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Showing 1 to 20 of 129 for “"Urban poor"”.
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The mobility of the urban poor.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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The urban-poor challenge : delivering services for the urban poor : government organizations versus non-government organizations (NGOs)
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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The Urban Poor, Civic Governmentality and the Problem of Participation
… Network (ISN) and the Federation of the Urban Poor (FEDUP). Through the thesis, I aim to provide an understanding of the nature of civic participation and the formation of "responsible" citizens amongst the urban poor in Khayelitsha, South Africa (Brown, 2015, p. 133). Critical in …
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Managing welfare improvement for urban poor: a case study from Bangkok, Thailand
… purpose of this study was to investigate how the urban poor in Bangkok manage their own development projects. The main objectives were to explore the real needs of the urban poor, the management constraints, opinions on the successfulness of the projects, the possibility for sustainable projects, …
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Housing the urban poor--a case for space-sharing in Ahmedabad, India
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Evaluating alternatives for housing India's urban poor : design studies, model and application in Ahmedabad
… (National) Planning Commission for housing the Urban Poor in India: Upgrading, site and services, and housing. The basis for evaluation is the relationship of the cost of development to the cost of each of the components in development and the number of beneficiaries. The framework for …
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Tenements : dwellings for the urban poor. Comparative study illustrating 28 cases in developing countries
… systems that provide habitation to the poor in most of the urban areas of the developing countries. Yet, tenements are practically ignored if not prohibited by the public sector and consequently banned from any public housing program. This study, which is the first attempt to consider …
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Water for the urban poor : Côte d'Ivoire's experiment with private and informal sector cooperation
The urban poor in developing countries, many of whom live in illegal squatter settlements at the periphery of the city, often have insufficient access to affordable, clean water. Both public and private utilities are often unable or unwilling to install piped water connections in these …
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Competition for the urban poor : urban community development (Crossroads) : the complexities of giving and receiving
… African governments. And in more recent years urbanised Africans in particular have been the targets of increasing levels of development intervention, much of which has been funded and directed through bilateral aid programmes initiated by western governments. It is with those kinds of …
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Shelter for the urban poor : is local government the answer? the case of Lusaka, Zambia
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Re-housing the Urban Poor in Irish Country Towns, 1880-1947: A Case Study of Sligo
Despite the numerous works on the poor housing conditions of Irish famihes from the 1850s to the 1940s, little research has been conducted to date on the provincial Irish towns. In order to closer investigate the dreadful dwelling conditions endured by the Irish urban poor at the start of the …
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Mind Playing Tricks: Individualism, Upward Mobility, and the Commitment to Self-Determination Among the Urban Poor
… embeddedness, and mutual dependence. For the urban poor - facing down long histories of marginalization, reputations for cultural backwardness, and the harmful effects of concentrated poverty – the individualistic character of the American Dream poses an intriguing question: Does adherence to …
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The urban land question : management and access for the urban poor in post apartheid South Africa
… of the thesis is that the developmental use of urban land should be ethical, fair and promote social justice. Using multiple research approaches and mixed methods this thesis examines the urban land question in South Africa and particularly Cape Town where land distribution and ownership are …
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Philippine policy in housing the urban poor : the economic and sociopolitical contexts of public housing policy
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1974.
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The impact of rising electricity tariffs on tariffs on the urban poor : a South African case study
… aims to measure the increases experienced by urban poor households and determine the effect of the increases on their energy choices. It was initiated mainly to address concerns that Eskom’s tariff increases may affect the access and longterm affordability of electricity for the poor. …
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The demand for savings services among the urban poor - evidence from the Khayelitsha panel study (2000-2004)
… deadline. It specified that by 2008, 80% of the poorest half of the South African population (as judged by living standard measures (LSMs)) should have effective access to appropriate savings products and services (National Treasury. 2002:9). Access to retail transaction banking services is the …
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The Contribution of Information and Communication Technology to the wellbeing of the urban poor in South Africa
… and economic inclusion or exclusion of the urban poor in South Africa. This stems from the growing recognition that although mobile phones may be tools for opportunity and development, access to these devices may not be sufficient to ensure that they are used optimally for development. …
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Providing security of tenure to the urban poor : investigating the roots of slum improvement in Hyderabad, India
… is concerned with the relationship between urban land reform and large-scale slum improvement in Hyderabad, India. It forges a link between citywide slum improvement in the 1980s and efforts to guarantee the occupancy rights of squatters a decade earlier. More than twenty-five years have …
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A Social Logic of Energy: A data science approach to understanding and modelling energy transitions of India’s urban poor
… and the inherent spatial inequalities in urban India. This thesis explores the influence of local socio-economic and cultural factors, and household practices and habits, on clean cooking transition with a view to understanding how the associated heterogeneity can be characterised, and …
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