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Proximal design in South African informal settlements: users as designers and the construction of the built environment and its fire risks

Tapuya, 2020
Informal settlements present a challenge for fire safety because they lack the regulation of building standards that have been central to reducing fire risks elsewhere.
Graham Spinardi, S.J. Cooper-Knock, David Rush   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geospatial information needs for informal settlement upgrading – a review [PDF]

, 2022
Accurate, current and complete information is indispensable for any effective intervention to upgrade a slum or informal settlement. Our involvement in supporting informal settlement upgrades with geospatial information prompted us to investigate what we
Tjia, Dinao, Coetzee, Serena Martha
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

“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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Asthma symptoms, spirometry and air pollution exposure in schoolchildren in an informal settlement and an affluent area of Nairobi, Kenya. [PDF]

Thorax, 2023
Background Although 1 billion people live in informal (slum) settlements, the consequences for respiratory health of living in these settlements remain largely unknown. This study investigated whether children living in an informal settlement in Nairobi,
Meme H, Amukoye E, Bowyer C, Chakaya J, Das D, Dobson R, Dragosits U, Fuld J, Gray C, Hahn M, Kiplimo R, Lesosky M, Loh MM, McKendree J, Mortimer K, Ndombi A, Netter L, Obasi A, Orina F, Pearson C, Price H, Quint JK, Semple S, Twigg M, Waelde C, Walnycki A, Warwick M, Wendler J, West SE, Wilson M, Zurba L, Devereux G.   +31 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Information and immigrant settlement

Journal of Development Economics
We study a randomly-assigned program providing information on U.S. settlement for new Filipino immigrants. The intervention, a 2.5-hour pre-departure training and an accompanying paper handbook, has no effect on employment, settlement, and subjective wellbeing, but leads immigrants to acquire substantially fewer social network connections.
Toman Barsbai, Victoria Licuanan, Andreas Steinmayr, Erwin Tiongson, Dean Yang   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Atlas of informal settlement : Understanding self-organized urban design

, 2023
While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development.
Oostrum, Matthijs van, Chatterjee, Ishita, Dovey, Kim, Shafique, Tanzil, Pafka, Elek   +4 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
doaj   +1 more source