“Transition Phase” water supply interventions in low-income urban settlements: Kenya [PDF]
, 2013 A multitude of transitional water supply and distribution interventions are continually piloted in Kenya’s fast-growing urban settlements to meet national and global MDG targets, yet visible problems persist regardless of the investments made.
Chakava, Yolanda
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The Lancet Global Health, 2022 Background: Housing insecurity is a pervasive challenge in the cities and urban areas of low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in the informal settlements where disproportionately high number of urban residents live.
Godfred O Boateng, PhD +1 more
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Socio-cultural factors related to the tendency toward superstition among women living in the suburbs of Yazd [PDF]
مطالعات اجتماعی روانشناختی زنان, 2021 Superstition and superstitious beliefs are among the important concerns today to the extent that they could be considered social and cultural issues as they can influence human social life.
SeyedAlireza Afshani +1 more
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Радиационная гигиена, 2020 Starting from 2014, several cases of exceedance of the specific total alpha-activity of the natural radionuclides and specific activity of 222Rn were identified in the water of the underground wells in the eastern districts of the Orenburg region.
T. A. Kormanovskaya +6 more
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Assessment of the Life Quality in New Agropolitans Case study: Banvareh in Kermanshah Province [PDF]
جغرافیا و توسعه, 2016 In most of developing countries, the tendency of programmers to spatial decentralization, reduction of regional inequalities and urban and rural duality in recent decades has led to adopt different strategies in this regard. One of the most important of
Alireza Darbanastaneh, Manije Mahmoudi
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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]
, 2013 The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
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Evaluating the Impact of Factors of Crime Prevention through Environmental design on Perception of Security of Residents (Case Study: Toos Dehestan) [PDF]
پژوهشهای راهبردی مسائل اجتماعی ایران, 2019 Introduction Since the past, it was emphasized on the built-environmental aspect of a village in order to ensure its security against the entry of enemies. Therefore, the security measures had been taken in the architecture and design of streets.
Aida Sadrossadat +2 more
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The location of Zibashahr small city in comparison with mobarakeh city in rural and Urban linkage (Case study: Rural settlements the South Gorken county of Mobarakeh township) [PDF]
کاوشهای جغرافیایی مناطق بیابانی, 2021 Links are identifying according to individuals ongoing current, invest, goods, information and technology between urban-rural areas. Villages and cities have links and communication with different ways.
mohammad reza shafiee, manijeh ahmadi
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Empowerment of informal settlements with emphasis on good urban governance indicators (Case study: Babil city) [PDF]
کاوشهای جغرافیایی مناطق بیابانیIntroductionThe history of dealing with informal settlement goes back to the writings of thinkers such as Marshall Clinard, Robert Park, John Turner and Charles Abrams.
fatemeh allahgholitabar +4 more
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Informal urban settlements and cholera risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2010 BACKGROUND: As a result of poor economic opportunities and an increasing shortage of affordable housing, much of the spatial growth in many of the world's fastest-growing cities is a result of the expansion of informal settlements where residents live ...
Werema, Japhet +29 more
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