Browsing by Author "Omar, Mustafa"

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    Exploring Equitable Development in Brooklyn Park
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Dressel, Elizabeth; Omar, Mustafa; Showalter, Elizabeth; Staley, Jared; Strain, Sarah
    This project was completed as part of the 2016-2017 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Brooklyn Park. The City wanted to update its Stable Neighborhood Action Plan (SNAP) to evaluate the impact of neighborhood redevelopment and other improvements since the original SNAP was created in 2005. City of Brooklyn Park project lead Emily Carr worked with a team of students in PA 8203 to engage with stakeholders and community leaders and analyze available data to assess key economic and social changes in the SNAP area.
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    Increasing Renters' Participation in City and Civic Life
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Omar, Mustafa; Vohs, Margaret; Showalter, Elizabeth
    This project was completed as part of the 2016-2017 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Brooklyn Park. Renters make up a significant portion of the total Brooklyn Park population, but are historically less engaged in civic life. Brooklyn Park community engagement staff wanted to identify strategies to encourage greater participation in community life among renters. The goal of this project was to develop tailored communication strategies to better connect with renters and to help the city improve service delivery to areas with higher concentrations of renters. Three students in Kathy Quick’s PA 5145 course worked with City of Brooklyn Park project lead Lidiya Girma to develop a set of recommendations organized around three themes: building trust, direct engagement, and ongoing engagement. The final report and engagement diagram are available.
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    Kabul - Rebirth of a City
    (2018-05) Omar, Mustafa
    Why is it that some policies have had positive medium and long-term impacts, and some have had negative impacts on the city’s housing and development, when reviewed ten or more years after they were executed? In search of answering this question, this thesis analyzes the impact of a number of the housing interventions that both international humanitarian organizations and the government of Afghanistan had undertaken within the first few years after the fall of Taliban. This thesis identifies two particular trends. First, the impact of the delivery of humanitarian assistance in shelter and settlement is directly correlated with the humanitarian organizations’ ability to co-design and co-implement the projects with full participation of the affected population. Second, resident engagement is not only a major contributor to resilient neighborhoods in post-Taliban Kabul’s housing, neighborhood, and settlement revitalization, but is also an essential ingredient in other aspects of the city’s life, such as the formalization of informal settlements and the conduct of the city government.