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Community Participation in Slum Upgrading Projects: A Case of Nairobi Slums [PDF]
The proliferation of slums in Kenya is largely attributed to rapid urbanisation. Most of these slums are shaped by a history of un-equitable and undefined urban development policies.
Muthiani, Diana
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Diversity, justice and slum upgrading: An intersectional approach to urban development [PDF]
Slum upgrading interventions often assume that all residents have similar aspirations and needs. However, these neighbourhoods rank among the most unequal settlements, and interventions can create winners and losers.
Rigon, Andrea
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Ninety percent of the people added to the planet over the next 30 years will live in African and Asian cities, and a large portion of these populations will reside in deprived neighborhoods defined by slum conditions, informal settlement, or inadequate ...
Dana R. Thomson +19 more
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Defining Integration of Climate Adaptation Strategies into Slum Upgrading: A Literature Review.
Under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) no.11: make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable; the slum is the main target for this effort.
A. A. Wicaksono, A. Suprapti, Sunarti
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GLOBAL SLUM UPGRADING PRACTICES: IDENTIFYING THE CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
Over the years, human settlement experts have utilized a number of intervention strategies for integrating slums and informal neighbourhoods into their larger urban context.
Anthony C. O. IWEKA, Anthony K. ADEBAYO
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Slum Conditions in Haryana and Pro-poor Housing Initiatives in Faridabad, India
Rapid urbanization forces urban poor to live in slums and squatter settlement. In neo-liberal development approach, participatory planning and collaborative actions are becoming popular in slum upgrading programmes. This paper discusses the slum scenario
Nirmala
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Advancing Social Capital through Participatory Approaches
Social capital discourse has come to be the foremost and essential aspects in achieving sustainable development, participatory democracy and just cities.
Muhammad Nelza Mulki Iqbal
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This Note aims to provide a step-by-step guide for the World Bank (the Bank hereafter) teams to identify and support opportunities for community participation across various types of slum upgrading.
World Bank
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Functional Fiction to Collective Action: Speculative Participatory Serious Urban Design Gaming to Enhance Slum-upgrading Processes [PDF]
<p>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 participatory design processes, the ability to harness the collective intelligence of people to work
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Barriers and opportunities for participatory environmental upgrading: Case study of Havelock informal settlement, Durban [PDF]
Urbanisation is one of the key challenges of this decade with 68% of the global population likely to be living in urban areas by 2050. This challenge is particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa where future towns and cities will see an influx of ...
Georgiadou, M. +4 more
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