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How should ‘informal settlement’ be understood in Beijing China? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Informal settlements have become an essential part of urban habitation patterns both globally and in China. This research reviews the interaction of industrialisation, urbanisation, migration and the informal economy alongside institutional factors that ...
Ge, Ling
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Platforms for the urban poor:Platform frugality in Mathare informal settlement

open access: yes
Limited attention has been paid to platforms in informal settlements, where residents face multiple, simultaneous resource constraints. We address this challenge by elucidating how informal settlement residents use platforms to address resource ...
Fransen, Jan   +4 more
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Climate change, informal settlement governance and justice-oriented urban adaptation in Ngozi mine, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

open access: yesDiscover Cities
Informal settlements across the Global South are increasingly exposed to climate-related risks while remaining marginalized within formal urban governance and climate adaptation planning. This study examines the relationship between climate vulnerability,
Witness Dlamini, Vusisizwe Ncube
doaj   +1 more source

Settlement risk under gross and net settlement [PDF]

open access: yes
Previous comparative analyses of gross and net settlement have focused on the credit risk of the central counterparty in net settlement arrangements and on the incentives for participants to alter the risk of the portfolio under net settlement.
Charles M. Kahn   +2 more
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Plan of Shanghai [cartographic material]

open access: yes, 1928
This is a reduced copy of the official plan published by the Municipal Council in April 1928, coloured and marked for the purpose of showing the historical particulars required.
Shanghai (China : International Settlement). Municipal Council.
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THE VIABILITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT INFORMAL SETTLEMENT

open access: yes, 2011
MM - P&DMThe South African local government is under constant criticism for its inability to deliver low cost housing to poor citizens who do not own houses, and who end up living in hazardous environments such as shallow mine dumps.
MALOKA, J NKOANA
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Design and Making Epistemology: Critical Engagement via the African Informal Settlement

open access: yes
A poster describing a participatory design-build project for a small public space in Khayelitsha informal settlement in Cape Town. See full poster.
Tom Sanya (16424967)
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Frequency of Antimicrobial Resistance Among Fecal Bacteria Pathogens in an Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, 2018 to 2020. [PDF]

open access: yesMicroorganisms
Juma B   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Informal settlement dwellers and environmental problems .

open access: yes, 2005
Past and current experiences indicate that informal settlements will persist for quite sometime. The paper adopts the use of informal settlements to avoid negative connotations associated with other terms.
Muzvidziwa, Victor N.
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