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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Urban Poverty"”.
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Mixed use industry in urban poverty areas.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1968. B.Arch.
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Tackling Urban Poverty in the Secondary Learning Environment
… in this dissertation in practice is that many urban schools that serve low socioeconomic communities fail to engage and, therefore, empower students to succeed. The purpose of this dissertation is to identify how urban poverty presents in secondary learning environments (i.e. high schools), to …
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Appropriating decentralization: how urban poverty project triggers advocacy
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Governance in a Democratic Transition: The Case of the Urban Poverty Project in Cirebon
… success and sustainable implementation of the Urban Poverty Project in Cirebon.
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The language of urban poverty : institutional action, perception, and lived experience within Batu and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
This study considers urban poverty within Batu and Addis, Ethiopia, as an outcome of relationships. By unpacking the complex interplay between institutional action, perception, and lived experience of urban poverty, I contend that historical and social relationships between the poor and non-poor …
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Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development In The Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-Salaam
This study on “Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development in the Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-salaam” has investigated the association between three interrelated variables, namely human capability development levels in …
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Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development In The Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-Salaam
This study on “Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development in the Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-salaam” has investigated the association between three interrelated variables, namely human capability development levels in …
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Participation as an end versus a means : understanding a recurring dilemma in urban upgrading
Since the 1920s, participatory approaches to urban upgrading in developing nations have demonstrated that involving the urban poor in the physical, social, and economic development of their settlements could improve their living conditions. These housing policies and projects have since been …
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The Transition From Welfare to Work: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Women's Employment Patterns
… dissertation provided a timely look at issues of urban poverty. It refutes conservative views which claim the poor choose not to work and in order to receive federal support. It also supports large scale labor market reform including the creation of jobs which pay a living wage as low-wage work …
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Vulnerability and resilience in crisis : urban household food insecurity in Harare, Zimbabwe
Within the context of demographic growth, rapid urbanization and rising urban poverty which characterizes much of Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century, this thesis examines the urban poor's vulnerability to food insecurity and analyses the strategies that households adopt to enhance their …
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Making the Modern Slum: Housing, Mobility, and Poverty in Bombay and its Peripheries
This dissertation 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 …
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The Ford Foundation and the Reinvention of American Liberalism, 1968-2000
… role in reshaping liberal policy toward poverty, crime, and racial inequality. This dissertation shows how the Ford Foundation, responding to growing concerns about a conservative ‘white backlash’, embarked on a self-conscious effort to reinvent liberal policymaking toward crime and urban …
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Productive landscape: Turning vacant and underutilised spaces into urban agriculture, for social, economic and environmental benefits in the Two Rivers Urban Park (TRUP) site, Cape Town
… the fast changing climate conditions, persisting poverty and inequality. Due to the raising urban poverty and environmental uncertainties, the planning profession globally, has begun to engage with sustainable urban food system and policies. In the past urban agriculture was view as a rural …
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Spirasol : improvements to semi-continuous solar disinfection water treatment systems
… were not a good match for sites of extreme urban poverty such as the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. However, the overall low cost among semi-continuous point of use treatment systems and the wide availability of the required pieces made them a sustainable technology for other areas in the …
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Food deserts and household food insecurity in the informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia
Rapid urbanization and rising urban poverty characterize much of Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century. Africa's urban transition provides the context within which this thesis examines the causes and consequences of poverty and food insecurity in the growing informal settlements of Windhoek, …
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A multidimensional community development model for resettlement communitites: a case study in the Phillipines
The density and growing population in urban areas have led to an increasing number of slum communities amongst environments with scarce resources and hazardous living conditions. In order to revitalize and modernize urban area, governments have begun relocating and resettling slum communities to …
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Financial systems and risk management : the nature and role of financial services for managing poor urban livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda in 2000
The concept of urban poverty has developed from a static income-based absolute approach to a holistic dynamic and complex state, embedded in livelihood assets and a vulnerability context. A variety of livelihood assets including labour, housing, intra-household, human and social capital are …
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Trauma, Dissociation, and Traumatic Stress at a Trauma Center Serving Low-Income Children and Adolescents
… of children and adolescents in impoverished, urban communities. This study explored the relationships among trauma, dissociation, and posttraumatic stress in a clinic-referred sample of children and adolescents living in urban poverty. Trauma was investigated broadly, including a range of …
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Grassroots mapping : tools for participatory and activist cartography
… tools and information play an important role in urban planning and policymaking, and maps have diverse uses in legal, environmental, political, land rights, and social arenas. Widespread participation in mapmaking and access to its benefits is limited by obscure and expensive tools and …
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Decoding urban inequality : the applications of machine learning for mapping inequality in cities of the Global South
… monitor deepening spatial inequalities. Current urban poverty assessments rely on census data, poverty maps or slum demarcation maps, however, for city planning, these are subject to limitations. It is important to note that while the world is undergoing this immense change in its ecology, we are …
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