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SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS IN TRIPOLI, LIBYA: ASSESSING, MONITORING, AND ANALYZING THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF URBAN SQUATTER AREAS IN THE PERI-URBAN FRINGE
… appearance of informal areas, and particularly squatter settlements, since the late 1980s. This phenomenon has had many negative impacts for Tripoli and its vicinity. This phenomenon has evolved to become a chronic problem. As a response to this problem, governmental efforts have been made to …
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Squatter upgrading in Zambia : adequacy of the institutional framework
… it has announced intentions to upgrade squatter settlements to improve the living conditions of the urban poor, and enable them to participate in the vision. However, without a squatter upgrading framework in place, the research assumed government would use the existing Lusaka Squatter …
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A proposal for squatter upgrading program, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1979.
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From the squatter settlement : a program to build the city
… or not, limit the field of his/her practice. Squatter settlements in the developing world are built in totally different circumstances. Created under illegal conditions, they provide us with an opportunity to observe the creation of new environments located outside of our legal and ideological …
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Semi-nonstandard construction and its application in post-squatter İstanbul
Prefabricated buildings have long played a role in providing inexpensive, yet high quality dwellings for the multitude. However, such structures are typically standardized in nature and poorly suited for deployment within a crowded urban fabric. In Istanbul, where redevelopment projects have …
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Gecekondu/built overnight : a documentary on a squatter settlement in Istanbul.
Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Resource transformation in squatter households : testing a system model of urbanism
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1980.
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Eviction or inclusion? : the politics of resettlement in Calcutta's squatter settlements
… eviction of vast numbers of already impoverished squatters living in unrecognized slums. In this milieu, residents of unrecognized areas face the very urgent and real threat of eviction without any form of rehabilitation, due to their "illegal" status. At this juncture, it is critically important …
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Partnership in development : construction of the sewerage systems in the squatter settlements of Pakistan
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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"Young Town" growing up : four decades later : self-help housing and upgrading lessons from a squatter neighborhood in Lima
… Independencia, one of Lima's young towns (squatter settlements), forty-five years after its founding. The study was designed to better understand how Independencia's low and moderate income families have been able to access and upgrade their housing from a long-term perspective. The thesis …
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The need for alternative technology for water supply and waste disposal systems in the squatter settlements of developing countries.
Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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The impact of upgrading squatter settlements on access to decent housing : A comparative study of selected compounds in Lusaka, Zambia
Zambia has a long history of upgrading of squatter settlements dating back to 1972 when the first upgrading programme was undertaken in Lusaka. The upgrading of squatter settlements has remained to be a policy matter as enshrined in the 1996 National Housing Policy. The upgrading of squatter …
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The impact of upgrading squatter settlements on access to decent housing : A comparative study of selected compounds in Lusaka, Zambia
Zambia has a long history of upgrading of squatter settlements dating back to 1972 when the first upgrading programme was undertaken in Lusaka. The upgrading of squatter settlements has remained to be a policy matter as enshrined in the 1996 National Housing Policy. The upgrading of squatter …
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From Conflict to Collaboration: Nongovernmental Organizations and their Negotiations for Local Control of Slum and Squatter Housing in Mumbai, India
… of housing provision for residents of slums and squatter settlements. The recent pursuit of collaboration between NGOs and government housing agencies in large urban agglomerations such as Mumbai, India marks a significant shift from the adversarial climate that previously characterized NGO-GO …
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"White Slaves of California": Race, Religion, and the Railroad in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's <i>The Squatter and the Don</i>
<p>In <em>The Squatter and the Don</em> (1885), Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton depicts the decline of the Alamars, a patrician Californio family, in the years after California was annexed by the United States. This thesis explores the different rhetorical maneuvers Ruiz de Burton makes to place the …
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The fiction of adverse possession
Occupation of land by a squatter in England is seen as a wrong, and the squatter a trespasser. This is recognised as adverse possession and this doctrine has been established by iteration and reiteration over the long history of English land law with the sole intention of protecting the real …
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Family housing in San Fernando, the Philippines : tradeoffs and choices in the use of dwelling space
… government relocation settlement and an informal squatter settlement. This study shows how family needs and values produce a variety of housing decisions in both the resettlement and squatter sites. The data show how the residents' housing choices reflect their limited economic resources and …
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Urban Law and Housing Policy in Zambia
… Areas, and the recognition and Improvement of Squatter Areas. These policies reflect an appreciation of the futility of reliance on local authority rental housing. Hence the abandonment of further rental housing in 1972. The Chapter also discusses the significance of each of the policies in the …
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