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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Slums"”.
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Electrifying the bottom of the pyramid : improving access in slums
Slums are expanding in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and as a result, the lack of safe, reliable electricity access in these regions is expanding. Addressing this issue will require a comprehensive strategy that caters to many different design scenarios. Slum electrification is a complex topic …
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Stephen Crane and the Cinematic Spectacle of the New York Slums
<p>This work attempts to examine Stephen Crane's novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Story of New York) as well as a sampling of his New York slum fiction known as his Bowery Tales and Midnight Sketches in light of the burgeoning technological revolution of cinema as popular art form. By my …
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Combating the growth of slums using for-profit social business models
With 1 billion people living in the slums of cities today and no signs of a decrease in the rate of urbanization and population growth, it is obvious that new approaches to combating poverty and the global housing crisis are needed. Acknowledging the recent growth of the microfinance industry and …
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Reciprocity and Prejudice: An Experiment of Hindu-Muslim Cooperation in the Slums of Mumbai
The dissertation develops and tests a new theory to explain intergroup cooperation and outgroup discrimination. The theoretical part specifies under what conditions ethnic differences undermine public goods provision and exacerbate ethnic discrimination. It posits that people cooperate more with …
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Slums, Squatters and Urban Redevelopment Schemes in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore, 1894-1960
… the second wave of ‘indirect’ attacks on urban slums on an evolving imperial urbanism in Bombay, Rangoon, and Singapore. While previous chapters examined the emergence of an imperial urbanism centred on Bombay’s example, chapter four considers the extent to which Bombay remained central to this …
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Culture from the slums: punk rock, authenticity and alternative culture in East and West Germany
This comparative dissertation explores the new moral politics of authenticity emerging in the Western world in the post-1960s era. Examining the development of the popular music genre punk since the 1970s, this study helps to explain why Germany after decades of dictatorship became democratic and …
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The 1,000 dollar home : a scalable business model to build disaster relief dwellings and upgrade slums
This thesis proposes a new model for the private markets to build disaster relief dwellings or to upgrade degraded neighborhoods of very low income communities. The study offers a way to empower the dwellers of very poor communities or the victims of natural disasters not only by providing them …
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Watering the slums : how a utility and its street-level bureaucrats connected the poor in Bangalore
… accommodate the legal and financial realities of slums and connected 5,000 households or five percent of the slum population to the water network. Although the BWSSB demonstrated an unusual commitment to the poor, its efforts were not an unmitigated success. Progress was slow and staff failed to …
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Trading sugar : teenage girls, older men, sexual choice and gender inequalilty in the slums of Kibera, Kenya
… These girls are aged 18 to 20 and from the slums of Kibera, Kenya.
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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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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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Role of Indian NGOs in housing and development: A critical appraisal
… their impact on the living environment of urban slums, using 28 cases. The findings indicate that slums are not only pervasive, but perhaps even growing in India. An analysis of the literature establishes that Indians have traditionally formed NGOs to respond to needs that governments and the …
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The influences on the two inner city housing projects of the Bo Kaap and District Six in Cape Town that were built between 1938 and 1944
… that were built after the introduciton of the Slums Act of 1943, between 1938 and 1944. During this period there there were changes in the hegemonic perceptions of the city. The eradication of slums served as a catalyst for spatial change and the dislocation of lived space as the city sought to …
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Community participation strategies to improve health in slum settings: a qualitative systematic review
… 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 understanding of "what truly works" and …
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Institutional synergies in the delivery of urban upgrading services : lessons from the Slum Networking Program in Ahmedabad, India
… the aim to increase access to basic services in slums. This analysis reflects upon three central assumptions in the literature associated with service delivery to the urban poor through the lens of the SNP experience. First, the thesis asks why a promising and innovative public-private …
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The Role of Ecosystem Services and Adaptive Capacity in the Resilience of Poor Urban Areas
… that we understand how to build resilience in slums and informal settlements. This thesis contributes to this challenge by finding determinants of adaptive capacity, the degree to which ecosystem services are used, and significant heterogeneities in slum adaptive capacity. The research is based …
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Eviction or inclusion? : the politics of resettlement in Calcutta's squatter settlements
… functioned along a two-pronged model, where some slums have been legalized due to historical and political reasons, whereas others with equally strong claims to official recognition (as per the legal definition of slums) have been denied their existence and basic rights. Residents of the …
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Architecture After Forced Migration
… after natural disasters, refugee camps and slums. The need to provide accommodation after a natural disaster is essential. Therefore, a shelter that can be transported and deployed quickly and effectively, and that contemplates the uniqueness and complexity of the event, is studied in this …
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Observation, Surveillance, Voyeurism, and the Making of the Middle Class in Victorian England
… twisting alleyways and hidden courtyards of the slums, where poorly constructed housing and a lack of sanitation created dangerous living conditions. The newly emerging middle class, anxious about their close proximity to crime and disease, was eager to both see into the hidden slums, and draw …
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