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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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Towards Strategic Planning Implementation for Egyptian Cities
Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2018 Strategic urban planning plays a real and significant role in developing the urban areas worldwide because it helps in mitigating the loss of lands; especially in diversion of urban growth away from the “agricultural lands”.
Marwa Ahmed Soliman
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Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2021 Background: Quality of care (QoC) of family planning (FP) affects contraceptive use, and it varies across types of urban settlement. This study assesses the difference in service delivery point (SDP) structural and process factors between formal and ...
Zubair Lukyamuzi +8 more
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Buildings, 2023 There is a need to understand the complex nature of informal settlements to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 11: “Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”.
Eman El Nachar, Doaa Abouelmagd
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FORMS OF INFORMALITY AND ADAPTATIONS IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS [PDF]
International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR, 2016 Informal settlements have become integral to the urban imagery of the cities across the global South. Forms of urban informality emerge and grow through some generative processes of self-organisation and incremental adaptations. While formal interventions have often failed to put an end to such a resilient and complex type of urbanism, the desire for ...
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Explaining the effective physical criteria in promoting resilience of informal settlements in the face of environmental hazards (Case study: Hamadan) [PDF]
مخاطرات محیط طبیعی, 2023 The vulnerability of informal settlements to environmental hazards reveals the importance of paying attention to resilience. Resilience is considered a form of foresight due to the dynamic nature of society's response to risks. Accordingly, this issue is
Hassan Hekmatnia +3 more
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Mapping informal settlement indicators using object-oriented analysis in the Middle East
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2019 Mapping informal settlements is crucial for resource and utility management and planning. In 2003, the UN-Habitat developed a process for mapping and monitoring urban inequality to support reporting against the sustainable development goals (SDGs ...
Ahmad Fallatah +3 more
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Evaluating procedural modelling for 3D models of informal settlements in urban design activities
South African Journal of Science, 2015 Three-dimensional (3D) modelling and visualisation is one of the fastest growing application fields in geographic information science. 3D city models are being researched extensively for a variety of purposes and in various domains, including urban ...
Victoria Rautenbach +3 more
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The effects of climate change on informal settlements
Town and Regional Planning, 2023 Informal settlements have played a significant role in providing the urban poor with access to shelter and close proximity to the economic opportunities in the large urban centres.
Nokwenama James
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Information and immigrant settlement
Journal of Development EconomicsWe 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 +4 more
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