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Informal Land Rights and Infrastructure Retrofit: A Typology of Land Rights in Informal Settlements
Land, 2021 Informal settlements represent a challenging operational context for local government service providers due to precarious contextual conditions. Location choice and land procurement for public infrastructure raise the complicated question: who has the ...
Mahsa Mesgar, Diego Ramirez-Lovering
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Big Earth Data, 2021 The detection of informal settlements is the first step in planning and upgrading deprived areas in order to leave no one behind in SDGs. Very High-Resolution satellite images (VHR), have been extensively used for this purpose.
Zahra Assarkhaniki +2 more
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Island Studies Journal, 2016 This paper reviews the compatibility of government programmes for regularising or relocating informal settlements situated in a growing tourism space in Jamaica, a small island developing state (SIDS).
Sheere Brooks
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Spatial Distribution and Trend of Informal Settlements Based on Multi-Source Open Data
Redai diliInformal settlements generally refer to low-quality residential areas built without government permission and characterized by poverty and insufficient basic services.
Zhu Jingyi, Chen Shuang
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Understanding change through urban morphological studies of informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya [PDF]
, 2013 textInformal human settlements, often so large that they are cities onto themselves, have been absent from urban morphological study. As the population of the urban world grows, hundreds of millions of people live in informal settlements.
Flemister, Lauren Sheagbe
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Social Inclusion, 2020 With many cities in the Global South experiencing immense growth in informal settlements, city authorities frequently try to assert control over these settlements and their inhabitants through coercive measures such as threats of eviction, exclusion ...
Kazi Nazrul Fattah, Peter Walters
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, 2021 Across sub-Saharan Africa, 238 million people live in slums or informal settlements. Because of rapid urbanisation and population growth, informal settlements have become a major challenge in the urban landscape, exacerbating issues related to poverty ...
Georgiadou, Maria Christina +7 more
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Examining the feasiblity of informal settlement flood early warning systems : focus on the urban flood-risk experience of Kosovo and Masiphumelele residents, Cape Town South Africa [PDF]
, 2011 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-117).This thesis examines the feasibility of applying people-centred approaches to flood early warning systems (EWS) in informal settlements in the City of Cape Town, particularly, through the experiences ...
Solomon, F J, Solomon, F.J .
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Improving informal settlements for community development in Cape Town
Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance ReviewBackground: Informal settlements are a common phenomenon on the peripheries of South African urban centres. These settlements often lack proper sanitation, healthcare facilities, educational facilities, clean energy sources and social well-being ...
Nosiphosethu Brandau, Tendency Beretu
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Jurnal Wilayah dan Lingkungan, 2013 Suburbanization is a process to shape built areas as an impact urban development expansion (Wiratmaja, 2002:33). The real form of suburbanization is shift settlements activity towards suburban area.
Wily Alfi Gustiana
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