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Highlighting concealed communities: detection of urban informal settlements using space syntax method, fuzzy model, and high-resolution imagery

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The rapid expansion of informal settlements poses a critical challenge to urbanization and underscores the urgent need for innovative and precise methods to map and monitor this global problem.
Farhad Hosseinali, Aref Namvari, Alireza Sharifi, Hamidreza Rabiei-Dastjerdi   +3 more
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The efficacy of roof-based adaptations to reduce heat stress exposure in informal dwellings

Acta Structilia
While climate change represents a universal threat to the sustainable growth efforts globally, its impacts are not experienced equally with marginalised population groups, especially informal settlement residents, being highly exposed to its negative ...
Ethan Viljoen , Jan Hugo
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A holistic framework to improve urban flood management in cities with informal settlements

Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
Urban flooding is being exacerbated by climate change and rapid urbanisation. Informal settlements often disproportionately experience the negative impacts of flooding due to their location, perceived transience, and socio-economic vulnerabilities.
Hannah Tillermuir, Lara Carboni, Cody Hotchin, Harrison Lal, Rosie Morrison   +4 more
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Informal Settlements and Human Health

, 2018
Informal 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
Jason Corburn, Alice Sverdlik, Sverdlik, Alice; id_orcid, Corburn, Jason   +3 more
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Adaptive housing mechanisms within resettlement sites: a case study of Ouled M’Barek resettlement program, Kenitra, Morocco

Urban, Planning and Transport Research
Resettlement programs, integral to the ‘Villes Sans Bidonvilles’ (Cities without Slums) initiative, aim to rehouse populations from informal settlements to serviced allotments.
Ouassim Bensouda, Iman Meriem Benkirane, Vincent Becue, Jérémy Cenci   +3 more
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Development and disappointment : an ethnographic study of Kosovo informal settlement's water and sanitation system upgrade [PDF]

, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-73).In the context of rapid urbanisation and growing numbers of informal settlements in peri-urban areas of Cape Town, South Africa, a development project was undertaken by the municipality, to provide Kosovo ...
Beauclair, Roxanne
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Community-led vs. subsidised housing. Lessons from informal settlements in Durban

Rapid urbanisation, poverty and socio-economic inequalities are causes of the backlog of informal settlements in South Africa, as dwellers cannot access formal housing schemes. Such unplanned settlements often need more basic services, social facilities,
Georgiadou, M., Loggia, C.
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Household surveys in four informal settlements in Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) and Nairobi (Kenya)

Description: Latest release of data (anonymized) collected in informal settlements in Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya during my PhD thesis, with the respective metadata (questionnaire files).
Pessoa Colombo, Vitor
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Predictors and risk factors of typhoid fever in urban informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis
Kavai SM, Mbae C, Mugo M, Kariuki M, Imoli D, Kawira M, Muturi P, Kebenei C, Kering K, Njuguna A, Kariuki S.   +10 more
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Hydroxyurea treatment for sickle cell disease in Nairobi informal settlements: a retrospective cohort study. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
De Vita MV, Mwau M, Omoding A, Njogu W, Morino G, Mulongo CM, Aigner A, Oevermann L.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source