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Participatory slum upgrading as a disjunctive process in Recife, Brazil: Urban coproduction and the absent ground of the city

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2016
This article engages with the coproduction of urban space by focusing on a slum upgrading project in Recife, Brazil. It argues that the urban situation is essentially inconsistent, unpredictable and unstable. It documents the history of urban planning in Recife, paying special attention to the coexistence of two different planning traditions, one aimed
P. D. Vries
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Participatory incremental slum upgrading towards sustainability: an assessment of slum dwellers’ willingness and ability to pay for utility services

Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2017
The concept of participatory slum upgrading has received attention in the conventional literature because it ensures and promotes the sustainability of slum-upgrading programmes. In participatory slum-upgrading programmes, slum dwellers are treated as partners, instead of recipients of the services that are provided to mitigate their deprivations.
Eric Oduro-Ofori, Owusu Amponsah
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Employment creation through participatory urban planning and slum upgrading: The case of Kitale, Kenya

Habitat International, 2008
Abstract This paper reviews the experience of an action research project that aimed to improve the living conditions and lives of urban poor communities in three slums in Kitale, Kenya. The project set out to test whether a participatory planning approach and the creation of partnerships between slum communities and the public, private and NGO ...
M. Majale
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The perversity of the ‘Citizenship Game’: Slum-upgrading in the urban periphery of Recife, Brazil

Critique of Anthropology, 2013
This article analyses the effects of slum upgrading on the lives of slum dwellers, especially on their position in society and their relation with the state. It zooms in on the implementation of Prometrópole, a World Bank-funded slum upgrading project in
Monique Nuijten
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Locating Party Politics and Grassroots Activism in Participatory Slum Upgrading: Insights from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Development and Change
ABSTRACT Literature on participatory slum upgrading often simplifies the political landscape of informal settlements, portraying them as homogeneous communities, and focuses instead on infrastructure, housing, tenure regularization, participatory design and project implementation.
Joaquin Benitez
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Participatory Slum Upgrading and Community-based Development: Practices and Challenges

The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, 2015
B. Natakun
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COVID-19 in Angola’s Slums: Providing Evidence and a Roadmap for Participatory Slum Upgrading in Pandemic Times

City development (Singapore. Online), 2023
Allan Cain
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The Rocinha Favela as a Paradigmatic Case Study of Informal Settlements in Large Cities: Current Situation and Past Slum-Upgrading Programmes

, 2020
Located between two of the wealthiest neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro, on a surface of less than 2 km2, the Rocinha favela is considered the largest single slum in Brazil, with an unofficial population between 150,000 and 200,000 inhabitants.
Pietro Ceppi, G. Masera, M. Tadi, A. M. G. Rossi   +3 more
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From Preamble to Post-project Frustrations: The Shaping of a Slum Upgrading Project in Recife, Brazil

, 2012
This article presents an ethnography of the evolution of Prometr´opole, a slum upgrading project in the Brazilian city of Recife. The project aims to improve the urban infrastructure, eradicate slums and resettle the population.We focus on the project’s ...
M. Koster, M. Nuijten
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