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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Squatters"”.
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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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Slums, Squatters and Urban Redevelopment Schemes in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore, 1894-1960
My research examines the interconnected histories of urbanism and urban development in port cities across South and Southeast Asia. Chapter one examines the effects of the third plague pandemic on the quotidian livelihoods and the built environments of the urban poor across Bombay, Hong Kong, and …
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Of squatters and schemes : considering city-level strategies for housing the poor in India
This thesis examines two approaches to housing the urban poor in the city of 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 …
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What Was Squatting, and What Comes Next?: The Mystery of Property in New York City, 1984-2014
… property as a socio-historical process and squatters as situated actors within that process, this dissertation seeks to understand how a relatively stable and hegemonic property regime, such as private property in the United States, works and changes. Squatting is an ideal lens for …
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Between the Cracks: From Squatting to Tactical Media Art in the Netherlands, 1979–1993
… During this time, conflicts between squatters, property owners, and the police frequently escalated into full-scale riots. Although the practice of squatting was legally protected in the Netherlands, the formation of a social movement around squatting in the mid- to late ’70s brought …
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Rule by exception : development, displacement and dissent In greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
… regulations, the Essential Clearance of Squatters Regulations (ESCR, promulgated initially in 1969 and used until 2013) for the purposes of displacement and urban planning. Relying on archival research, interviews, and an in-depth case study, I seek to characterize the nature of urban …
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Displacement, politics and governance : access to low-income housing in a Beirut suburb
… post-war monetary compensation to war-displaced squatters; (ii) the intervention of Shiite political parties in the housing market, and (iii) the conflict over territory in Sahra Choueifat between the incoming Shiite group and the original Druze residents. The study presents three main findings: …
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Activist memorialization : bearing witness at St. George's Cathedral
… group consisted of 17 former South African squatters who fasted at St. George’s Cathedral in 1982, demanding rights to live and work in Cape Town. Of the group of 17, I conducted personal interviews with seven women and three men.
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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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Providing security of tenure to the urban poor : investigating the roots of slum improvement in Hyderabad, India
… and efforts to guarantee the occupancy rights of squatters a decade earlier. More than twenty-five years have passed since the city undertook land reform. This distance offers an opportunity to re-examine the history of land reform and its impact on slum improvement and the city in general. …
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Cultural Behaviors and Their Influence on the Proximal Femur: Comparisons of Postural Behavior, Occupation, and Subsistence-Settlement Between a Pre-Contact and Historic Sample
… idea Schroeder Mounds individuals were habitual squatters/kneelers with a more sedentary lifestyle than expected. Given the geographic location, there was little need to travel long distances for food with the abundance of aquatic resources available. This research presents a new biocultural …
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New England Rubicon: a study of eastern Maine during the American Revolution
… approximately four thousand in number, were squatters, some possessing conditional township grants from the Massachusetts General Court, but none with titles finally confirmed by the Crown. Disdaining the security of life in more populated sections, these newcomers were ambitious individuals, …
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"A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People": Globalizing Cities, World-Class Waste, and the Biopolitics of Food Not Bombs
… in which they are embedded--Dumpster-divers, squatters, homeless advocates, punks, anarchists, and so on--in Seattle, New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Melbourne, Australia, and several other cities. It describes the link between urban globalisation and the proliferation of Food Not Bombs …
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Power playground
… synonymous with 'overcrowding, poverty, and squatters' (Pinnock, 2016: 12). Segregation under the apartheid regime forcibly placed Black and Coloured citizens in these areas. These areas have since become eclectic linguistic platforms where many languages form part of the daily liveliness. …
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The impact of subsistence farming and informal settlement on Dukuduku Forest as a tourist resource
… forest in South Africa More than 10 000 illegal squatters have invaded the forest and chopped down the trees and undergrowth in the area. This has created many problems such as extinction of some plant and animal species. The cleared areas have become breeding grounds for mosquitoes, which in …
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Engagement and conflict in Hong Kong planning: a post-political inquiry
… to those in resistance, with a focus on rural squatters in Hong Kong. Informed by concepts such as radical democracy and subjectivation, it investigates the construction of meanings and identities by different actors. Chapter 6 looks into the future by reflecting on the implications on …
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Squatter upgrading in Zambia : adequacy of the institutional framework
… improvements. It established that as long as squatters gained the assurance of being ‘safe’ from eviction, they made decisions to improve their houses. Key words: squatter upgrading, institutional framework, adequacy, governance, power dynamics, Zambia
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Sport, space and segregation Pietermaritzburg, 1900-1980
… targeted. Black sportspersons were in effect squatters at impermanent facilities. Black recreation was a challenge to White ideas about the use of urban space. For Africans, the controlled area preferred by the authorities was the beerhall, not the sports field. Effective resistance organised …
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Privatization of buildings and land : the case of El Salvador
… for the budget; and c) the provision of land to squatters. The case studies show that, the current GOES privatization process does not account for the opportunity cost of holding SOEs whose space has the following characteristics: a) underutilized subsidized, and/or surplus to the GOES's needs; …
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