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Placemaking in Informal Settlements: The Case of France Colony, Islamabad, Pakistan

Urban Science, 2021
This paper provides an alternative perspective on urban informal settlements by analysing them as places of rural remnants, reservoirs of regional cultural heritage, and spaces entailing traditional sustainable elements that are brought to the urban ...
Ramisa Shafqat, Dora Marinova, Shahed Khan   +2 more
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The Analysis of Key Factors Influencing the Expansion of Rural Migration with Eemphasis on the Issue of Informal Settlement (Case Study: Shirabad Neighborhood in Zahedan) [PDF]

Pizhūhish va barnāmah/rīzī-i rūstāyī, 2020
Purpose- Informal settlement is largely rooted in migration, particularly influenced by parameters such as poverty, lack of expertise and specialization, type of occupation, cultural conflict, illiteracy, ethnic and cultural identity.
Mohsen Saghaei, Seyyed Reza Azadeh, Fahimeh Fadaeijazi, Fatemeh Jafari   +3 more
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DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT INDICATORS IN IDENTIFYING INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS USING THE MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2023
Informal settlement is one of the most common forms of urbanization, increasing every day all over the world, especially in developing countries. One of the important topics informal settlements studies is the measurement of indicators that can identify ...
A. Namvari, F. Hosseinali, A. Sharifi, H. Rabiei-Dastjerdi   +3 more
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The Formal, the Informal, and the Precarious: Making a Living in Urban Papua New Guinea [PDF]

, 2020
For many Papua New Guineans, the dominant accounts of 'the economy' contained within development reports, government documents and the media do not adequately reflect their experiences of making a living.
Cox, John, Lusby, Stephanie, Rooney, Michelle, Sharp, Timothy, Spark, Ceridwen   +4 more
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Data Are Power: Addressing the Power Imbalance Around Community Data with the Open-Access Data4HumanRights Curriculum

Societies
Data4HumanRights’ training materials have been developed as open-source and tailored to limited-resource settings, where community data collectors often live and work.
Monika Kuffer, Dana R. Thomson, Dianne Wakonyo, Nicera Wanjiru Kimani, Divyani Kohli-Poll Jonker, Enyo Okoko, Rasak Toheeb, Bisola Akinmuyiwa, Mohammed Zanna, Dezyno Imole, Andrew Maki   +10 more
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Community Mediators in South Sudan: Empirical Legitimacy and Post-conflict Rule of Law Building

Utrecht Law Review, 2023
The scholarship on legitimacy of dispute settlement institutions has largely ignored community mediation institutions operating in the global south. This article aims to remedy that gap, through a case study of community mediation groups in South Sudan ...
Janine Marisca Ubink, Bernardo Ribeiro de Almeida   +1 more
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On handling urban informality in southern Africa [PDF]

, 2013
In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality and that this is fuelled by an obsession with urban modernity.
AAPS, Abdoul M., Amin A., Amin Y. Kamete, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Bauman Z., Bayat A., Beall J., Berman M., Blunch N.‐H., Bromley R., Bromley R., Butcher C., Caldeira T. P. R., Campbell E. K., Castells M., CHRA, CITY of HARARE, CITY of HARARE, Cresswell T., de soto H., Foucault M., Friedman E., García canclini N., Ghertner D. A., Gospodini A., Gueye C., Hansen K. T., Hart K., Holston J., ILO, Jimu I. M., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kayuni H. M., King K., Legg S., Lindell I., Lindell I., Llobera J. R., Maloney W. F., Marcuse H., Meagher K., Misztal B. A., Misztal B. A., Mooya M. M., Moser C. O. N., MPSLSW, MPSLSW, Mubvami T., Odendaal N., Popke E. J., Prakash G., Rakodi C., Rakodi C., Robins S., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Rupiya M., Samers M., Sandercock L., SDI, SDI, Simone A., Simone A., Simone A., Stern R. E., Stren R. E., Swilling M., Thomas J., Tibaijuka A. K., Tipple A. G., Tokman V. E., UN‐HABITAT, UN‐HABITAT, Watson V., Watson V., Wekwete K. H., Yiftachel O.   +83 more
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Trapped in the prison of the mind: notions of climate-induced (im)mobility decision-making and wellbeing from an urban informal settlement in Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2020
The concept of Trapped Populations has until date mainly referred to people ‘trapped’ in environmentally high-risk rural areas due to economic constraints.
A Baldwin, A Ezeh, A Hjälm, A Sherbinin De, A Unger, A Woodward, B Etzold, B Gray, B Mberu, BW Wekesa, D Mata-Codesal, DB Cook, DD Heckathorn, DD Heckathorn, DG Ockwell, E Boyd, ED Sclar, J Barnett, J Barry, J Brace-Govan, J Butler, J Carling, J Hugé, J Previte, J Wolf, JS Dryzek, K Blanchet, K Kanim, KE McNamara, LA Goodman, LCE Morinière, LM Hunter, M Foucault, M Foucault, M Foucault, M Kurant, M Toyota, MA Rahaman, MC Morales, MD Cattaneo, MM Islam, MMH Khan, MSI Mullick, N Adri, N Fairclough, N Fairclough, N Watts, N Watts, NM Butala, P Adey, P Schwerdtle, P Stenner, P Tschakert, PK De, R Black, R Black, R Black, RB Ruback, RB Ruback, RJ Lilford, S Akhter, S Ayeb-Karlsson, S Ayeb-Karlsson, S Niemeyer, S Watts, SH Eriksen, SR Brown, SR Brown, T Izutsu, TJ Fitch, TJ Fitch, UNFCCC, UNFCCC, W Stephenson, W Stephenson, WN Adger   +75 more
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“Kampung” as a Formal and Informal Integration Model (Case Study: Kampung Pahandut, Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia)

Forum Geografi, 2017
Kampung is a mixed formal and informal settlements which has a long history. Kampung has always been occupied by millions of in Indonesia. Kampung shows its capacity to integrate formal and informal activities both within the kampung itself and ...
Noor Hamidah, R Rijanta, Bakti Setiawan, Muh. Aris Marfai   +3 more
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The Political Economy of Inclusive Growth [PDF]

, 2012
An Application of Political Settlements to the case of ...
Khan, Mushtaq
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