the period between 2005-2008. This was possible thanks to the opening of the Montenegrin market and creation of a favorable investment climate and a large inflow of foreign direct investment. However, the global financial crisis and a recession in the developed market economies after the mentioned period was affected by the slowdown of economic growth in Montenegro including the construction industry.

Sustainability of the Construction Sector in Poland in Comparison to other Economic Sectors

In various sectors in Poland, aims of sustainable development are being implemented more or less successfully. It is necessary to apply the principles of sustainable development to the human behaviour and activity of business entities, because there are more and more activities particularly harmful to the natural environment. The implemented modern technologies aimed at the elimination of (or eliminating) the negative impact of human and business activities on the natural environment, are bringing the desired results as far as the protection of individual natural resources is concerned. Inability to define the economic value of the natural resources results in their constant, excessive exploitation and degradation. However, the growing awareness of the environmental issue in Poland is resulting in the application of technologies that protect individual natural resources. The paper attempts to determine the measures of sustainable development of construction sector in the scope of economic and environmental order, and to classify all of the economic sectors in Poland in accordance with the achieved level sustainability. For this purpose one has used the numerical taxonomy methods, and in particular the methods of linear ordering of objects (that involve projection of the objects from a multidimensional space of features onto a straight line), called the methods of multidimensional comparative analysis. The measures were designed based on available statistical data from 2012. The purpose of this article is comparison the construction sector to each other and to find out which sectors are similar to each other in terms of sustainability level, and to find sectors that have managed to achieve the best results in this regard.

Construction sector development: frames and governance responses

The governance of construction sector development constitutes an important policy issue in many European countries due to the increasing impact that construction as well as the built environment have on gross domestic product and the environment. Previous studies have discussed how national construction industries have been framed as objects of development. However, less attention has been placed on exploring how an industry is recognized and framed as an object that can be subjected to organized development activities from the viewpoint of strategically motivated actors, and how such framing activities may be governed. Based on a case study of the sector development activities in the Danish construction industry, this paper argues that governance strategies should not necessarily be designed to ensure the development of a single industrial conceptualization. First, drawing on concepts from institutional theory it is suggested that strategic framing activities aiming to conceptualize an industry as a sectoral object of development are likely to generate multiple and incommensurable representations with different and conflicting strategic implications. Second, if faced with a development agenda composed of multiple incommensurable sector representations, then the most productive governance response may be to recognize and accept their conflicting strategic implications. La gouvernance du développement dans le secteur du bâtiment constitue un enjeu politique important dans de nombreux pays européens en raison de l'impact croissant que le bâtiment aussi bien que le cadre bâti ont sur le produit intérieur brut et sur l'environnement. Des études antérieures ont examiné comment les industries nationales du bâtiment ont été présentées comme des objets de développement. Cependant, il a été porté une moindre attention à l'étude de la manière dont une industrie est reconnue et définie comme un objet qui peut être soumis à des activités de développement organisées, du point de vue d'acteurs aux motivations stratégiques, et à l'étude de la manière dont ces activités de cadrage peuvent être régies. Sur la base d'une étude de cas portant sur les activités de développement sectoriel dans l'industrie danoise du bâtiment, cet article soutient que les stratégies de gouvernance ne devraient pas nécessairement être conçues de façon à assurer le développement d'une conceptualisation industrielle unique. En premier lieu, en faisant appel aux concepts de la théorie institutionnelle, il est suggéré que les activités de cadrage stratégique visant à conceptualiser une industrie en tant qu'objet de développement sectoriel sont susceptibles de générer des représentations multiples et incommensurables offrant des implications stratégiques différentes et contradictoires. En second lieu, en cas de confrontation à un ordre du jour du développement composé de représentations sectorielles multiples et incommensurables, la réponse la plus productive en termes de gouvernance peut être alors de reconnaître et d'accepter leurs implications stratégiques contradictoires. systèmes d'entreprise, industrie du bâtiment, gouvernance, théorie institutionnelle, développement sectoriel, Danemark