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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Slum"”.
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Slum Upgrading and the Rental Housing Sector: A study of landlord-tenant relationships in a Lagos (Nigeria) slum
… of the inadequate housing conditions found in slums has compelled most governments in developing world and international organisations, notably the World Bank, to invest in several housing strategies, namely the provision of housing and self-help housing, in order to improve the housing …
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IDENTITIES, PROXIMITY, AND MOBILIZATION IN INDIAN SLUM NEIGHBORHOODS
… apply the exposure metric to original data from slums in three Indian cities, and find support for my claim that proximity has distinct effects on social and political relations between groups. I then explore the relationship between neighborhood-level collective action and social mobility. I …
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The Negro Tavern: A Microcosm of Slum Life
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Urbanistica informale degli slum nelle città metropolitane. Processi migratori e modelli significativi delle forme di inurbamento. Interventi sperimentali negli slum di Mumbai
The phenomenon of slum with its related problems interests different regions in the world and it is one of the most interesting topics for the multidisciplinary research, in particular on issues of urban migration in large cities. For various reasons, it is difficult that this phenomenon could be …
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Slum upgrading in India and Kenya: investigating the sustainability
Slums are informal housing settlements commonly found in urban areas of developing countries which are characterised by poor shelter, low service provision and lacking in security of tenure. Slums are growing and new slums are forming. The international development community has been actively …
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Social capital and participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok, Thailand
… the concept of social capital to participatory slum upgrading, specifically the Baan Mankong (“secure housing”) programme in Bangkok. The Baan Mankong programme uses community participation to meet the housing needs of the urban poor, with financial assistance from the state. Since starting in …
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Demand for ante-natal care in Nairobi's slum areas
… demand for ante-natal care in two of Nairobi's slum areas, namely, Kibera and Mathare. Antenatal care is important as its absence I underprovision means higher incidences of both maternal and infant mortalities. On the other hand proper ante-natal care means improved well-being of both mother …
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Squatters as developers? : Mumbai's slum dwellers as equity partners in redevelopment
This dissertation analyzes the slum redevelopment strategy introduced by the state government of Maharashtra (India) in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay). The strategy involves demolishing the existing slums and building on the same sites at a higher density, new, medium rise apartment-blocks …
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PERCEPTIONS OF VIOLENCE IN A FORMER SLUM IN BRAZIL : A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION
… on violence as perceived by residents of the slum (favela) of Vila Nova located in the outskirts of Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. At the time of this study, Vila Nova had existed for approximately 20 years, its underpriviledged residents having come to Brasilia from other states in search …
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Public Space Planning as a Catalyst for Dweller Initiated Slum Upgrading: Ahmedabad, India
… observes how public space planning can improve slum upgrading projects, focusing on two case study slums in Ahmedabad, India.</p> <p>The inclusion of formal public space planning into slum upgrading schemes can act as a catalyst for dweller-initiated housing improvements. While municipalities …
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Making the Modern Slum: Housing, Mobility, and Poverty in Bombay and its Peripheries
… examines the formation of urban poverty and slums which have long stigmatized South Asian cities. It focuses on the emergence of markets in housing through the 19th and early 20th centuries in Bombay primarily, and Karachi and Aden secondarily. It is the first historical study of slums, or …
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Community participation strategies to improve health in slum settings: a qualitative systematic review
With more than a billion people living in slum settings, the need to better health in slums is ever-growing. Community participation (CP) is continually gaining prominence as integral when addressing the complex challenges of those living in slums. Specific to health interventions in slums, an …
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The institutional dynamics of participatory slum-upgrading processes: the case of Langrug informal settlement
… conflicts. The study recommends that the Slum Dwellers International (SDI) alliance needs to build stronger grassroots structures in Stellenbosch to increase local capacity in community mobilisation and advocacy. Besides the need to incorporate the media, the partnership must improve the …
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Governance at the margins : the challenge of implementing slum housing policy in Maharashtra, India
… Services for the Urban Poor (BSUP) is an in-situ slum housing up-gradation policy that was initiated in 2005 by the Central Government of India under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). It is one of the few housing policies in the long history of slum housing policies in …
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Developing a place-centred approach to sustainable development solutions for Namatala Slum, Mbale Municipality, Uganda
Namatala, the largest slum in Mbale Municipality in Eastern Uganda, is in the industrial division of the Municipality. The period between 2003 and 2013 show that there has been both urban infill and urban sprawl in Namatala. The strongest patterns appear to be urban infill of informal housing in …
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All that glitters is not gold : unexpected lessons from a slum upgrading program in Brazil
This paper looks at the Ribeira Azul Slum Upgrading Program in Salvador de Bahia Brazil, implemented by the development agency of the state of Bahia, CONDER, and the Italian NGO Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internationale (AVSI), which is recognized by the World Bank and Cities Alliance …
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Language, communication, and cognition: A study of slum-dwelling women in a nutrition education programme in India
… of Bengali-speaking mothers living in the Chetla slum in Kolkata, India, in collaboration with the NNEdPro Mobile Teaching Kitchen (MTK) project. This thesis presents a scoping review of the existing evidence, before outlining the development and adaptation of a task battery, comprising a …
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The use of biofiltration cells to filter contaminated water flowing from a slum settlement in South Africa
… of water that is generated and discharged from a slum settlement in South Africa, where water-based services are limited and often dysfunctional, is intercepted and diverted through six biofiltration cells. These cells were packed with different types of natural media, three of which were planted …
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Providing security of tenure to the urban poor : investigating the roots of slum improvement in Hyderabad, India
… between urban land reform and large-scale slum improvement in Hyderabad, India. It forges a link between citywide slum improvement in the 1980s and efforts to guarantee the occupancy rights of squatters a decade earlier. More than twenty-five years have passed since the city undertook land …
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