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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 The concentration of urban violence in certain settlements in Latin America and the possibility of expansion have been latent concerns in slum upgrading.
Claudio Beato, César Velásquez
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Everyday resistance: exposing the complexities of participatory slum-upgrading projects in Nagpur
Housing Studies, 2019 This paper exposes practices of informal, everyday resistance by slum-dwellers against the implementation of large-scale public housing projects in India.
Simon De Nys-Ketels
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Determined Slum Upgrading: A Challenge to Participatory Planning in Nanga Bulik, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia [PDF]
Sustainability, 2017 Indonesia has committed to accomplish “cities without slum” target in 2019 through the national program of Action Planning for Preventing and Improving the Quality of Urban Slum Settlements (RP2KPKP) launched in 2015. Nanga Bulik town in Kabupaten (Regency) Lamandau of Central Kalimantan Province is among those included in the program; the RP2KPKP of ...
Edi Purwanto, Agung Sugiri
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Self-help or public housing? Lessons from co-managed slum upgrading via participatory budget [PDF]
Habitat International, 2016 Abstract What can the Participatory Budget (PB) teach us about slum upgrading in the cities of the Global South? This article describes the process of slum upgrading via PB in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Participatory budgeting _PB is a renowned mechanism of resource allocation that transfers decision-making power over the capital expenditure portion of ...
Ana Paula Pimentel Walker
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Segregated Neighbourhoods and Their Integration Attempts: Participatory Slum-Upgrading in the Making [PDF]
International Academic Conference on Places and Technologies, 2020 As the proliferation of informal settlements has gained pace around the world, often coupled with spatial and social segregation, the global community has made efforts to provide a set of norms to tackle the issue.
Tímea Csaba
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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2023 Abstract Surakarta has put a lot of effort into promoting civic engagement. Numerous projects have been taken out since 2017 to help the local government with the upgrading of the slum community on the Kali Pepe and Bengawan Solo River riverbanks. The initiation comes from grass root programme.
K N Handayani, A Dianingrum
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Institutionalizing participatory slum upgrading: a case study of urban co-production from Afghanistan, 2002–2016 [PDF]
Environment and Urbanization, 2018 Institutionalizing slum upgrading as part of government-led citywide or national programmes can overcome the limitations of piecemeal, “bottom-up”, ad-hoc upgrading projects. This article presents a case study of 15 years of practice to institutionalize participatory slum upgrading in Afghanistan.
Matthew French +4 more
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Urbanisation, 2023 A global shift in urban slum improvement programmes is underway to step beyond the conventional approach by practicing a more participatory approach. Previous studies have found that slum upgrading projects are likely to be ineffective and unsustainable ...
Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan +2 more
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Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management, 2016 The most prominent problem of rapid urbanism in Harare is the development of slums and Epworth is a notable example. The quality of planning and decision making in the participatory slum upgrading initiative can be sustainably improved by well managed processes of spatial and socio-economic data collection.
Togarepi, S, Masarira, TP, Phiri, L
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