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Social capital and participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok, Thailand

Habitat International, 2013
This study applies the concept of social capital to participatory slum upgrading, specifically the Baan Mankong (“secure housing”) programme in Bangkok. The Baan Mankong programme uses community participation to meet the housing needs of the urban poor, with financial assistance from the state.
core   +4 more sources

TOWARDS GOOD GOVERNANCE IN UPGRADING DEPRIVED AREAS: AN APPROACH TO EMPOWER PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT IN EGYPT

Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ), 2021
Slums are a problem facing the whole world as a result of poor housing policies and rapid urbanization. Previous Egyptian housing policies created the problem of slums from scratch.
M. S. ali
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Community Mobilization for Slum Upgrading through Sanitation in Roma Informal Settlements in the Paris Region. [PDF]

Front Public Health, 2017
Background Community-based processes addressing environment, housing, and health issues may decrease health inequities by addressing social, economic, and political health determinants more effectively. Yet little analysis of their effectiveness has been
Chaudhuri IN.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Functional Fiction to Collective Action: Speculative Participatory Serious Urban Design Gaming to Enhance Slum-upgrading Processes

, 2020
People who are marginalised in slum-upgrading processes can benefit from participatory design strategies. When marginalised slum communities confront and explore conflicting perspectives, values, assumptions and goals through negotiation within ...
Hamish Beattie
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Does Participatory Slum upgrading really work? Piloting local area planning in Lusaka Zambia

Proceedings of the 57th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, 2021
Wilma S. Nchito, Bwalya E. Funga
openaire   +2 more sources

Formalisation of the Informal: Can Vertical Community Spaces Enable Equitable High-Density Slum Upgrades in Bangkok?

Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs
By 2050, nearly 68% of the global population will reside in urban areas, while 1.6 billion people already inhabit informal settlements lacking tenure security, basic services, and public space. This study explores whether vertically integrated community
Adrian Lo, Toan Le Phuc
doaj   +2 more sources

Learning from Slum Upgrading and Participation : A case study of participatory slum upgrading in the emergence of new governance in the city of Medellín–Colombia

, 2008
The thesis was not publishes (printed) by the department. The copy I am uploading is the final version accepted by the department.
Calderon, Camilo
openaire   +2 more sources

Urban Slum Upgrading and Participatory Governance (PG): An investigation into the role of slum community-based institutions in tackling the challenges of slums in developing nations the case of Lagos state, Nigeria

, 2013
This study looks at the role of slum upgrading, political culture, power structure and how these factors affect participation in slum upgrading in Makoko, Lagos. It also investigates how community-based institutions participate in identification of slum challenges, design action plans on curbing the challenges, implementation and monitoring of the ...
EHIGIATOR, PAUL
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Slum Upgrading and Health Equity [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2017
Jason Corburn, Alice Sverdlik, Corburn Jason   +2 more
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Activism Among Bureaucrats: Creative Social Housing Work in a Conservative Institutional Setting

Brazilian Political Science Review, 2022
How can activist bureaucrats unexpectedly influence policy outcomes? What strategies do these actors adopt in order to defend and implement public policies in institutional settings unfavorable to their ideas?
Mariana Costa Silveira
doaj   +1 more source