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Overestimation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Household Transmission in Settings of High Community Transmission: Insights From an Informal Settlement Community in Salvador, Brazil. [PDF]
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Informal Settlements: Domain Report [PDF]
SSRN Electronic JournalThis working paper is a synthesis of findings from seven city domain studies whichemployed the African Cities Research Consortium’s (ACRC’s) conceptual framework toprovide new insights into the challenges faced by informal settlement residents inAfrican cities, and proposed ways in which those challenges might be addressed.
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Latin American Perspectives, 2002
The informal settlements orfavelas characterizing the cities of Brazil are visible evidence that the political-economic system does not adequately serve the urban population. How has society responded to this constant reminder in urban spatial form? How are these responses translated into intervention policies, and how have these in turn allowed the ...
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The informal settlements orfavelas characterizing the cities of Brazil are visible evidence that the political-economic system does not adequately serve the urban population. How has society responded to this constant reminder in urban spatial form? How are these responses translated into intervention policies, and how have these in turn allowed the ...
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2023
Informal settlements and slums are the most pervasive modes of urbanization on the planet, housing up to 2 billion people and absorbing most rural-to-urban migration worldwide. This presents architects, urban planners, and everyone working to improve the lives of the world’s urban poor, with a uniquely complex and urgent challenge.
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Informal settlements and slums are the most pervasive modes of urbanization on the planet, housing up to 2 billion people and absorbing most rural-to-urban migration worldwide. This presents architects, urban planners, and everyone working to improve the lives of the world’s urban poor, with a uniquely complex and urgent challenge.
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Effort, Information, Settlement, Trial
The Journal of Legal Studies, 1995Given the costs of litigation and the availability of pretrial discovery, the question arises why some cases fail to settle at any time in the pretrial period. To examine this problem, the article develops a model of litigation and settlement in which the efforts the parties invest in the case (1) partly determine the strength of the plaintiff's claim ...
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2018
This chapter takes a closer look at the people- vs. place-prosperity distinction as a way of conceptualizing enablement in informal settlements. While Winnick popularized this distinction as a formal regional planning apparatus during the 1960s, the pros and cons of its relevance to informal settlements are discussed here. Whether physical upgrading in
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This chapter takes a closer look at the people- vs. place-prosperity distinction as a way of conceptualizing enablement in informal settlements. While Winnick popularized this distinction as a formal regional planning apparatus during the 1960s, the pros and cons of its relevance to informal settlements are discussed here. Whether physical upgrading in
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Realising Rights in Complex Informal Settlements Contexts
2023Spatial governance in Kenyan cities has been practised in a manner that is exclusionary and that denies certain groups access to resources and opportunities. In Nairobi, land tenure has been used to craft an exclusionary idea of urban citizenship. Eligibility to participate in spatial governance has been made conditional on having formally recognised ...
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Civil Sector Institutions and Informal Settlements
2012In low- and middle-income nations, civil society institutions have far more importance in the design and construction of urban housing and in the provision of housing-related infrastructure than in high-income nations. This is because so much housing provision is in informal settlements in which the state and formal building enterprises have little ...
Mitlin, D., Satterthwaite, D.
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Urbanisation and informal settlements
Development Southern Africa, 1989(1989). Urbanisation and informal settlements. Development Southern Africa: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 522-523.
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Bioclimatic Design for Informal Settlements
2017In this paper, a review of the reasons hindering the use of bioclimatic design principles in informal settlements is attempted and the perspective of bioclimatic design in those contexts is discussed. Among the main candidate reasons is the habit of mind induced by the belief that informal settlements grow organically, so as to invariably end up being ...
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