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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Slum upgrading"”.
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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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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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The institutional dynamics of participatory slum-upgrading processes: the case of Langrug informal settlement
… research uses the Langrug informal settlement upgrading programme as a case study to analyse the institutional arrangements and to examine power relations in a context-specific coproduction process. The research uses semi-structured interviews, field observations and secondary data to examine …
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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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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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Effects of public policies on informal and formal urban expansion. A comparative impact evaluation between neighborhood legalization and slum upgrading policies in Bogota-Colombia
Una de las principales características de la historia reciente de las ciudades latinoamericanas ha sido la rápida y descontrolada expansión de la ciudad informal e ilegal, que, sólo en el caso de Bogotá, ha provocado un déficit habitacional de más de 352.000 hogares (14 % de la población de la …
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Movin' on up : mainstreaming under-serviced urban communities in Colombo, Sri Lanka
… in Sri Lankan urban housing policy regarding slums in the capital city of Colombo. During the 1980s, the Sri Lankan government achieved widespread urban improvements by mobilizing community-led on-site slum upgrading. However, since the late 1990s, the government has attempted to persuade …
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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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Temporary upgrading : how permanent are the results? : a case study of strategies to improve tenure in Ho Chi Minh City
… NGOs and community residents have been actively upgrading and installing infrastructure along the riverbank and throughout the settlement. What are the reasons for this apparent inconsistency between the Master Plan proposals and the community and NGO responses? Is their upgrading investment an …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… diverse population. Does informal housing (or slums) cause political marginalization? In the first paper, I delineate between housing informality of infrastructure and tenure insecurity, and posit that the former generates collective interests and demand for the state. Using a panel survey of …
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Of squatters and schemes : considering city-level strategies for housing the poor in India
… Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat - the Slum Networking Project, an attempt to institutionalize slum upgrading at the city-level and the Development Plan-Town Planning Scheme mechanism, an enabling approach similar to land readjustment that seeks to deliver serviced land to the urban land …
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Differential vulnerability and adaptive responses to climate change-related hazards in informal urban settlements in Accra, Ghana
… in the implementation of a participatory slum upgrading intervention in Accra. Doing so will require a paradigm shift in urban planning practice in Accra and similar contexts. The study thus extends the discourse of social vulnerability and adaptive capacity in the wider debates on …
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Organized self-help housing as an enabling shelter & development strategy. Lessons from current practice, institutional approaches and projects in developing countries
… buildings up to four or five storeys for in-situ slum upgrading,relocation, reconstruction or new housing projects. OSHH projects should consider that the settlement might increase its density up to five times in a 35-year lifetime,as was the case in some sites-and-services.The study has …
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Networks of participation in favelas in Rio de Janeiro : the experiences of community leaders fostering continuous and affective networks to resist oppressive power
… community participation as ‘best practice’ in slum upgrading programmes. Two decades later, however, informal settlements continue to experience precarious living conditions and multiple forms of oppression. To better understand participation in informal settlements, I situate this thesis at …
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Development, Security and Displacement: An Ethnographic Case Study of Rocinha and other Key Favelas in Rio de Janeiro
… of Rocinha, Brazil’s largest <em>favela</em> (slum/squatter community).</p> <p>Since 2007 unprecedented resources have been devoted towards improving Rio de Janeiro’s <em>favelas</em> (slums), mainly in the form of large-scale favela upgrading and security programs. Coinciding with the historic …