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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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Informal Settlements and Human Health
2018Informal settlements or slums dominate the urban landscape and in 2016 were the home to almost 900 million people. Global health is now slum health. The determinants of health for slum dwellers are multi-factorial and can vary from country to country and even within the same city.
Corburn, Jason, Sverdlik, Alice
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